Today was a dying day.We dyed wool roving and wool yarn with cake food coloring.
It starts with soaking the raw material in a vinegar water solution, overnight is optimal.
Then you lay it on some microwaveable plastic wrap.
The food coloring is dissolved in hot water, and applied with foam sponges.
After this, more plastic wrap goes over the top and sealed around the edges.
The packages are microwaved about 2 min at a time on high in glass bowls. The glass containers were allowed to cool off a bit between the "cooking."
All of mine started with stripes after I tripled
the roving to fit on the plastic
Some of us wore gloves to keep
the dye from staining us.
This is my favorite of my rovings that I had dyed. Can't wait to spin it up!
Here are the finished products hanging out to dry.
Here's the roving spun up and ready to ply.
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