Kiss My Knits!

Yammering about dyeing and barnyard animals. Bonus pic of my dad!

Look what houseofdanie made for me! 490 yards of cotton chenille goodness! I could just sleep on a bed of this all day. Mmmm… happy.

Now I just gotta figure out what to do with it. I need a project worthy of the yarn!

Okay, people were interested in the last weird crafty thing I posted here, so I’ll keep up the trend. Crossposting to .

Here’s another attempt at dyeing yarn with Wilton’s icing dyes. Same colors on the ends as before – cornflower blue and delphinium blue – but this time rose pink in the middle. It’s a bit bright, and reminds me of all the bicentennial stuff that came out when I was a kid in ’76. This marks the second batch of yarn I’ve dyed and then said, “Okay, now what the hell am I going to do with it?”

I posted about dyeing my first batch in this post and thought I’d show the process of dyeing it. This will be old hat to you experienced hands, but those of us who are still scrabbling for a clue may enjoy it. 🙂
Process of dyeing the first batch