Dye Again

Today while talking to my DBF he described to me a sweater that one of his proffessor was wearing saying things such as "it was a nice pattern" and using vocabulary such as "cables". When I commented that I found it amusing that he talks about sweaters with me he goes "I can't help it, you talk about it all the fricken time." So sweet. :-)
In other news, LAst night I tried dying again. Mostly because I wanted to try something more amusing than solid colors. I over dyed my purple yarn with food coloring, setting with vinegar and the oven. I also decided to try my hand at "self striping" dyeing, so I wond my teal skein in into a super long skein, and dyed that according to the recipe in self striping sock tutorials. The lime green is from overdyeing with tumeric, set with salt and vinegar; the dark green is from a concentrated solution of green jello with a few drop of green and blue food coloring, set with vinegar; the purple just classic grape koolaide purple :-). I am very happy with how the color turned out, and have destined the yarn for a birthday project for a friend, and am leaning towards a felted bag, but haven't quite decided yet. Either way I am excited at the success of the dyeing experiments :-)