Ok--
so I always post new pictures on Sunday...OOPS! Anyway, I have some group pictures that I've retaken with the idea that they would TOGETHER make a great project. What do you think of them???? I don't have ton of NEW (only the baby yarn and the blue berry) because I am trying to do some bigger lots and I'm not done with the orange or the red yet!!!! But look for it soon...some really orange stuff and some red/pink variegated...lots of it!
The baby yarn is SOOOOO soft and nice. It is about 15 WPI. I love it.
The blue berry is quite thick and thin and very pretty!!!
So...let me know what you think which pic is better?????
Monday, January 31, 2005
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Sunday...new yarn
Yup, it's Sunday, so new yarn...not as much as some weeks because I have actually run out of old bits and pieces, so these are actually from this week. Additionally my daughter's science fair was this week. Helping with that took some time.
During the experiement I found out some cool stuff...yellow dye is the smallest molecule, next red, next blue. But if you leave any of them for 24 hours you get some helatiously deep colors. WOW!! Blue was almost black...yellow was orange...red was well, red.
This week I tried koolaid as a mordant. This is NOT to say a dye. I picked one of those color changing ones that is pretty worthless to dye with but...the first ingredient in koolaid is ... citric acid. AWESOME cheap source of it. Plus it doesn't smell quite as bad as straight hot vinegar.
anyway, check out the yarn...leave a comment if you like...I always love hearing from people.
rita n/
During the experiement I found out some cool stuff...yellow dye is the smallest molecule, next red, next blue. But if you leave any of them for 24 hours you get some helatiously deep colors. WOW!! Blue was almost black...yellow was orange...red was well, red.
This week I tried koolaid as a mordant. This is NOT to say a dye. I picked one of those color changing ones that is pretty worthless to dye with but...the first ingredient in koolaid is ... citric acid. AWESOME cheap source of it. Plus it doesn't smell quite as bad as straight hot vinegar.
anyway, check out the yarn...leave a comment if you like...I always love hearing from people.
rita n/
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