summer evening skies

summer evening skies
Originally uploaded by nanawoolf.

this is how it looks if I am too lazy to skein up the balls of yarn before dyeing.

I toss it into a soak with some shampoo so the appreture goes out the fiber and it is wetted down thoroughly, I rinse it in the same temperature water and squeeze as dry as possible.
It is still damp then, but not dripping wet any more, since it is supposed to soak up the dye in the water I will dipe it into.
So if you have an old salad twister, or however this thing is called, you can take out water by using centrifugal forces and then it lands in the dye-bath.

For this one I had some orange left, some violet (the red from this mix had exhausted to the original yarn i was dyeing) which turned out rather darkish blue, so I put the blue side into the red that was leftover, too, and it made a nice variegated violet with more or less red and blue parts.
This always is a random process, but so far all yarns knitted up in a nice variegated way, so I hope this one does, too.
Next post will be about how this looks wound into a center pull ball on my makeshift nostepinde (a pen of unknown origin) .