Sam had some shetland that she has been itching to color. In it goes, into a warm brown dye bath from Judith McJenzie McCuin's Miracle Dyes.
And here it is coming out of the pot.
It was then layered with a beautiful mahogony cushings dye. Click the picture to see the final product.
Sam's contemplating knitting Harriet from One Fine Fleece after seeing how gorgeous Kim's Harriet was progressing.
Kim has a gazillion pounds of alpaca locks. I didn't get photos of each of her marvelous creations, but doesn't this one just make you want to say, "MINE"?!!
I skeined and dyed a bunch of pale pink commercial yarn into more vivid colors using Cushings dyes. Not sure what they will become yet.
5 comments:
Oooh, I love that rich brown, and the alpaca locks are tantalizing.
I kinda liked that yellowy-gold, but definitely like the brown better! It'll be a beautiful Harriet!
And the alpaca made my mouth water!
Pretty pretty!
What is that that's being used to pull the yarn out of the water? I have to admit, that's my biggest concern about dye-bath dying, and why I keep just spot-dying.
Wow! I'm only about three weeks behind, eh? ;-) You got such good photos, Jen! I hope Kim got more photos of all of that gorgeousness of hers.
And Kristine, I just use the canning rack that comes with the hot water bath canner. I leave it in the bottom of the dye bath, and voila! handles to dip the yarn/fleece and to remove it from the pot. It's always worked pretty well for me. - Sam
Okay those colors made me drool !
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