Dying to knit

The weather today has been better than it has been for a while. It only rained once and we were even able to sit out in the garden for a while this afternoon. Pinkphish, Snaterkat and I some of the natural dyes we got a WoolFest on some sock yarn and laceweight, and also some of the roving I've carded this week. Here are the dyes being mixed up.

Painting the skeins.

We decided to use the dish washer for steaming the yarn, after wrapping it up in plastic bags and a big bin bag.

Then we rinsed.

Now it's hanging up to dry. The roving didn't take the dye as well as the spun yarn, probably because it's still quite greasy with lanolin. It still looks quite good though. It'll be interesting to see if the colour changes as it dries.