Sunday, June 04, 2006

Spun-out on Dye-versity

thanks to Aunt S for adding fuel to my crafting mania. she gave me this lovely book on dying yarn called Dyeing to Knit. after perusing it i decided to try making a variegated skein, originally i thought i would do a lovely green and blue combo by first dying half the skein yellow and then putting the whole thing in a blue bath. i started spinning. then i started thinking: if i'm going to have a yellow dyepot and a blue dyepot, i should just make a solid yellow and a solid blue also. and if i'm doing those two solids i might as well spin up one to make a solid green right? and now you can see the slippery slope of crafting insanity...as you can see i didn't stop there. i figured, if i'm going to do it i might as well just go with primary and secondary solids and variegated combinations of all three. right? each ball of yarn is Navajo plyed, which is a plying technique where you take a single yarn and you make it into a triple ply yarn by kind of making big crochet loops with your hands while you ply-spin it. they are all approximately sixty yards, wound into a center pull ball.

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