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Recipe for Easter Egg Yarn.
Take some easter-egg-pellet-dyed pink roving and spin up a bobbins worth of singles. Then take some easter-egg-rainbow-dyed roving and spin that into another bobbins worth of singles. Ply. Fun. Very pink and pastelly. Next up, jewel tones!
As requested, here is a what this yarn looks like knit up into a very large swatch. I may just continue this as a scarf.
I was surprised to see the stripes, though it makes sense because the colors were introduced at regular intervals while spinning the rainbow single.
To dye the fiber I used a combination of the kool-aid directions found around the web and the rainbow dyeing instructions in the Twisted Sisters Sock Book.
Posted by Mary on 10.10.2003 AT 12:06 AM
Comments
i love it!
Posted by: vanessa on 10.10.2003 AT 06:39 AM
Wow, you've really gotten to be a good spinner! Everything is so consistent and even! Maybe I'll get there someday?
Posted by: CarolineF on 10.10.2003 AT 08:45 AM
Beautiful spinning...what a creative ply-er you are!
Posted by: Lisa on 10.10.2003 AT 09:16 AM
No fair, now I wanna spin even more. Do I have time? No! Do I have the money to throw at it? No! Can I resist temptation? No!
Posted by: Chris on 10.10.2003 AT 11:56 AM
Sooooooo pretty! I wanna see it knit up. Please??? :)
Posted by: Kerstin on 10.10.2003 AT 12:02 PM
so pretty! which easter egg colors did you use? I'd love to see it at rhinebeck
Posted by: Leigh on 10.10.2003 AT 12:40 PM
Those skeins are looking so fabulous, even Kerstin sounds interested in them.....quite a feat!
Posted by: claudia on 10.10.2003 AT 05:42 PM
I can't wait to see it knit up either! You are a talented yarn maker! You could be a sheep! :)
Do I see a smooch store coming up?
Posted by: Sandy on 10.10.2003 AT 08:25 PM
Holy COW (or SHEEP, as the case may be)--that stuff is GORGE! Where can I buy it?!
Posted by: Brooks on 10.10.2003 AT 09:53 PM
Hi Mary - can you post instructions on how to easter egg dye? Same as Kool-Aid - make a strong solution and microwave? Hug Spence for me - I can't decide who's cuter: Spence or Tate (from Threadbear Fiberarts).
Posted by: Stella on 10.11.2003 AT 12:01 PM
I want that yarn!!!
Posted by: Krysta on 10.11.2003 AT 06:21 PM
Wow!
Posted by: Kerstin on 10.15.2003 AT 07:12 PM
Pink yarn... you're so sweet,
You look good enough to eat,
How I love your multi-pastel hues,
And you're pretty at every view.
- fin -
Posted by: lyn on 10.10.2003 AT 01:21 AM