Spoon was a waste of time!
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The day I found out Nana passed away, I was visiting my sister and her family. I was teaching one of my nephews to knit (I had shown them crocheting before) and we also dyed some yarn. Later on when we actually got The Call, this nephew, M. and I were kneading dough to make pizzas- which is something I pretty much always do when I go up there. (Remind me to show you the Manta Ray Pizza that M. made!) Anyway, Nana would have appreciated all this fun kitcheny creativity going on.
It was cool when we looked online we saw Pea Soup of the Day’s tutorial on how to dye yarn with food colouring. It was cool, she showed her son getting into the dyeing. Boys like yarn too, see!
So here we are trying to dye wool. We gave up on the spoon, that was silly. We were trying to get like stripes, but it wasn’t working, so we ended up just pouring the dye on.
I was my brilliant idea to leave some white spaces, those didn’t come out- but the cool thing is, we got purple! And we only had blue and green food colouring! Somehow if you make the blue really really strong, you’ll get purple. Looks like some blue food colouring also contains red! More scientifical food-colouring info here: Using Food Coloring as a Textile Dye for Protein Fibers
Easy peasy:
Boil:
Let cool before rinsing:
I think leaving the white spaces was genious! Give a lovely subtlety to the colour transitions. Purple from green and blue – who knew?