Dyeing fun

Not only has Knitpicks introduced more dye-your-own yarns (including superwash sock, which makes me very happy), but they're carrying several colors of Jacquard dyes now, too. So of course, I had to buy some and play with it, since I've been wanting to try professional acid dyes for a while. I bought black, turquoise, magenta, and yellow, since you can mix many colors from the last 3. The results?




Well, that orange was supposed to be yellow. So, I need to play around with mixing colors more. The right skein was first, and I'm not sure about the method I used of dividing the skein into quarters with the dye. Maybe once I've knitted it, I'll like it more. The skein on the left was a sort of 'slap it on, mix it up, squish it around' attempt, using colors from the first skein plus blue. I like it more, especially the vibrant green I got from mixing the orange and green from the first skein (it's the color I was intending there, not such a bright kelly green). One other problem I seem to be having is getting the dyes to penetrate all the way to the center of the yarn, but I should be able to solve that by flipping it over and spreading the threads out more.

After dyeing, I wrapped them in saran wrap and put them in a newly-purchased crockpot (with about 2 inches of water outside the wrap - obviously, you want to wrap them good so no excess water can get in) for 1 hour on high, and about 1 1/2 on low, then left them to sit overnight. So, the question I couldn't find an answer to online: you can put saran wrap in a crockpot without problems.