Disaster Yarn Revisited

 I seriously scared myself this morning. It dawned on me just this morning that tomorrow is indeed Halloween which means Christmas is less than 2 months away! How can that be?! Wasn’t it just summer? I am not at all ready for it to be approaching the holiday season. I have so many gifts I [...]

Finished Diaper Soakers

I thought I would post a couple pictures of some of my finished diaper soakers that I knitted. Both were also hand-dyed by me. I dyed them both with Wilton’s food coloring. The purple one I dip dyed and the other one I kettle dyed. The kettle dyed one was a lot of fun because [...]

Dyeing Disaster Saved

Well, maybe disaster is a rather strong word but that is certainly what it felt like yesterday, a complete disaster. Thankfully I remained calm.
It started with a vision I have had for some yarn to dye. I have had several successes with dip dyeing yarn using Wilton food coloring gels. I used the article at [...]

Knitting Up Some Wool Diaper Soakers

 Wow, this past week flew by for me. I have been busy starting several new knitting projects. I’m also trying to plan what my next dyeing experiment is going to be. I have really been getting into knitting wool diaper soakers for Princess A. A few months back I knitted her two of them and [...]

Dye Bath is Brewing

Yesterday I crushed the acorns my boys found for me and I now have them happily soaking away. I plan on letting them soak for the remainder of the week. When I added water to them they immediately turned the water a tan brown color so I am very curious to see how this batch [...]