adventures in yarn dyeing

My experiments with dyeing sock yarn continue. Unfortunately, I still don't have a digital camera (story of my camera's death later) so my husband is going to teach me to use the video camera to create still shots. They won't be as good but will at least be *something*.

That red yarn in my last post ...it is rewound into a very long skein ready to be redyed. When I went to knit it up the color pooled horribly. One side of the sock was two reds and one side was pink and burgandy. In it's rewound state it is all mixed up instead of its original stripeyness and when I redye it it will get varigated I'm thinking with more shades of fuschia and red. No matter what it will be girly goodness.

I've also been struggling to learn how much to soak my yarns and how much dye to apply in order to get good varigation with the colors not blending together too much so there's not too much overlap but colors stopping just at each other therefore avoiding muddy brown. I've learned a lot from others' instructions but have to resign my self to the reality that trial and error is still the best educator. Ughh, this could get expensive. I may have to sell some yarn to feed the habit.

I'll try to blog more frequently and hopefully someone will read this eventually. I know it will be way more fun once I have pictures to go with my feeble writing skills.

Later -- my great homemade niddy noddy quartet! Woohoo!!