Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Out of the dye pot

I am currently involved in two yarn swaps with the themes "Spring" and "A painting of your choice"

I thought i would try out some acid dyes for the firs time for these swaps and i am SUPER impressed with the results.

For the painting swap, my swapee chose this painting as inspiration
Image and video hosting by TinyPic

here is the yarn drying after dyeing it

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Amd reskiened ready to go!

Image and video hosting by TinyPic


For the "Spring" swap i decided to go for a "Lion in the Meadow' theme with golden yellows and grassy greens.

here it is being rinsed....

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Drying.......
Image and video hosting by TinyPic

And i cant believe i didnt take a photo of it all balled up before sending! doh!

i have so far recieved my "Spring" swap and it was to "dye" for ;)
It was themed "lettuce seedlings"

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Cant wait to recieve my painting one!

2 comments:

Rachael (weegee) said...

Oh they are beautiful! I especially love the lavendar fields one. Makes me want to learn to knit ;-)

Hannah said...

aww thanks!! i am super proud of them too :)

You really should learn how to knit, ive only been knitting for 4 months or so but completly addicted hehe.

Learning is the easy part, deciding what projects to cast on when you have 100 in your queue is the hard part hahaha