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03/29/2006
Adventures in Dyeing...
Umm, okay, I thought I'd give dyeing a try last night. I still had a 50g ball of white Regia Stretch (!) in my stash, and had bought some food dye for coloring easter eggs yesterday, so I wound the ball into a strand, soaked it in water, prepared the dy
e and applied it with a spoon. Then the yarn baked in the oven for an hour and voilà:
you're right- ICK! I don't like the colors and it's just NOT well-made. 
It looks less crappy when wound up into a ball (uh, there is no such thing as a center-pull ball out of stretch yarn)...
But really, I don't care much for this color combo. Oh- I forgot to mention what I had in mind when I started with this project: watermelon stripe yarn. LOL!! I started with the green and reddish-burgundy and kept the white in between the two, but after the first hour in the oven it was just so obvious that neither of the colors were ANYWHERE NEAR a watermelon! So I picked a blue to go with the two, but it's only a tad better than before. Eww. This is what you call 'waste yarn'.
But I've learned.
- I need other dyes than easter egg colors OR learn how to properly mix them. How do you get turqoise from red, yellow, orange, green and blue, tho?
- Using WHITE vinegar instead of brown probably helps when you mix the colors
- when the instructions read 'massage into yarn', really massage
- I was going for STIPES. Those require LONG stretches of the same color. Duhhhh!
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Usually I'm not a big fan of a red/green/blue combo, but on my screen the swatch looks lovely, the colors seem dark and muted. Do you get kool-aid in Germany? I don't remember seeing any but who knows, with the arrival of Starbucks and TheGap it seems everything is possible. A lot of people here in the US use it, I've never tried it. Let me know, I'll send you some :-)
Posted by: Steph | 03/29/2006
at least you had the balls to try! I like the colors, looks kinda Christmas-y : )
You could always try Wilton's cake decorator's frosting.
Posted by: Amanda Cathleen | 03/29/2006
Yes, the colours look Christmasy to me as well!
Posted by: Yuli | 03/30/2006
i actually kind of dig it. the way it's coming up on my screen, anyway.
Posted by: jenn | 03/30/2006
Whaddya?! I think it's pretty cool for your first try. You can only get better. And I'll send you Kool Aid too, if you need it. It is so much fun! Except when you forget to wear gloves and you dye your hands.
Posted by: Ande | 03/30/2006
I think it looks really cool!
Posted by: trek | 03/31/2006
The colors aren't *that* bad, are they? They look pretty good from over here!
And if you want stripes there is going to be major re-skeining involved!
Posted by: JessaLu | 04/01/2006
I really like those colors. It looks better than most of my dying jobs.
I've never made what I was aiming for, though... Guess it's a good thing I like surprises. ;^)
Posted by: Elizabeth | 04/03/2006
I like that combo too, looks like a good dyeing job to me.
Posted by: purlpower | 04/04/2006
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