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knit-errant
January 27th, 2006, 02:08 PM
Well, I'm a little too pleased with myself and my husband is tired of listening to me, so now I get to talk everybody's ears (eyes?) off here.

After being inspired by all the pretty yarns everybody has been handpainting, I decided to take a crack at Kool Aid dyeing.

I used Paton's Classic Merino and Kool Aid in Grape, Grape with a few drops of blue food dye, Black Cherry, Strawberry mixed with Orange, and Lemon-Lime with blue dye. (Whew!)

Other than my kitchen smelling like a wet, fruity lamb for a little while, I'm really pretty pleased with my first attempt.

You can have a look-see here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/28247563/
nataleeza
January 27th, 2006, 02:50 PM
That's gorgeous! I hope you know that looking at wool yarn colours will never be the same again... Not now that you can change them!

I started a blog because I wasn't getting "enough" encouragement. My Blair is a great guy, but he just doesn't get the whole fibre thing, and feels that saying "that's very pretty" just once is enough.

Well, you know we'll all cheer you on here :cheer
kad2mgd
January 27th, 2006, 03:23 PM
Wow!! That turned out really, really cool......what are you going to make from it?
losingmymind2
January 27th, 2006, 03:43 PM
Beautiful. I'm still amazed at the whole striping process, I feel mine are too muddy; I envy anyone who can get such beautiful results.
shelain22
January 27th, 2006, 03:50 PM
how.....
dogymom
January 27th, 2006, 04:11 PM
AWESOME!!!! Makes me want to try!
mardar
January 27th, 2006, 04:13 PM
It looks beautiful. :)

Tamar
Kiki
January 27th, 2006, 04:32 PM
It is just beautiful! I am afraid to try this!
brenmichelle20
January 27th, 2006, 04:37 PM
that is so pretty, I have never dyed anything oranything special like that, we have dogs and a cat that will eat yarn so I have to be careful about that.
deneen
January 27th, 2006, 05:10 PM
Beautiful!
knit-errant
January 28th, 2006, 02:00 PM
Thanks, all! :)

Now if I could just figure out what to make with it...

It is just beautiful! I am afraid to try this!

Don't be! It was really very easy. :) I used the method in last month's Creative Knitting magazine.
shelain22
January 30th, 2006, 11:38 AM
http://cgi.ebay.com/CREATIVE-KNITTING-magazine-November-July-2005-2-issues_W0QQitemZ7003767232QQcategoryZ280QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem

was it this November one that the article was in? I really want6 to try that, but I cant find that mag....