Now that I’ve taken the plunge into commercial acid dyes, I’m building a color swatch catalog that I can reference for dyeing yarn a specific shade. That means color mixing exercises — starting with triangle dyeing. I’m going to need to do this a bunch of times — partly because… Continue reading
Okay, we try things over at Adventures with Andi. They don’t always work, but we try them. Like in this week’s episode, when we dyed a yarn cake by injecting copper food coloring into it, then putting the cake in a teal dye bath. I gotta admit, I… Continue reading
Cram jar dyeing is one of my favorite ways to dye yarn. You stuff a skein of yarn into a jar, adding drops of food coloring or sprinkling Kool-Aid or other dry dye powder as you go. Then, you pour water in so it spreads the dye throughout the yarn…. Continue reading