This is some pale pink Totem that I've 'reclaimed' from a vest (via Taph), and have successfully dyed with food colouring. The photograph doesn't do the colours justice... it's mainly a deep red orange, with lighter orange tints, apricot, pale pink, and warm yellow.
I was really
lazy creative about it - I soaked the wool in white vinegar for nearly a day, then I just dripped undiluted Pillar Box Red and Yellow food colouring directly onto the wool, swished the pot around, then dumped the lot into a glass bowl and microwaved it a couple of times. Voil-la!
what a great mix of colours, you are VERY creative!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! (now I just need to figure out if I'm very lazy, or very creative, or both LOL!)
ReplyDeleteNow I just need to figure out what to do with it! I actually have more of the pink vest to unravel, so maybe I should get on with that, and wash and dye the rest of the pink similarly.... and then I'll have enough 8ply to actually make something of decent size! Hmm - would be enough to make a cozy hot-water bottle cover or two, wouldn't it...
should be.. sounds warm. stupid outside world making me go to prac and not knit (in class anyway..). humf.
ReplyDeletelove the bedsocks by the way. see you sunday?
Seeing that my Dear Hubby has been very sick with a virus for the past week (ie sick in bed, barely able to move), and he's now sharing it with me (crap crap crap), I may not be well enough to come along on Sunday :( I passed out on the couch last night, and have only just dragged myself out of bed now...
ReplyDeleteStunningly gorgeous! And perfect for Project Spectrum for March - I can't see colours now without thinking of their Project Spectrum months!!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a long way from Mum's lolly pink. Congrats. :)
ReplyDeletehope you feel better soon :( will cross my fingers that i see you anyway. will the kidliwink be about? perhaps need shepherding to yarn-fest 2006? let me know if i can help out at all xox
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