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Dyeing With Kool-Aid

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Dyeing yarn has been on my mind for a while now. I remember taking a course on dyeing and finishing of textiles in the university roughly 10 years ago. As a part of the exercise of the course we dyed samples of wool fabric with acid dyes. So this prompts the idea of dyeing yarn myself. However I decided to take an easy start and dye with food coloring, to be precise with Kool-Aid. I got 20 different flavors, even thou some of the colors were technically same. I tested 10 g skeins in four colors: white, natural white, beige, and light gray. I also had 20 g skein of white to dye one end of the skein. The rule of thumb is to use one package of Kool-Aid for 50 g skein. There were tons of instructions on the Internet, but the basics are the same. First the skeins were soaked in warm water from 10 min to 1 h. First skeins I soaked for about 30 min and after taking them out I always put new skeins in. I warmed up about 1,5 l of water almost to the boiling point and then...
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N7 Socks

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N7 Socks Mass Effect… the game series that I’m very fond of. And I’m taking about the original trilogy (Oh Andromeda what a wasted potential). I was already familiar with Bioware’s games like Neverwinter Nights, and it was natural that at some point I would play those games. Between me and my partner, who actually introduced me to Bioware’s games, he is the bigger fan. Therefore I thought I would make him N7 socks since these are pretty simple to make. These socks are actually version number 2 since the first ones were a little bit too loose. So this time, I made more ribbing on the leg. Other than that the rest of the pattern is done like a basic wool sock. The N7 logo is sewn afterwards using duplicate stiches. Only thing that is left now is the test run, so will see how the sock perform and do I still need to do some “product development”. I used Novita 7 Brothers yarn in black color for the base of the sock. For the N7 logo used some leftover and embro...
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Jack Frost Mittens

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So here it is! My very first pattern design: JackFrost Mittens . This has been up in my Ravelry page for a while, but now I finally wrote the pattern. The chart is made with Stich Fiddle . Jack Frost is a recurring character from Shin Megami Tensei franchise. I actually haven’t played that many SMT games (So far IV , Devil Survivor and also the crossover Tokyo Mirage Sessions ), but I have a stack of waiting and the fifth is coming (hopefully we get more info on E3). This is for DK weight yarn in blue, white and black. Also little bit of yellow yarn for the embroidered smiley is needed. I used Novita's Nalle for this project. I first started with 4 double pointed needles but the time the pattern of the back of the hand started I used one needle instead of 2. This is to not to have the line between the needles show up.   This is a little problem I have while knitting with double pointed needles. Of course this varies with yarns and techniques. For ensample I knitt...
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