Here are the directions I used for self-striping yarn.
I started with 50g of superwash bare wool sock yarn. I was pretty pleased with myself when I pulled this out of the microwave. I can follow directions like a good little yarnie….until I realized that the yarn between the bags must not have been wet enough because the dye did not travel up and there were white spots.

So, I put kool aid in salsa bowls and added HOT water.


And then I was feeling better about things until I pulled it out to wind it and realized, WHAT THE DEVIL?!? Where did all this yellow come from?


So, I took a note from the pros and broke the yarn and removed the extra yellow…as much as I hated to, it was the right call.


I will be quite a bit more relaxed about yarn breaks in future. I shall imagine that they tell a story about a dyer that was overcome with delicious kool-aid fumes and lost track of what they were doing.
Ps. Happy Anniversary to my lovely parents!!!

That was the theme going into my dye day with a friend last Sunday. We ended up not using very much blue, but we did run out of purple kool-aid….and green. The Husband was sweet enough to run to the grocery store and pick up some more while we continued to cook yarn.

Here’s what we ended up with and I’ll post the “recipes” for each over the next few days in case you see something you like.

white became what the dyer thought looked like Wet Dolphin and I want to name Ice Queen

white becomes self-striping rainbow yarn

kermit green became this lovely shade

we spun gray yarn into gold

Blue cowl with rust spots gets purple overtones

Bright pink becomes burnt orange

1. I didn’t love this movie.


2. The chase scene was so poorly done I started to feel sick.

3. This movie felt like a 2 hour Mercedes commercial. Idea for a drinking game: Watch this movie and drink every time you see a Mercedes logo. (Please drink responsibly and always designate a driver.)

4. This is what I was knitting (K2P2 ribbing for the leg of a sock).


5. The Husband and I saw A Good Day to Die Hard at 2pm Saturday with some friends. Then we got together with them that night and watched Live Free or Die Hard because we were in the mood to watch a good Die Hard movie that day. True Story.

Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis.