Sunshine, no Snowflakes!

                             

I pulled out the dyeing equipment to get a bit ahead for the Christmas season!

I pulled the bare skein out to dye it in Fall colors and thought.....I missed the timing on that;  I wanted something that would be timed so the socks could be worn when I was done! 

After soaking the yarn, I squeeze most of the water out by hand.  Then I lay it down and carefully

add the color, turning the skein by hand often to make sure it doesn't miss some areas of the section I wanted to saturate.

I like to do this all stretched out like this so that the excess dyes doesn't muddy the skein like it can when you leave it in the container .  I give it a squeeze over the covered counter and then lay it down for the microwave time. 

See?  It isn't laying in a lake that would turn the bottom of the skein a very unwanted mud color!

I microwaved it and then let it cool on the counter.

I rinsed it by section and the green had absorbed all its dye but the red was still bleeding so it went back into the microwave for another 2 minutes.

This time when it cooled, there was no red in the rinse water!

I laid it out in the sun to dry! 

What do you think?

It is just what I was hoping for! 

You can see an interesting section in the green transition area...the blue showed up for a bit of interest;  I use blue and yellow to make my greens so they can break when you apply them.  It is just a bit of serendipity that makes dyeing fun!

(I wanted to try a bit of speckle between the colors for the transition area;  now I can't wait to get it on the needles to see how it works up!)