Is it dyed or did I kill it?

Posted by – September 15, 2006

So Wednesday is our knitting coven. This week was fun as usual, I worked on the toe of the new socks. My god I can not get over how much I love this yarn. It does what I think a variegated yarn should do…a nicely mottled effect. It also is so much softer than the Lorna’s from the last socks. So after I finished the toe I realized I did not want to have just plain stockinette socks so I decided to try a garter rib. I think it looks great but what do you all think.

Pure delight. I need to learn how dye yarn that swank.

And on that note…Behold my dying adventure.

I am responsible for the one on the left and the dark one in the middle. Claire did the green tinted ones and the orange/red one was done by Judie. Anyway I decided to dye the yarn sort of spur of the moment so we used Wilton dyes. I want to try real dying next. It was a lot of fun but I think it will be better when we have a true red to work with. At anyrate it was a valid learning experience. I should probably start my clap. Maybe I’ll knit up a quick bag this weekend out of the grey based yarn.

1 Comment on Is it dyed or did I kill it?

  1. phil & judie says:

    wow!!!!!!!!!! how much do you charge for those great looking yarns????? this pic replaced our converted cousin from the north see ya wed, phil

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