
After Rhinebeck, the fiber fun continued at Mom’s house! She had one skein (~1100 yds lace weight, Merino/Bamboo blend) left to dye so Monday morning we set out to dye it up! We made a few little mini skeins for experimenting, soaked them in citric acid…

Picked a few colors…

and away we went…

We started with just purple…

Notice how Mom’s technique rinses clear! No bleeding, no excess dye, no mess! I’ll save the rant for some other time but seriously, this is the way it should always be!

Of course, I wasn’t content with just one color.

Green and, eventually, Orange wiggled their way into the plan. At some point over the weekend, I was bitten by the Halloween bug. It didn’t itch or sting but the effects seem to be growing. Neon Green yarn at Rhinebeck was not enough. This is the sample I decided upon…

I knew what I was doing, I made the crazy clown barf decision with willful defiance. I have no one but myself to blame if it doesn’t work out. LOL! So we set to work…

To prevent the colors from bleeding into each other, we applied the dye with a thickening agent. It was messy and squishy and it took a while.

I can see why hand painted yarns are so expensive! It was labor intensive!

Roll it up and into the microwave it went!

After it cooled, we rinsed it and this is what we were left with…

I love it! I have a few ideas for it! It’s so fun! I’m gonna admire it for a bit…I have a feeling it will be wound soon!