: After soaking the yarn for an hour, I placed it in my dyeing pot, where the water with citric acid was at the point of boiling. I had prepared three solutions of yellow, orange and red (which turned to be more magenta than red really, it came from an egg dyeing tablet, not my usual acid dye). I poured 2/3 of each cup of dye along the sides of the pot, trying to assign one third of the pot for each dye.
: After the dye had been exhausted I added the remaining 1/3 of each cup to fill in the gaps, trying to cover most of the yarn with dye.
: After all of the dye had been absorbed by the yarn, I took the yarn out of the pot and let it cool off for a while. In the meantime I added more citric acid to the pot and 1/4 cup of black dye.
: I made two knots in the dyed skein to provide some resist, took a deep breath and dipped the yarn into the black dye
: The result is this colorful skein, with some of the yellow, orange and magenta of the initial dyeing preserved due to the resist knots, plus the new colors from the black glazing - purple, green and brown.
: To me this speaks tropical and I love it! I'm eager to explore further the possibilities of this dyeing method.
: I've already cast on a pair of socks - Hermione's everyday socks, a free and very popular pattern on Ravelry:
This yarn is very rich in color. How fun it must have been for you.
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