Here I am dying away. One of us found a web site showing knitted swatches being dyed and then frogged and reknit. Light bulbs flashing all over! lol This is two lengths that I wanted to make into a pair of socks, but as Rosy pointed out, at the width I made my color changes, I’d have to knit knee socks to get all the colors in and that wasn’t quite what I had in mind, but I have other ideas for using this really cool yarn! Rosy used her facny dyes and I used my kool-aid. It was great fun.
She also helped me sort my new cormo fleece and get it ready to wash. We even got one batch washed. It is sooooo nice! I stopped at the dollar store on the way home and bought laundry bags to wash it in. No felted fleece for me this time, by gosh!
Now that does look like fun! I wonder if you ran the koolaide stripes the other way along the knitting if that would make a good self patterning sock yarn?
We just got back from shopping and I found EE dyes for 66 cents for 9 tablets. Hoping they go on sale even cheaper after Easter but figured I’d pick up a few just in case they run out. I also got a passle of koolaide because dh loves the smell of cooking koolaide. 🙂
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I didn’t think about trying it that way. Sis was trying to make thin strips of color but the dye spreads, wicks , so it’s hard. I’ll knit her a thin length and that should to better at making narrow stripes for socks. I’ll have to give the long ways color a try and see what it does! Thanks for the idea.
You got a better deal than I did! I paid 69 cents at Walmart. lol I did buy a dozen boxes, tho. Also got some of Walmarts ‘koolaid’, I like their red, it seem redder than Kool-Aid’s. I think that’s the strawberry flavor. I like the smell of Koolaid dyed yarn too. Orange is my fav! Good thing I like the color, too!
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