I was reading an interesting post over at I'm Knitting As Fast As I Can (it's the Mar. 27th entry) about dyeing in the crockpot. I was intrigued and thought I would try it. However my crockpot is ginormous and I just wanted to try it and didn't have enough yarn to fill it and and and
But then I started thinking. Remember when I received the giant crock pot? There was an added bonus.
A 2 cup crock pot for sauces and dips. The perfect size for a ball of yarn.
Et voila!
I added one cup of water and 3 packs of cherry Kool Aid. Plopped my presoaked yarn in and let her be.
After the dye had exhausted I pulled the ball out and did up another batch of dye using 1 cup of water and 3 packs of orange Kool Aid. Then I put the ball back in. Undyed side down.
I am totally hooked! This was so fun! And the end result was pretty too.
Great Big Thanks to Susan
for the inspiration!
Now where is the rest of my undyed wool?
Thanks for commenting on my yarn...it looks a little christmas-y, so maybe I'm going to make a christmas stocking out of it some time;-)
Thanks also for offering to send kool-aid! Luckily I won an e-bay auction for some last night, so I can get started on more dyeing! Woo-hoo!
And- have you really dyed your hands before? *LOL* I'd love to have seen any co-workers' faces when you showed up at work...
Posted by: Julia | March 31, 2006 at 12:24 AM
Dude, you dyed it in the ball? You're not supposed to be able to get away with that!
Looks awesome (take that "experts"!)
Do you have "helpful old ladies" in Canada? You know, the ones who "just want to let you know that you can't" do whatever? They're a veritable plague down here. Sorry, just reminded me.
Posted by: spaazlicious | March 30, 2006 at 09:45 AM
Looks great! I can't wait to see how that knits up.. I'm ordering a bunch of that "dye your own" sock yarn soon to play with it too because I can't seem to find the colors I'm after.
Posted by: Mouse | March 30, 2006 at 08:27 AM
I've got to get an old crock pot and give that a try ,too!
Posted by: margene | March 30, 2006 at 08:09 AM
:-) Your yarn turned out great and thanks for the little tutorial... you've had far more luck than me;-) My yarn turned out really crappy!
Posted by: Julia | March 30, 2006 at 12:52 AM
Oh... that looks *delicious*. Can I meet it in person? :)
Posted by: Mandy | March 29, 2006 at 09:22 PM
Holy cow, Ande; that's great. Now I just have to try it again this weekend. Dang.
Posted by: susan | March 29, 2006 at 08:05 PM