Thanks to everybody for following along with (and participating
in) our sock blank dyealong! We’ll be posting our finished projects
over the next several weeks, and you’ll be able to see how our sock
blank dye jobs translate to actual stitches. Just a reminder, you
can still enter to win a $50 gift card by emailing a photo of your own
dyed sock blank – here are the
details.
I’m a big fan of the Jacquard
acid dyes, and I use them all the time at home. Instead of dyeing sock
blanks or Bare
yarn, though, I usually tend to dye a lot of roving and loose fiber
for spinning my own yarn. For one of my first attempts, I tried dyeing
the roving by handpainting it with foam brushes, wrapping it in plastic
wrap, then steaming on the stovetop. I chose a basic rainbow color
palette (since I was just starting the whole dyeing thing) and this is
what I got:
(That’s my cat Eddie, mashing up my nice
fluffy roving.)
I spun the roving in color order, and once I had
two bobbins full I plyed them together in roughly the same order so that
the colors would blend and kind of “smash” into each other. I knit the
yarn up into a basic linen-stitch scarf, and this is what I got:
