I know I've been very neglectful of my blog. It can't be denied that when I get onto something (like selling felted bags), everything else falls by the wayside.

Here's some dying I did last weekend, on a very neutral light coloured wool:


These are chubby hanks that are around 7-8 ounces each. The first one was done with Dylon Cold A3 Lilac. I found it at our local fabric store. I love the colour, it's perfect. I got very consistent results. I just don't fancy the idea of using chemical dyes, yet I can't deny the results are the best.

The second skein was an overdye job done on some cornflower blue wool that I wasn't in love with. I used Kool-Aid in Strawberry, with some grape thrown in towards the end. Not totally consistent results, but I'm sure it'll knit up fine. A little too rosey for my taste, but that just proves how strong Kool-Aid is!

The third skein was again the neutral wool, this time dyed with Wilton icing colour in Violet. Man you don't need much of this stuff! I used WAY too much and it wasn't even half a teaspoon. There was tons of colour left in the pot. Next time I'll use much much much less. I see the potential for a very nice muted violet. I wasn't going for ultra violet! But it's very pretty.

The orange below used to be orange from Kool-Aid, but it was too soda pop orange. I overdyed it with turmeric (an Indian spice, also called 'Indian Saffron), and threw in a bit of the neutral wool and boy what a yellow! The orange is still too orangey, it'll become part of my wool embroidery stash.


Dying is fun!!