It's my lovely home-dyed yarn, my darlings! I love the process of dye-it-yourself yarn in the extreme, and I am so taken with the end result that I leave the hanks propped up casually yet prominantly around the house in case a stranger wanders through and demands that I create more because I am such an ARTISTE! (Much the same way my best friend Shannon and I wandered around London the length of the summer when we were sixteen, spouting Shakespeare in case a casting director from the Royal Shakespeare Company or Kenneth Brannagh, Ian McKellan, or Alan Rickman happened to be in the vicinity and recognized our undeniable dramatic genious.)
The red yarn is Wool2Dye4's worsted weight, and it's really quite nice, although I haven't knit with it yet. I used Gaywool's Tomato and Cranberry sprinkled directly on the yarn while in the pot, and then added a very little bit of Daisy (yellow) and Indigo in random spots. The other two hanks are Wool2Dye4's superwash sock yarn. For the green one I used Ivy and Lucerne, also with a little bit of Daisy and Indigo sparingly sprinkled throughout. Gaywool is a little pricey, but I love how easy and quick it is to use, and a little goes a long way. The middle one is destined for Germany and my Dye-O-Rama exchange pal. I hope she likes it because it's hard for me to part with it.
6 comments:
Fabulous, Katherine! I love the Gaywool, too. So easy to use. I just dyed some roving using Crabapple and Raspberry. Yum!
Oh Kat, that red is beautiful! So rich and deep, nice work.
PRETTY! Can I buy the red one? Email me!
hey katherine, hows the hand of the superwash sock from wool2dye4? Is it fuzzy, or does it have a nice sheen? can you bring some to snb this tuesday for show and tell?
Very nice!
LOL! I do the same thing when I dye yarn- I leave the hanks I want to rewind out for everyone to admire. Kind of disappointing when visitors don't notice, tho;-)
And, yeah, that's SWEET yarn. And I don't care if the surprise is spoiled:-)
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