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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hand Dyed Yarn

Hello my dears!
Searching the web I often saw gorgeous hand dyed yarn. These colouring amaze my imagination - these are so unusual and different, that's way one day I felt that I really really really want to make MY hand dyed yarn. I never do it. But I really wanted to do it! I found at home only one skein of undyed Latvian wool, about which I've written here. I went to the usual food store and bought there food colourings. There were only three colors - yellow, red and green.
And that's what I did...

MY FIRST HAND DYED YARN

hand dyed yarn

hand dyed yarn

hand dyed yarn

I'm so proud of my work!!!
I was very thrilled and excited making it... I was running around my kitchen as a child... Time after time my DH(Dear Husband) was in a kind giggling at me... :-)
But I still don't know what could I do with them... I made a couple of motives only, just to see a colour pattern.





I forgot to tell you that before I started to dye my wool I spent a lot of time searching the Web to get an infomation how-to-do. And of course I share with you a couple of links without which I wouldn't have done my first hand dyed wool. Look here the best description for me, and look here  and here also.


Do you want to try to do it? I advise you! You will get a lot of fun!
 I wish a good week for you!
Olga
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5 comments:

  1. The colours have turned out brilliant. I thought that food dye would wash out of the yarn, or at least get really pale after washing. I had better have an experiment too. What sort of yarn did you use as the base?
    xXx Helen

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  2. This is so fun! Have done it time ago, and remember was told to use vinegar after dying, so colors won't fade. Don't know if it's true thou ;)

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  3. Thank you Helen! The yarn I used is 100% undyed wool.
    Thank you Siga! I have used a vinegar while I was dye my yarn.

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  4. That looks GREAT Olga - well done you!

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  5. Looks wonderful! Well done you, and thank you for the link to my tutorial.

    Best,
    Suse

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