Monday, August 1, 2011
Monday Fun
I was kind of bored this morning (after cleaning the bathroom and the kitchen), so I decided to dye some yarn. I have some natural dye, which is always fun to use. This time I tried Woad, which is crazy. It looks all yellow-green in the dye pot:
But as soon as you take the yarn out of the dye bath and expose it to air, it turns blue:
One skein didn't "take" as much dye as the others, but I'm overall pretty pleased with this little experiment. BTW, Woad has been used as a dye for thousands of years, starting back in the Neolithic Age, so that's a fun fact!
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4 comments:
Beauty! - But I'm never going to dye my own - WAY too much work!
it's really not, and you get to pretend you are a mad scientist too! Just wish I was better at it; I have no patience with measuring and whatnot.
It's beautiful. You should make one of those "eternity" scarves (is that what they're called?) super cute!
I will check out patterns, that might be a good use for my wonky skein
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