Easter dyeing

I bought an Easter egg color. For dyeing Easter eggs.


But then I decided not to waste such a nice blue color on eggs and also stop pretending that I keep these traditions. I used it for dyeing yarn, naturally.


DROPS Fabel was the choice. The only white yarn I have that I don´t necessarily want to stay white.


I had to unwind it. Tedious...

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Now there should have been a thorough picture report but I was so caught up in the process that I completely forgot to take the pictures.
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Basically I immersed each hank into a separate jar full of water with citric acid and some dye. There was a different ammnout of dye in each jar. I cooked the jars in a big pot for about an hour. At first I wanted to do it like this but I would have to spoil the one and only big pot we have. The color is harmless but I didn´t want to explain everybody that they shouldn´t be afraid to use the blue pot for cooking meals. I eat a lot of pickles so I have a lot of glass jars. So glass jars were the way to go.

Tadaaa! Nice gradient. This will be a great shawl.