Saturday, November 15, 2008

Like I don't have enough to do already

It seems that whenever I have too much to get done, I find something else that suddenly becomes urgent. Like last weekend when I made several pints of salsa. This weekend, I suddenly found it necessary to cook wool yarn in hot Kool-aid. I blame SavingNine and KBomb for this. They always give me knitting advice that I don't want to follow... but eventually I do. I used the microwave instructions given here and was amazed when I was done with the whole process in less than an hour (except that it's still hanging to dry). I didn't check the time at all, but I was afraid that yarn dyeing could take up half a day. For those who want to know these colors are grape and ice blue raspberry lemonade. My camera really didn't know what to make of that ice blue color.



3 comments:

  1. Um, are you going to tell us WHY you dyed the yarn--did it come in a boring neutral color and you wanted prettier colors to knit with? Inquiring minds want to know...

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  2. Ooooooo! I love being blamed for things. I just finished spinning some yarn that I'm going to try the blue mixed with the grape:) I can't wait to see how it turns out. Part of the wool was from the spray painted part of the sheep (which I learned from you!) and it's already a little blue. Hopefully it will be funkalicious.

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  3. Cool! Where did you get your "bare" yarn? Did it bleed after? Does the color fully set in? I'd love to try that. I have a microwave in teh little hotel room type place I'm staying at. Glad you made it across the plains safely. THat can be scarey in the winter.

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