Dyeing with Scout

I was lucky enough to take an introductory yarn dyeing class this weekend at Knit One One. The teacher? Oh, just a little indie dyer from Albequrque. You might have heard of her... Scout!!!



There she is! Scout's a great teacher and really made us feel like we could take on this dyeing thing and the results wouldn't be total crap.



Here she's showing us how to use a warping board to make self striping skeins. (Just don't take the yarn off prematurely!)



This is the venerable Tapmouse at work!



Of course, Scout brought us some of her goodies!!! But more on that later.

So here's how you dye...



Soak yarn.



Mix dyes. Wear a mask for this part or you'll be blowing purple out your nose for awhile!



Spread out your skein on Reynolds plastic wrap and go to town!



The Scout let us loose to dye our own...



Adrienne's



Elaine's

Then, pop your skein into the microwave with a steam bath. Eh, Viola!!!!! You dyed yarn. Disclaimer- You should probably read the directions for whatever dye you use. I'm just sayin'.



Leave your yarn out in the sun to dry before trying to knit with it.



I think we did a pretty good job for first skeins!



My self striping skein



This will be self striping too. But I tried it on a Knit Picks Sock Blank. Cool, huh? I wound the yarn up on Monday night (without incident!). I can't wait to see how it knits up. But the best part of the day was meeting some of my bloggy friends- Marisol and Leslie. And of course, the Y Knit boys! If you listen to an upcoming episode, you might just hear me!

And you know I couldn't pass up a chance at some of Scout's yarn.



Marmalade



Smashbox



Watermelon Mt.

All in all, it turned out to be a great time!

**I'll apologize now for the crappy photos. I only had my phone. Anyone have a little point and shoot digital camera that they love? I'm in the market.