Dyeing: Not Fatal
Spurred on by Ravelry, and some wonderful efforts spied, I decided to give dyeing yarn/hand painting a go. Too impatient to wait for an online order of dye to arrive, I opted to use food colourings, as suggested on Knitty. I grabbed my cheap paint brushes, covered the table with rubbish bags, and readied the microwave (as per Justine).
Not too long after finishing work for the day, the three balls wool I ran out to buy in my break (a light grey washable deal) were skeined (an activity that drove Maddy wild) and being coloured with abandon. Each is different, and I'm looking forward to them being dry so I can ball them up and knit! (Update: They're dry now, and you can see the finished skeins to the left.)
I bought a few more different balls of light coloured wool to experiement with, which should be fun. Now that I've done one lot, I can see how vivid the dyes are and can adjust accordingly for my future efforts, and hopefully end up with a (two) sock quantity of custom yarn!
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