This weekend, I've been messing around dyeing yarn with food colouring. I quite fancied some self striping sock yarn in "watermelony" sort of colours so thought I'd have a go at doing it myself. I very loosely followed Eunny Jang's tutorial and I'm quite pleased with the results, even if the colours aren't quite what I expected!
I was going for more of a dark red, hot pink and lime green stripe rather than the slightly Christmassy colours that I've ended up with. However, I think over time, the colours will fade and end up looking quite pretty and closer to the colour scheme I had in mind.
It was quite good fun trying this method as it wasn't too fiddly or messy, and the best bit was that it cost me next to nothing as the yarn was from the bargain bin in John Lewis at Bluewater . I found two balls of Patons Fairytale Dreamtime 4 ply right at the bottom of the bin marked down to £1.25. for the two. I already had the food colouring in my pantry and I paid 45p for a bottle of vinegar, so in total, the whole project cost me around £2.00. What a bargain!
Monday, 18 February 2008
Fun with food coloring........
Posted by justclaire at 2/18/2008 09:23:00 am
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I really love the combination of colors you used! I'm sure they will look really gorgeous all knit up!
The colorway is fantastic! I love the shades that you ended up with. Have you tried dying wool with Kool-Aid? It's really big here in the U.S. I think you either boil it or microwave it. Yummmm....orange and lime yarn!
Could be the start of big things?! You probably know this, but if you use Kool Aid, you don't need to use vinegar as it's got so much citric acid in it - you can get Kool Aid from UK sellers on ebay. Listen, I could go on and on with advice you haven't even asked for... but do just ask. I'm v. excited that you tried yarn dyeing! Can you tell?
Thanks everyone!
Oh yes! I've had a go at Kool-Aid dyeing. Every time I visit the US, I stock up with dozens of packets of the stuff, and there's the Kool-AidUK website too that has pretty much every flavour available:) I've got some of the results up on my stash page on Ravelry if you're interested. As you can see, I'm no professional, but it's a fun thing to do when I've got a bit of time on my hands!
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