The Dye Pot

Drake Mallard

Another crock pot overdye job and another blue-green yarn :) I seem to be on a roll!

Materials

Approximately 2.3 ounces of Knitpicks Merino Style, light grey.
1 tablet green Easter Egg dye
About a tablespoon McCormack's liquid food dye - blue
White vinegar
Water

Method

Crock-pot

Colorfast?

Yes

Color name

Drake Mallard






Process

I started by winding the yarn from two partial 50 gram balls into a single skein and then weighed it to determine the amounts of dye that would be neseccary. The yarn was soaked in tepid water and dish detergent for about 40 minutes, then added to the crock pot along with the dye bath. The temperature was set to high and it took about an hour and a half to exhaust the dye. The yarn was then allowed to cool and was washed, rinsed and hung up to dry.

Geez, it takes a lot longer to dry yarn in the kitchen when all the windows are closed!





Notes:

As this yarn was grey to begin with, the results are somewhat heathered. I probably should have forseen that, but didn't :) It's very nice anyway, sort of a medium/dark teal and will go nicely with my growing collection of blue-green yarns. Now, if I can only figure out what to do with them!

As with all the Knitpicks merinos I have dyed (whether they had been previously dyed or not) there was some slight fulling - not much and not enough to be problematic. But when I unwound the skein to roll the center-pull ball, it was just slightly sticky in spots where the yarn had grabbed on to itself.

Posted by Robbyn on 12/20 at 07:10 PM