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Bright yarn

Sun, and bright blue skies! Iā€™m in the mood for some bright yarn and some Reggae music from Jamaica ! So pick a song from the top 25 this week and get some sunshine into your life. So I got my dye pot out, and decided to try some kettle dyeing! I used the kettle dyeing tutorial from Fiber Feverā€™s blog (throwing knit fits since 2006). It is easy and understandable. So with just this amount of info, I got startedā€¦ I quickly found the red dye over powers everything else, I was trying to half orange and half red. But I like the extreme vivid colors, I found if I didnā€™t stir it in and let it ā€œsettleā€ on top, and then stuck a chopstick in straight down, and just ā€œwiggledā€ it a little, the dye dispersed without getting too even. Then I tried some blue and green, ooo pretty. Iā€™m trying to keep a little white in it for more variation, and the colors look cleaner.   This pot has 1/3 red and 1/3 orange, 1/3 yellow, just a little wiggle, and then after bringing to a s...