Now for color

Dying is an interesting pursuit.  You can dye with kool-aide, walnut hulls, marigold blossoms and of course commercial dyes.  You must be careful though - those commercial dyes can be a bit caustic and you have to use glove and a mask to be completely safe.  Lots of wonderful sites that talk about dying.

For today's little experiment - I wanted a BRIGHT and VIBRANT blue and lots of color - so I chose jaquard commercial acid dyes in Blue and Yellow. I had the wonderful experience of an "exausted" dye pot.  That is the holy grail of dying.  It is where all of the dye is absorbed into your wool and the water ends up clear... it is amazing but true. Here are my results...

So I did a bright blue and wound it up. 

Then a verigated yarn by starting with yellow... dip one end..... then adding blue to the water and dipping lightly to the middle...then pull it out to dip and hold the end in to get a deep green.  The yellow in this photo is the original yellow I started with. this will be a quick color change on the needles.  I have not done a variegated yarn before.  This turned out pretty well!

I am now ready to start my project.  The yarn turned out Just as promised from the shepherdess.  Lofty - spongy, bouncy with a lot of elasticity.  Pretty exciting...