Skeined up a ball of white 5 ply wool like I used for the first pair of crochet socks and played around with blue and pink food colourings. I used a similar techinque to the jelly dying and soaked the skein for a couple of hours in 2lts warm water and 1/2c vinegar. Then I mixed up some food colourings at different strengths with water and a splash of vinegar and splodged it over the damp skein of wool. Next I put it into an old casserole dish and microwaved it for 2 mins then allowed a 2 min rest and repeated this 6 times. Then washed it out and let it it dry.
This is what I have ended up with.
I have almost finished some sewing too. But its all a secret lol.
11 comments:
I love how ou dye your own wool. It's so cool!
I love how ou dye your own wool. It's so cool!
that is incredible Katherine, I love hearing about your dying techniques and the results are amazing!
What a wonderful way to dye your own wool Katherine........I love the different colour variations......Lance's socks are coming along nicely too. x
Nice sock. Love the texture.
Pretty yarn you have created - wondering what that will become?
Ooh - secrets, sounds like a busy week.
Enjoy the weekend.
Lovely colour you have dyed your wool...
Love the colour of your dyed wool. Your poor sock looks lonely, has it got a partner yet? Hugs......
Love that wool!
Katherine no wonder I am putting away my yarn & needles!! You are so clever to do that, and the colours have come up so gorgeous, happy knitting!!
such a gorgeous colour you are very clever dying the wool yourself,well done.xx
Great looking sock. Very pretty wool - now to work out what to do with it!
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