1. Wash the yarn with soap...to soften the out the yarn
2. I have to put the yarn into warm vingered water for 20min....to make it soak the dye fast!!
3. Part of vinger into hot water...Mix with acid dye!!!
4. Squeeze out from vinger water.
5. Cover all the area with balck garbage bag!!
6. Put the yarn into the top of garbage bag... start to paint the dye into the yarn
7. After all painted, roll into P.warp.
8. Put into steamer with hot water. Steam it for 20min!!!
9.Take the yarn out wash with warm water...Many times..Ontill, yarn dye is are not coming out!!
10. Let it dry it over night!!!!
11. Reskein the yarn
12 Make a lable done!!!!
You can see this all the stop!!!!! See more dye process!!!! Here
I will show you more pic..when i finsh reskein the dye-yarn!!! SEE Ya
4 comments:
Great colors! Can't wait to see the creative names you always chose :)
Just gorgeous!! Looks like you had lots of fun!!
i also dyed some yarn this w/e!!! what a mess!!!!! I'll post pics soon.... yours is beautiful, gr8 job!
Have you tried dyeing alpaca?
http://cgi.ebay.com/DYE-YOUR-OWN-Baby-ALPACA-Yarn-Misti-WORSTED-218-yd-hank_W0QQitemZ300014001924QQihZ020QQcategoryZ36591QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem&refid=store
I would be curious to see how it comes out, since I've never dyed yarn before.
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