She Dyed by Her Own Hand or Handpainted Yarn Whatever

And yes I dyed by my own hands! I hand painted my first skein of yarn! I used the tutorial on knitty.com about hand painting wool yarn with food coloring. And now that I've done one skein with food coloring I'm totally full of myself. I've been searching online for undyed sock yarn and acid dyes. Wouldn't that be fun. I'll take pictures of my yard there really is no place for me to use those kind of chemicals. However those of you who know me or have gotten to know me through my blog will probably guess that I will end up doing it even if I have to set up traffic cones in the street in front of my house (because of my lack of front yard as well) and start dying away. I can hear the neighbors now. "There is that crazy knitting lady, you know the one who knits in the front yard while her son rides his big wheel." says neighbor one. Neighbor two pipes up, :Oh yes I saw her trying to knit while pushing her sons in the double stroller for a walk, what a freak!" "What is she doing now MAKING yarn? Doesn't she know you can buy that stuff at Wal @*#&" neighbor one exclaims. Then the Home Owner's Association Nazi would come along take a picture and I'd get a letter weeks later about how dying yarn in the middle of the street violates section 41 and 53 of our home owner's handbook. So and on to the pictures of my beautifully gaudy yarn!



nice and finished I call it Pepper Mill and if you'd ever eaten at the Pepper Mill on the Las Vegas Strip you'd know why. The assault on the ocular nerves is something of legend.



I used my kitchen chair to skein up the yarn as I have no swift and then wound the ball by hand. :)



and since I hand painted the yarn in longish sections it stripes up. Maybe I could make some rainbow bright leg warmers. :)
I'm sorry but there are no pictures of me actually hand painting the yarn I was obviously just so excited and didn't think about it.
My husband was also fascinated and was talking the whole time about making yarn and selling it, but strangely enough ever since he's seen the final result he hasn't mentioned anything about that again. In defense of the colors they are not exactly what I had envisioned but that is part of the fun, and you try and get exact colors with 4 different colors of food coloring to mix! So I'm off to plan my next hand painted masterpiece.