Hand Dyed Yarn Tutorial

[hermione_jean]

Comments

[mkissa]

Great tutorials.

How do you get the yarn wound up all fancy like that?

[hermione_jean]

Thanks!

Well you can use a niddy noddy like this.

[jennifleur]

Very cool!

[hermione_jean]

Thanks!

[hp5freak]

very awesome!!!

[hermione_jean]

thank ya!

[astrid82]

Looks really fun! I have to try sometime... Can the yarn you use be partly polyester or should it be 100% wool? (If you have any experience with that...) I think colouring yarn for a pair of socks would be a nice start, but then I usually don't use 100% wool yarn to make the socks last longer.

And just because I am curious - does the yarn smell of Kool-aid?

[hermione_jean]

Thanks! It can be partly wool, it doesn't have to be 100%. The color will only take to the wool though, so you'll have spots. But sometimes that looks great. Yes & no on the kool-aid smell. The 1st one I did still smells like cherry grape but I just did it a couple of days ago. They other 2 don't have any kool-aid smell, I did them about 3 months ago. So the smell fades.

[astrid82]

I'll see if I can find any white sock-yarn then! It might actually be hard to find, because I think a lot of people would find it boring! But I'm sure I'll find something :-)

And the idea of koolaid-smelling socks is quite amusing!

[hermione_jean]

It doesn't have to be white either, it could be natural. I've even seen people dye pink, peach, gray, any kind of light color. Of course, it changes the finished color but I know they're still dyeable.