Dye Day

My friend Heidi and I decided it was time to have a "Dye Day". So, on Friday we gathered some rovings, fleeces, and yarn and plunged ourselves into colors. We thought it would be fun to create our own self patterning sock yarn. To accomplish this, we created extra long rovings by setting 2 chairs apart - way apart. As this was our first attempt, we thought 3 colors would be more manageable.



For the colors, we used a concoction of Louet dyes. Heidi was kind enough to bring her array of colors along. Pots were boiling, kitchen was steaming, fan was humming, we were two color witches mixing and soaking our yarns into magical potions.



Results were to dye for :c) just kidding. Not bad for our first attempt at self patterning. (Heidi's result on picture directly below, mine - last photo)