so if you want to get strange looks at the grocery store...
no we're not cooking up strange new drugs.
we're sugaring ourselves and preparing to dye yarn! knitpicks dye your own sock yarn. we decided to practice on our skeins before attempting to dye the yarn for my sock pal.
and we decided that the color would not be dark enough if we went with the prescribed 1 packet per ounce...
so we wnet back to the store to get more koolaid and for more strange looks
(at this point we're up to 56 packs total)
now thats more like it, much better color.
and its so neat to see the different colors available! 2 completely different blues :)
and with a little more foresight we would have realized the dish we were using was not going to fit in the microwave...
ok a little reorganization and we're ready to go!
and didn't it turn out gorgeous! i'm keeping this one!
shirley decided to do purple red and orange,
isn't it wierd the purple looks black on the yarn
(shirley and i wore some old scrubs i had lying around the house so we wouldn't ruin our clothes.)
shirley's color choices turned out beautiful as well.
and finally i decided to try out the dye a whole skein method. doesnt this look gross?
and i didn't like the end result at all! not nearly as lively as the othe rtwo skeins
so i gave it a facelift this morning, so much better! mind you i had to make anothe rtrip to the store i had to pick up another 8 packs of koolaid...66 all together to get gorgeous bright color! AND NO, NONE OF IT WASHED OUT IN THE RINSE IT ABSORBED IT ALL!!!
i'll start knitting on my sockpalOOOza socks as soon as this stuff dries and i can con someone into holding it while i wind it into a ball :)
no we're not cooking up strange new drugs.
we're sugaring ourselves and preparing to dye yarn! knitpicks dye your own sock yarn. we decided to practice on our skeins before attempting to dye the yarn for my sock pal.
and we decided that the color would not be dark enough if we went with the prescribed 1 packet per ounce...
so we wnet back to the store to get more koolaid and for more strange looks
(at this point we're up to 56 packs total)
now thats more like it, much better color.
and its so neat to see the different colors available! 2 completely different blues :)
and with a little more foresight we would have realized the dish we were using was not going to fit in the microwave...
ok a little reorganization and we're ready to go!
and didn't it turn out gorgeous! i'm keeping this one!
shirley decided to do purple red and orange,
isn't it wierd the purple looks black on the yarn
(shirley and i wore some old scrubs i had lying around the house so we wouldn't ruin our clothes.)
shirley's color choices turned out beautiful as well.
and finally i decided to try out the dye a whole skein method. doesnt this look gross?
and i didn't like the end result at all! not nearly as lively as the othe rtwo skeins
so i gave it a facelift this morning, so much better! mind you i had to make anothe rtrip to the store i had to pick up another 8 packs of koolaid...66 all together to get gorgeous bright color! AND NO, NONE OF IT WASHED OUT IN THE RINSE IT ABSORBED IT ALL!!!
i'll start knitting on my sockpalOOOza socks as soon as this stuff dries and i can con someone into holding it while i wind it into a ball :)
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