Dye Another Day

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Better late than never. As promised, tales of my experiments with dyeing yarn with ordinary baking and cooking stuff.

My first dye experiment was with red and blue food coloring liquid. I managed to create pastel-colored self-striping yarn (for socks!) but the colors were not what I was going after.

For my second try I wanted to try using organic materials for dyeing: turmeric powder and hibiscus "tea" (infusion really). This was definitely not a raging success since most of colors washed off into muted fall colors and different shades of brown. This yarn needs an interesting stitch pattern to spice it up. I'm thinking about maybe Pomatomus. Or kew. Pomatomus. kew. Can't decide. :P

The third try was with food coloring, again, because I found it much more easier and faster than the "natural" foodstuff dyeing. This also turned into a tutorial on dyeing self-striping, self-patterning yarn. And I sooo wanna make Jaywalkers with this yarn. By now it's obvious I'm suffering from sock addiction, and I did manage to sign in with Summer of Socks 2007. Just look at all the pretty pictures on the Flickr group. Woohoo, my first KAL ever! :D

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