Live and Let Dye

Ok seriously, some people pay to have people seam up sweaters they've knitted, I need to pay someone to do titles for me.

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I have to admit, the ghetto Kool-Aid cake (the candy cane striped one in the front) is my favorite. The other happy yarn cakes of goodness turned out really well and much softer than you'd image after being tortured in dye (all be it natural) and hot water. The two yellow cakes are finding their purpose in the world's cutest baby hat. I'm sure the others will find their calling shortly.

As you sit transfixed by the candy-cane striped skein, you'll be happy to know that I'm perfecting the Kool-Aid dying recipe and will post as soon as I'm done with my experimentation. While you wait anxiously for that nugget of information, I will warn you that winding home-dyed yarn is a wee more challenging than winding usual yarn-store yarn. I mean, the skeins held. They didn't tangle or anything so they went onto the swift quite easily, but the winding itself was a bit of a negotiation between the yarn and I. If you must know, the bright yellow one and I had some choice words.

See, its not all the fault of the bright yellow skein. I accidentally started to felt the bright yellow skein while rinsing the dye out. FYI, don't do that. As someone who has both intentionally machine and hand felted items, I didn't think this would be a problem. I mean, if you've ever felted you know what I mean. When you're trying to felt something, it takes for freakin' ever. But, if you're not trying...yeah...hot water and wool really should be treated gently. But, despite the wee felting, the yarn is super soft and fabulous to knit with.