Dying

Yarn that is :p

My mom is working on an art quilt and wanted me to knit lace leaves out of silk for her to use on it. She sent me some recycled sari silk, but it was too thick for what she wanted and just looked like a tangled blob even after blocking. After a lot of confusion about what she actually wanted out of the leaves, I ended up getting some Debbie Bliss Pure Silk (in celery I believe) and dying it.

I didn't do anything fancy, just soaked the skein in vinegar for about 45 minutes, mixed up some food coloring, used a turkey baster to apply the dye and microwaved it until the liquid was clear.

It came out pretty well, I think...



I spent a few hours today doing the same to some fingering weight merino I've had laying around for about a year. The silk was much neater but I can't afford to do that all the time. I'm going to try to sell the sock yarn on Etsy. We'll see how that goes.

I've got two skeins of complimentary teal and pink. One of them got a black spot in the pink somehow, but I don't think it'll matter as much when it's knit up.



I've also done some black/rust/turquoise and I was trying to do grey, but it turned out multicolored and drab. I might still try to sell it, but I'm going to think about it. Neither of those have been rewound so I don't have good pics yet.