TIAS - Day One

I am participating in a TIAS (Tat It And See) where a small portion of the pattern is revealed each day until the whole project is finished.  The patterns are given here and you can look here to see other people's progress on their TIAS.  I am using some of the thread that I hand dyed.

HDT (Hand Dyed Thread)

When we tie-dyed shirts, I wanted to do some thread, too.  I had picked up some cotton thread in size 20 and 30.  I wound off 2 50 yard hanks of each size and then decided to just dye the rest of each ball also (So about 300 yds).

Pre-soak in warm water

Emily dying the thread

Wrapped in Saran Wrap

Emi dying a ball of thread

Waiting for 8 hours

Getting ready to rinse

My small hanks drying

Big balls drying

My 50 yd hanks 

My balls

The Orange/Pink ball was *really* snarled and knotted

The Purple/Green ball wound off pretty freely

It got tiring winding the spools by hand, so I put the spool on my sewing machine

And used my finger to spin the spool to wind the thread

Large spools are Size 30 (Orange/Pink) and Size 20 (Purple/Green)
Small spools are: Left: size 20, Right: size 30