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What a face! This is the Blue Face Leicester sheep. I have 14 -50gm skeins of natural sport weight wool, and have decided to dye the natural creamy colour to a sweet
rosy tone.
I used two plastic coffee containers (my
usual dying buckets) and mixed up a slightly diluted wine colour dye. Split into the two buckets, I then
pre-soaked the yarn in warm water....
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this helps the dye to absorb evenly. Then I squeezed out most of the water and dropped 7 skeins into each bucket. They soaked for ten minutes.
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Then I dumped the dye bath and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed.....
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...with a final cold water bath soak for ten minutes. Taking them out and
squeezing gently, I laid them loosely on the drying screen....
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The natural variety in the tones adds to the hand dyed effect. It is due to the fact that I was not
agitating the yarn in the buckets, so it was not completely even dying. I like this.
2 comments:
Ooh-ooh! I LOVE the color that you dyed the yarn! And 14 skeins! I would be in heaven!! What are you planning to knit with it? Blessings,
Hannah, age 12
I just yesterday dyed some yarn peachy-pink with kool-aid. Dyeing is so neat. I love the color you chose!
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