so pretty! thanks foxyie
These three are the tester skeins for the colorways I’ll be selling at the LYS.
And these two were my first attempts at non-KA dyeing… I wanted something more muted and I got these lovely colors.
those are beautiful!
I’ve been seeing a lot of yarns & roving being braided - how do you keep the colors so separate? Are each of them separate skeins or a single skein??
cristeen those are lovely! i am curious too about how you braid your skeins… any tips or tutorials?
Yes, how DO you do that? Do tell!! 
OK, please tell me how you get TWO or 3 colors on one skein!
I would love to get some bright blue and green and turquoise colors all on one skein.
Like the very first photo, jeanius, the colors are great.
How do you do that jeanius?
for that effect, i just made a long skein (loop) and made sure to tie off loosely in a few spots (usually 4) Then just add the dye! I am careful to keep them from running into each other. with similar color goups, it’s not too bad. But when you are using contrasting color, like red and green ect, you’ll end up with muddy colors. Just go slowly and carefully! It’ always fun 
I am completely unaware of how to combine colors.
And, end up with a 2 or 3 color skein.
i think i get what you are saying LOL sorry!
I dye by soaking my yarn first, then gently squeezing out the excess water. I mix my dyes with hot water while the yarn is soaking. Then lay the yarn loop on a surface you have prepared to dye on (newspaper old towels, even cookie cooling rack are great!) then you add the dye to the yarn where ever you want! this method is painting as opposed to immersion or crockpot/kettle dying. After you have applied the dye, you’ll want to carefully wrap the yarn in a microwavable plastic wrap (or place in an oven proof container. i haven’t tried the oven method) and zap it 2 times at 1 minutes intervals with about 1 minute in between. take out, let it cool off then rinse.
i just noticed you live in Florida. On warm/hot days, you could even place the wet, dyed yarn outside and wrap it in a black garbage bag. This will heat it up slower, but you’ll be using solar power instead of electricity or gas as your heat source! Here in the chilly NW, i don’t get to do this often 
i handpaint my yarn in big trays with restaurant sized cooling racks laid over them, using big brushes (it still takes a while, lol). i soak my yarns but then roll them so they’re mostly dry, paint, and leave just the finest white area in between colors – this way, i get a blend right up to the line but you can still run pink and green up to each other without getting baby poop brown in the middle
I just dyed up some Knit Picks Bare this weekend that will stripe yellow and brown using Wilton’s food dye. I can’t wait to knit it up! Here’s a photo:
I blogged the whole process (unfortunately no pics) so you can see how I did it here.
I skein up my yarn into 8 foot skeins and then tie them off depending on how I plan on dyeing them. Most of my 3 color skeins are just dividing the skein into thirds, so that when it knits up the colors go ABCBA. The 4 color skein and the 6 color skein though I tie off the skein so that I have a big circle instead of a long line. That way it knits up ABCDA. The circle is about 16 feet long, so I divide it in however many pieces I want and mark the lengths with a piece of contrasting yarn. Then I’ll take the section I want to dye, put the two marks together and dip just that section into the dye bath. You can do more than one section at a time if you like, but you have to be careful you don’t wind up with a strip of un-dyed between the colors.
To make the 3-braid is fairly easy, there’s a YouTube video on it, but I’ll try to describe it… you just fold the skein into thirds so that on the top you’re holding a fold and a loose end and hanging down you have a fold and a loose end. Tuck the loose end into the fold and just start braiding. You will periodically have to untangle the dangling ends. When you get down to the bottom, braid as far as you can, then tuck the loose end through the fold. I always make sure I have the starting end of the yarn at the bottom of the braid so I can tie it off.
The 4-braid was a little more difficult. I actually had a large circle and wanted to showcase the separate colors, so I folded each color section in half so that I had a large X with each leg a different color, then I started braiding. Google four strand braid if you don’t know how to do it. Tie it off when you get to the end. I actually had to have my DH hold this one while I braided it, it didn’t want to braid nicely for me.
I have a couple skeins of 6-color here, I’ll have to get some pictures of them later.
Ok, here are two new skeins. First is a 6-color superwash.
This is the same colors (more or less) but on a regular wool. This is a single skein folded in half.
your yarns are so pretty, cristeen! do you or are you planning on selling anytime? i love the braids, what a great way to show off the colors.
JGM- i love your striping sock! it’ll be great to see it knitted up too 
Actually the superwash is for the LYS. They specifically requested superwash. I’ve stopped by several other LYS and asked if they were interested, and was asked if I had an etsy, so I imagine I will get one fairly soon. I have to finish up the superwash for the LYS before I can start on anything else, though. So far all the non-superwash wool is my personal stash.
So, to answer your question, I haven’t sold any yet, but it is in the plan. I need to do another Knitpicks order soon.
This is the youtube video I found on it if anyone would like.
great dyes guys! :teehee:
and thanks for the link kashadilla , i think i’m going to try that sometime soon.
these are a few i’ve worked on in the past 2 weeks
and this one is my favorite! a custom dye order i just did for my favorite customer on etsy
i did about 5 or so other skeins as well but i didn’t want to overload this post anymore!
thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed!
i dyed up the top three to be used as stripes and ribbing on drive thru sweaters for my dd and nieces. base yarn is lion brand lion wool, winter white(?)
I used a combo of jacquard acid dyes (sapphire blue, sky blue, vermilion and sun yellow). I love the end products!
I liked the purple so much that i over dyed some khaki Queensland Uruguayan DK with it. I ended up with 2 skeins in a lovely plum! I’ll be making fingerless mitts out of it for me
:cheering:
[B][I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]Very nice…you’re a[COLOR=purple] GENIUS[/COLOR] ! :teehee: [/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B]
love the plum!
[B]Bleeding Heart…Valentine yarn [/B]
[I][COLOR=#ff6666][FONT=arial]I did a little kool-aid dyeing again today, and I’m ecstatic with the results ! [/FONT][/COLOR][/I]
[I][COLOR=#ff6666][FONT=arial]I had pink in mind, so I started out with a packet of pink lemonade, mixed it with 16 ounces of water and poured it onto the vinegar-water-soaked skein in a random pattern, making a point of leaving some white areas. Liking that color as a backdrop, but knowing that pink and white is a little tame for my liking, I mixed a couple of packets of cherry with 8 ounces of water, and then ‘dolloped’ it onto the yarn. [/FONT][/COLOR][/I]
[I][COLOR=#ff6666][FONT=arial]Now that it is dry, the red is intense, just the way I like it, and the light areas are just wonderful, too…there’s a little more white left in it than what shows in this photo. Eventually, I’ll share a photo of the project I knit with it…probably Valentine socks for myself. [/FONT][/COLOR][/I]