Anyway. Yarn. I had quite a bit leftover from my Gathered Pullover--more than enough for a little baby sweater. But the baby in question is a girl--not that baby girls can't wear blue! I would have been happy to make her a little blue sweater, actually, and take THAT, gender-normativity, but after knitting an entire adult sweater out of this yarn I could not stare at that ocean of blue (heh) any longer.
So bust out the food coloring and vinegar, and MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA, YOU KILLED MY FATHER, PREPARE TO DYE! (hahahaha)(shut up.)
Ahem. Before:
Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in "Denim," 2 + a little bit skeins.
Two teeny samples, microwaved:
On the left: purple McCormick food coloring over blue; on the right, pink. I like the purple much better.
Drying in the sun after "kettle-dying" (which sounds quite fancy and artisan-dyer esque, but really means I stirred up some food coloring, vinegar, and water, heated it up, and added the yarn. Somewhere along the line I managed to dye my foot pink. You know.)
Aaaand finished product!
I love it! It's much more variegated than I had intended--some spots stayed pretty blue, and then I tried to overdye those and only got some of them and so now some spots are pretty red, but I think it'll look nice knit up. So a success!
Except, except...oh, I don't want to talk about it. It's too painful.
It's...I...I can't even talk about it. There was a funny smell, and then there was yarn on fire, and then there was burned wool, and breaking, and...aaaaugh.
And really it's not too bad, actually; it only burned through about ten strands, all close together, so most of the skein is intact. I saved these little bits and I'll use them for seaming or edges or something. It's just...augh.
But I did make pretty yarn!
Oh, and what am I making? Oh, only the third-most popular baby pattern on Ravelry.
I told you I'm not cool.
1 comment:
Surely it should be "My name is INDIGO Montoya"? ;)
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