Yarn in progress

I think this yarn dying business might get addictive. I LOVE how my yarn is turning out. I'm waiting for it to dry now.

It looks a lot nicer in real life. Here are the details:

Yarn: Patons Classic Merino Wool

Color: Twisted Denim

Dye: Wilton's food dye (the thick kind...in lilac and a bit of red)

What I did: Frogged my ugly sweater into 2 yard-circumference skeins (about 400g; 892 yards of yarn total). Soaked it in vinegar water in my crock pot for an hour. Drained the vinegar water and moved it to sink while I boiled some water. Moved one skein into ginormous metal bowl, where I poured about 2 cups of had-just-been-boiling water which I had mixed with dye over the skein and squished it around. Added another skein on top and repeated until all skeins were in the bowl.

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Transferred yarn back to crock pot and turned it on high for 3.5 hours. Drained yarn and let cool in crockpot and then transferred to colander. After a few hours, I rinsed the yarn in cool water with a bit of mild soap, spun it dry in the best salad spinner ever (seriously, if you dye yarn or block a lot of your knitting, I think this would be seriously worth the investment) and it is now drying on a towel on my counter and hanging from my pot rack. My kitchen smells like a wet sheep. :-)

I'm excited to see how it all turns out once it's all done. :-)

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