Avoiding Pooling while dyeing a skein

[Nada]

What is the best way to avoid pooling when you dye a skein. I know the last thread mentioned when dyeing a knit product but I am having a hard time with pooling when dyeing a skein. I have to dump out excess liquid (usually a horrible mixed colour, LOL) everytime I add a new dye colour. Maybe I'm using too much water with the dye? :chin

Nada

[littleturtlemama]

you need to use something to raise up your yarn a bit so that the excess dye will run under and away from the yarn. Something like a dish drainer will work :thumb

[Nada]

you need to use something to raise up your yarn a bit so that the excess dye will run under and away from the yarn. Something like a dish drainer will work :thumb

What a great idea!!! The yarn won't end up drying up though right?

Nada

[twirlgirl]

do you have a cooling rack? I use a pampered chef cooling rack and it works great! I can open up the legs so that its more raised in my sink or leave it folded further down in the sink.
Also when using my oven to heat set, I make sure the "rack" is in side my roasting pan.

[amey]

bumping this up to ask:

all of my cooling racks and my roasting pan are metal (and the pan is hard anodized aluminum if it matters)... some oven dyeing site said I can't use metal, but I don't have a glass pan big enough and was hoping to do 2 skeins at once so the colors were closer to consistent - laying them side by side and variagating them together. KWIM?

Anyway. Can i do this with food dyes in my metal pans?

I'm not sure how "bad" the acid will be - I've cooked spaghetti sauce in the same types of pans...

~amey

[CraftyMommaOf2]

well, i've had ka stain my metal pans.


nak