Fiber Madness

With my husband gone the past few days I’ve been taking liberties with the kitchen. Like making a royal mess, but for such a fun reason. I decided to dye some wool roving in the crockpot I bought exclusively for craft purposes. I had dyed on the stove before, but I was never thrilled with the results. I dyed three different colorways this past week and I have to say, I am extremely pleased. For the record, I used Wilton icing dissolved in water for the dye, added vinegar to the pot and a little splash in the dye bottles, and I pre-soaked in a vinegar solution. Each of these are 4 oz. of wool that I think is Merino, but very well might not be. It’s been a long time since I’ve bought it so I don’t remember.

So we have (clockwise from the left) Mardi Gras, Cicada, and Sedona Sunset:

I am extremely pleased with how this came out, especially the color saturation.   And the dye exhausted each round through the crockpot, so I know it took in everything.  I’m now trying to re-arrange my schedule so I can finish the spinning currently on my wheel, navaho-ply it and start on one of these.  If these come out well, I might dye up some more and put both the rovings and the yarn in Etsy.  It’s been too long since I’ve had items in my store.