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Dyeing Yarn With East Egg Dyes
Greetings! My Daughter and I dyed yarn with East Egg dyes again. I will share the pictures below
Gather your materials. We had some leftover bottes from a tie dye project several years ago and some cheep dollar store dye kits work great. The yarn is Knit Picks Bare Stroll Fingering Weight Yarn.
Soak the yarn with cold water and 1/8th cup of vinegar for about 30 minutes
Mix the dye tablets with 1 teaspoon vinegar and fill bottle with hot tap water AFTER the vinegar has dissolved the tablet
I was really disappointed that we didn’t get a shade of purple and the pink was really lack luster. However, we ended up with two shades of blue that were really pretty.
To heat set the dye add about 6 cups of water to the bottom of the pan and then cook it on the stove top until it starts steaming. DO NOT LET IT BOIL! Then turn the heat off, add a cover, and let it cool down to room temp.
The yarn looks interesting while it’s still wet but it dried beautifully.
I’m really pleased with the results and the blue one is my favorite. I did achieve a small amount of purple by layering blue dye over the pink dye in a few spots. If I were to do it again I would mix the pink and a blue together! Over all I got what I paid for and I can’t complain too much. I usually use Jacquard Acid dyes but this was a fun child friendly adventure.
Scrappy Marl Hats
Greetings! I knit several more scrappy hats over the last several days. Here is my previous post with pattern information
Baby Hat & Sweater
Greetings! I’m still having a lot of trouble with WordPress. I can’t get the jetpack or WordPress apps to work at all and the browser on my apple device isn’t much better. I am currently logged in on another computer after uploading my pictures to via my own device. I have been blogging a bit on tumblr but it doesn’t have the same creative community that I have on WordPress. * funny that they actively tell conservatives not to follow their knitting blogs.
ANYHOW, I am very pleased with the results of this little baby cardigan. The free pattern was clearly written and easy to follow. I think that any advanced knitter would be able to knit it with no problems. The same goes for the little hat pattern by Tin Can Knits.
Sweater Project Notes:
- Project Started – 3/8/2024
- Project Completed – 3/11/2024
- Pattern – Sweater/Short Notice and Hat/Barley
- Designer – Sweater/Taiga Hilliard and Hat/Tin Can Knits
- Needles – US 7/4.5 mm
- Yarn – Knit Picks Brava – Worsted Weight
- Colorways – Cake Pop Speckle & Canary
- Amount of Yarn Used – 142 grams
- Recipient – baby gift
- Size – 6 months
- Notes/Modifications – I added a contrast color
- Ravelry Link
This week I also knit a pendant bunting with some Knit Picks Brava minis
OOOPs I Did It Again
Greetings! Earlier this week I shared my stash update. I managed to whittle my way down to 614 grams or the equivalent of just over 6 skeins of sock yarn.
So, to celebrate I took advantage of some leap day sales at Knit Picks and bought 13,000 grams of yarn. Yeah, that’s an insane amount of yarn but in my defense I only shop for yarn once a year. What I purchase is what I have to use for the year so I plan ahead I use a spreadsheet to do the math for me.
I bought enough bare yarn to knit a pair of socks or a fingering weight hat every week for the next year. I knit a lot of both for gifts so that was my first priority.
I also bought a bunch of Brava yarn to knit baby gifts and donation hats. I might make a few adult sweaters too. Time will tell!
Pairs 171 – 172 – 173
Greetings! This week I knit three tiny pairs of baby socks to match three baby hats. Oh my goodness are they adorable. Seriously, they are making my overlies hurt. I can’t wait to have a new baby in the family.
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/29/2024
- Project Completed – 3/5/2024
- Pattern – improvised
- Designer – improvised
- Needles – US 2/2.75 mm – DPN’s
- Method – top down/DPN’s/Heel flap and gusset
- Yarn – Knit Picks Bare Stroll Fingering Weight
- Dyed with – Jacquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 52 grams
- Recipient – gift box
- Size – 0 – 3 months
- Ravelry Link
These socks are paired with Musselburgh #15
These socks are paired with Musselburgh #16
These socks are paired with Musselburgh #17
! Major Yarn Stash Update !
Greetings! On September 18th 2019 I decided that I needed to downsize my enormous yarn stash. I wish that I would have added up how many grams of yarn that I had at this point but I didn’t. However, if I remember correctly I had over 600 skeins of yarn at this point.
1631 days later I have 614 grams or just over 6 skeins of yarn left. I figure that it will take me close to a month to use the remainder of this yarn in these scrappy blankets.
I have a new glass jar to store my scraps of yarn in. I would like to keep that situation from getting out of control again.
To celebrate my successful yarn stash downsizing I took advantage of some leap day sales at Knit Picks and bought a bunch of yarn! I will share all of that yarn after it arrives.
Scrappy Marled Hat
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/26/2024
- Project Completed – 2/27/2024
- Pattern – Scrappy Marl
- Designer – Beata Jezek
- Needles – US 6/4.00 mm
- Method – magic loop
- Yarn – Bare Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Weight held double
- Dyed with – Jaquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 60 grams
- Recipient – Son
- Size – one size
- Notes/Modifications – did the decreases with ssk and k2tog
- Ravelry Link
Chevron Hat
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/22/2024
- Project Completed – 2/24/2024
- Pattern – Pom Pom Chevron
- Designer – Mariana Martins
- Needles – US 3/3.25 mm
- Method – magic loop
- Yarn – Bare Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Weight
- Dyed with – Jacquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 35 grams
- Recipient – Me
- Size – one size
- Notes/Modifications – added two stitches and knit a 2×2 hat cuff then I decreased to 130 sts and continued with the pattern.
- Ravelry Link
Scrappy Marled Hat
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/25/2024
- Project Completed – 2/26/2024
- Pattern – Scrappy Marl
- Designer – Beata Jezek
- Needles – US 6/4.0 mm
- Method – magic loop
- Yarn – Bare Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Weight held double
- Dyed with – Jaquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 57 grams
- Recipient – Son
- Size – one size
- Notes/Modifications – did the decreases with ssk and k2tog
- Ravelry Link
Zigi Hat
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/20/2024
- Project Completed – 2/22/2024
- Pattern – Zigi Hat
- Designer – Comfort Zone Knits
- Needles – US 6/4.00 mm
- Method – both magic loop and in the round for the color work portion of the hat
- Yarn – Bare Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Weight held double
- Dyed with – Jacquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 70 grams
- Recipient – Husband
- Size – 108 sts
- Notes/Modifications – holding two strands of fingering weight yarn together instead of dk weight yarn
- Ravelry Link
Scrappy Marled Hat
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/19/2024
- Project Completed – 2/19/2024
- Pattern – Scrappy Marl
- Designer – Beata Jeazek
- Needles – US 6/4.0 mm
- Method – magic loop
- Yarn – Bare Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Weight
- Dyed with – Jacquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 63 grams
- Recipient – Son
- Size – one size
- Notes/Modifications – I changed the decreases to ssk & k2tog
- Ravelry Link
Brecon Mittens
Project Notes:
- Project Started – 2/13/2024
- Project Completed – 2/18/2024
- Pattern – Brecon Mittens
- Designer – Britstitchery
- Needles – US 2/2.75 mm
- Method – magic loop
- Yarn – Knit Picks Bare Stroll (fingering weight)
- Dyed with – Jacquard Acid Dyes
- Amount of Yarn Used – 48 grams
- Recipient – Daughter
- Size – 60 sts
- Notes/Modifications – none
- Ravelry Link
365 Knit Socks 