Spring Fever

It is 71 degrees here today, yup it is the middle of March. This is completely crazy, last year at this time we were still trekking through mountains of snow! This past weekend though was horrible rainy and drab, I bet you will never guess what I did. I dyed some yarn! This time around I used food coloring and egg dye. Though I was a total blonde and tried to dye cotton yarn (yes I know the horror, how can I be so naive!) Other then that though all of my yarn turned out amazing!

Have to admit thought the smell of vinegar almost made me sick at times, it gets so much worse when it gets warm. I feel like someone should tell you about before you start dying. I am so sad about the cotton yarn not working because I used the egg dye on those. The color didn't completely wash out so I will snap some pictures later.

I had some pretty high-tech drying techniques, after a day in the shower they still weren't dry so I stuck them outside. My sister thought I was crazy at first but now she has laid claim to almost all the yarn I dyed. I think if she had it her way everything I ever knit would be hers. Silly siblings.  I hope you all are having as wonderful time as I am with this nice weather!

- Zoey

Kool Kids

So first of all I hope you all are having a wonderful March! This means I only have three months left of high school! It is pure and total craziness going on! Part of me is so excited to finally be done with high school, while another part of me is scared of what comes next. My mom keeps telling me to calm down, but still I just can't help thinking of worse case endings. Hopefully none of that will happen.

On a wonderful and happy note I dyed my first yarn the other day. I got the original hand-spun from a lovely women. The color was just not something I could see myself using so I took the jump and dyed it with some grape kool-aid. First of all it smelled wonderful, I mean grape kool-aid always smells amazing so getting to work with it for a reason rocked.

I probably watched ten youtube videos on how to dye yarn because I was so scared of messing it all up. First you bring the water and kool-aid packet up to a simmer in a pan (And try not to shove your face in the yummyness) Then drop the yarn in and stare at it until all the color in the water is gone. It only took me about twenty minutes to do the whole part, but I cranked my heat up and once it started simmering turned it down. I am not sure you are supposed to do that... oh well! Then you rinse it in the sink and hang it to dry.

Then tada! New blue-purple yarn that still smells like grape deliciousness. I simply can not wait to knit with this gorgeous yarn, I must work on that tiny wrap first though!

Happy March 4th everyone, and go have yourself some kool-aid!

-Zoey