{"id":682,"date":"2011-03-22T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-03-22T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:29:59","slug":"my-newest-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"My Newest Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I decided to finally bust out the crock pot and do some yarn dyeing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve dyed yarn once or twice before, and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed it, but I&#8217;ve never really been serious about it.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s about to change.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with some nice white wool yarn, which I wound into super long skeins.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not exactly sure why I decided to hang them from the curtain rod, but Monkey Kitty sure was curious.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-683\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020525\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"P1020525\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After taunting the cat a bit more, I plopped the yarn into the crock pot and added some water and vinegar.\u00a0 Turns out, my crock pot will hold about 450 yards of worsted weight yarn (although it would probably prefer less, the crock pod doesn&#8217;t actually get a vote in this scenario).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-684\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020528\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-684\" title=\"P1020528\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After letting it get sufficiently warm and steamy, I decided to start with some blue dye, in a relatively random pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-685\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020537\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-685\" title=\"P1020537\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I added some green dye, because green is the best color.\u00a0 Anyone who says different is lying or delusional.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-686\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020540\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"P1020540\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I did something that anyone who knows anything about wool or dyeing or washing sweaters would tell you was wrong: I took a chopstick and I gave it a good stir.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like the white spots in the original color placement, and I didn&#8217;t want such distinct color patches either.\u00a0 Plus, I figured this would be a good experiment to figure out if it was really that easy to just felt yarn.\u00a0 Worst case scenario, I was out a couple of skeins.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-687\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020542\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" title=\"P1020542\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Then<\/em>, I added some yellow.\u00a0 Because, you know, I&#8217;m never satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-688\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020546\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-688\" title=\"P1020546\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also totally stirred it again after that.\u00a0 And then I let the yarn soak up the dye in its nice warm bath.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-689\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/my-newest-obsession\/p1020548\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689\" title=\"P1020548\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1020548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happened next?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to save that for next time.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a hint, though: what do you think I could make from 450 yards of worsted weight awesome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I decided to finally bust out the crock pot and do some yarn dyeing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve dyed yarn once or twice before, and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed it, but I&#8217;ve never really been serious about it. I think that&#8217;s about to change. It all started with some nice white wool yarn, which I wound into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dyeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}