How To: Dye Your Own Yarn With Household Products
Last week I took a leap of faith and dyed my own yarn! A while ago, I won a bunch of gorgeous, gorgeous yarn from a yarn giveaway (shoutout to Expression Fiber Arts!). In that 10-lb bag of happiness was one cake of DK-weight yarn in color "Ivory" - it's the little round one on the table in the picture. What better way to get into yarn dying than with a risk-free yarn that would (hopefully) turn out to be a luxury, hand-dyed item? So I turned to Google to read countless posts about how to dye your own yarn in order to prepare myself. Here, I regurgitate that process so you, too, can dye your own yarn! You can even over-dye old yarn - just make sure you know how color works so you don't end up with something a little bit horrible. INGREDIENTS yarn (natural fibers) food dye or Kool-Aid white vinegar a pot water latex gloves ( optional , depends on whether you care about food dye fingers) STEP 1 Wind your yarn into a cake or hank. I chose cake, because 1)