A few months ago a friend gave me some white wool yarn to dye naturally. I wanted to use dye materials easily found at a grocery store. I've finally gotten around to it and here are the before and after pictures. I started out with white woolen yarn, some with a bit of nylon in it or other fibre.
So far I've used turmeric powder, frozen wild blueberries and dried hibiscus flowers to colour the yarn. The green was made with a mix of turmeric powder and blueberries and the orange/brown was made with a mix of turmeric and hibiscus. I used alum to fix the colours.
I still have a bit of white yarn left and I'm deciding what to try next. Apparently avocadoes skins and pits make a nice pale peach/pink colour. And black beans make a nice blue colour but I already have blue. Hmm we'll have to see. I'm hoping my friend will knit something with it. Thanks for stopping by!
1 comment:
Wow... I'm thrilled. I'll be looking forward to a large amount to actually knit with :)
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