Show me your favorite yarn that *you* dyed

[whitecalx]

I only can do food coloring and koolaid right now but I'd love to see your favorite skeins and if you could tell me how to do it.
I have 8 oz of natural sitting around and need something to do while I wait for my HPY co-op yarn to come (another month probably snow )

[Meredith]

I have a couple that I loved..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mom2pittcrew/danicacloseup.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/mom2pittcrew/My%20Work/jenniferdone.jpg

[whitecalx]

Meredith do you remember how you got those shades?

[Meredith]

Which ones?

For the top colorway, that was lemon-lime and berry blue KA, and brilliant blue and royal blue acid dyes.

For the rainbow, it was all acid dyes... scarlet, royal blue, emerald green, sun yellow, either purple or lilac (can't remember), and for the orange, I *think* it was scarlet and sun yellow mixed together.

[khogue]

I've only dyed yarn twice, here is my first.

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/7717/ltk13sl.jpg

The other is a ball of pinks I dyed with a variety of KA colors, knit it into a Ribby Wrap but frogged it all. I'll redo it for spring/summer.

[trishshack]

Well I have only dyed yarn once but I love the colors:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/trishshack/Img_2156.jpg

[Nada]

:wowza

GORGEOUS!!

What a bunch of talented mamas!

Nada :love

[JustLookin]

ummm do I *have* to pic just 1? LOL... all are done with kool aid
this was my very first yarn dye
http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL571/2724187/5670822/72723473.jpg
and it knit into this
http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL571/2724187/5670822/72723489.jpg
I also LOOOOOOOVE this colorway! Its my favorite girly colorway
http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL610/2612444/5377878/69333624.jpg
and since I showed ya those I might as well show my other, LOL
http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL571/2724187/5670822/72609971.jpg

[BethyM99]

I love the way those last ones knit up!!!! :)

[JustLookin]

I know and they were the swap pants so it was hard to let go! there was a knot in the yarn on 1 leg and it ended up throwing my stripes off a tad... grrrr

[averymybaby]

Just wait until Sara gets a hold of acid dyes. :brow

[mommomrebecca]

Wow! I also love how those last ones knit up :wowza :wowza :wowza

[JustLookin]

Just wait until Sara gets a hold of acid dyes. :brow
LOL if only the kitchen didnt have brand new countertops :getu

[twouglyducks]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/twouglyducks/132_3286.jpg

This is the only one I could find online at the moment. It's BFL dyed with blue and violet wiltons.

[Susan_WW]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/twouglyducks/132_3286.jpg

This is the only one I could find online at the moment. It's BFL dyed with blue and violet wiltons.

Those are one of my favorites too ;) Nicole is wearing them right now :pink

[twouglyducks]

I want to figure out how to dye a black and rainbow var. That is so pretty... Susan you did some pants like that recently. How did you do it??

[pmcgary]

This is the one I can't wait to knit up...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/mama2babybiggirl/25ed1736.jpg

[Susan_WW]

I want to figure out how to dye a black and rainbow var. That is so pretty... Susan you did some pants like that recently. How did you do it??

I did a variegated rainbow and dark indigo blue. It's such a pain in the butt to get that many colors to come out evenly.

Normally, when I do up to 4 colors in a variegated yarn, I just hang it over the pot so 1/4th of the yarn is in the pot and the rest is out of the pot. But when I do a rainbow, I use 6 individual colors, so there really isn't a good way to do it hanging over the pot. (Thinking about it now I guess I could use just red, yellow, and blue and then overlap the colors to get orange, green, and purple :idea . It would make life alot easier!!!)

So anyway, I lay it out on saran wrap and use a syringe (I use the one that came with my Ronco Rotisserie, but you can probably just use a turkey baster) to apply the dye in small sections. Make sure you wear gloves or you wind up with black hands (ask me how I know ;) ) Then I roll the whole thing up and put it in a steamer basket on the stove for 30 minutes or so. It really makes a big mess and sometimes the colors wind up mixing and you get something you really didn't expect.

HTH :)

[Susan_WW]

Pam, that's just beautiful in its simplicity. I really like single color variegations. I think I need to do some more of them.

[botannie]

This is the only yarn I've ever dyed. It a bunch or red koolaid colors mixed together.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/botannie/00444.jpg

I love all your colors, ladies. I might have to dye some more. (If I ever have time again)

[twouglyducks]

Pretty poncho Annie... and Pam, I really like that purple. Very pretty.

[meco]

Sara,

I love, love, love the first one with those colors. I want some like that!! I need to dye some yarn... :pink

[meco]

I do not really have a lot up...but this
http://homepage.mac.com/ecubanyc/Fluff/PhotoAlbum16.html
was fun...

and

this (at the bottom, not the brown)
http://homepage.mac.com/ecubanyc/Fluff/PhotoAlbum35.html
would have been great if I had managed to figure out it would be for pants and not a soaker so there are 2 different colors of blue :( Oh well, could have been beautiful! I like the beginning anyway. :D

[Ruth]

http://photobox.tiscali.co.uk/album/album_fullsize.html?c_photo=17554152

http://photobox.tiscali.co.uk/album/album_photo.html?c_photo=17554150

http://photobox.tiscali.co.uk/album/album_photo.html?c_photo=17554149

This is my first attempt at KA dyeing (thanks to Pam M :) ) - I'll root out the packets to tell you which flavours I used later. Second pic is a bit blurry but you can get the idea. I'm thinking of overdyeing the hpy with something dark because I think the colours are a bit dull. Ds 'helped' me to paint the wool too, I'm so pleased with the results - I'll post a pic of the pants I'm knitting with it when they're finished.

[BerryPatchMama]

The top is my favorite! Its Wiltons.. which I haven't been using so much lately, go figure

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/BerryPatchMama/soakerpants.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/BerryPatchMama/soakerbluegreenback.jpg
This one I thought I hated at first, until I knit it up and now I love it! Must remember how I screwed it up ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/BerryPatchMama/brightsoaker.jpg

I have some yarn I love, but no picture.. its another experimental screw up LOL its olive-brown, lavender, light rose red, orangey-yellow