Hand Dyed Yarn

With all this left over Easter egg dye, I couldn't just dump it!



I dug out a skein of white wool yarn and un-skeined it (is that a word?)




Tied it loosely




dipped each "corner" in one of the primary colors and microwaved for a minute, rested for about 5 minutes, and then microwaved another minute




primary colors done




dipped remaining white areas in the secondary colors




Isn't it beautiful??



Hung to dry

since I still had dye left, I did my last skein of white wool, too!

I don't know for sure what I'll use the yarn for since I hope that I don't have to make any more wool pants!

New Woolies

I have finished up some different wool projects and figured I should share them.

Wonderpants shorts for Andrew. These are little for when he's first born.

Sheepy Sack for bedtimes, so I don't have to get tiny legs into leg holes at 3:00 am!

Sarah asked me to knit some pants for "Tina". These are what I came up with.

Tina modeling her pants!

Sarah and Tina

I figured I should make Emily's doll some pants, too.

Emily's "Tina"

Emily and her doll

Snap Trainer

I have been working on perfecting a training pant for William that has elastic around the legs that opens with snaps so it is easy to get off if we have messy accidents. I made one using a prefold, but the elastic didn't turn out quite right. Then I made one out of an old towel. These have no waterproof layer, so he'll wear them with his wool pants/shorts or alone.

front

back

Inside.

It has 2 layers of knit terry, plus 2 of the towel.

Front view

Side view

Back view

My Wool Yarn Stash

I think I have enough wool yarn! Since I have all the wool longies/shorties from William, I don't really need to knit any more for Andrew. Although I will need to knit some shorts for next summer since William was only in wool for 1 summer (I have him in training pants with plastic attached since the cloth only ones don't have elastic at the legs which doesn't work well for the poopies!) I also would like to make at least 1 more sleep sack (so I can alternate)

Here is the stash!

This is all Paton's Classic Merino (most bought on clearance) except for the bottom row, which is 100Purewool.

First 2 are "Paprika",

Last 3 are "Camel"

The yellow was used for waistbands on the Yellow Jacket pants I made for the 3 kids, so is mostly full. The next 2 are small leftover bits from making the pants. The next hasn't even been wound into a ball! The last is "Gentleman" and never used!

2 balls gray heather, 2 balls black, 2 balls white

(all new)

The colors showed up weird for these, since the first 3 are hunter green, then a royal purple, last is "Denim Marl" (also all new)

These are my partial skeins.

1st was used for ½ of 1 leg of Little Fire longies, 2nd was the waistband for the same pair,

3rd was just the cuffs on Tie Dye longies,

4th is pretty used as I made shorties with it,

5th is mostly full (I think I made a pair of breastpads)

After I took the picture of my stash, I remembered about these!

On the left are Lion Wool from Wal*Mart I got on clearance, the ones in plastic bags I got for $1 each, planning for Patriotic longies.

Even after making some newborn shorts for right away, some more sleep sacks, and shorts for next year, I think I will have a lot of yarn left! I guess I could make something for reenacting, but we haven't done a lot of that lately! I think I need a brainstorm!

My Wool Longies/Shorties Collection

I decided to do an "inventory" of what I have in wool pants/shorts/soakers. Since we're having another boy, all the ones that I had for William would work for Andrew also. Other than William was born in late Fall and Andrew will be born in late Summer.

These are both new for Andrew. The first is a Pink Green Wool Tie Wrap (minus the ties) so it has a adjustable waist.

Rise: 14"
Waist: 12" (smallest)
Hip: 12+"

The 2nd is a Sheepy Sleep Sack (and isn't finished!)




My newborn/smalls.

Top Row:

Blue jeans:
Rise: 13"
waist: 13"
Hip : 16"
inseam: 6.5"

Multi-Colored:
Rise:14"
Waist:15"
Hip: 19.5"
Inseam:6


Bottom Row:

Green:
Rise:15"
Waist:15"
Hip: 18"
Inseam:6.5"

Blue Recycled Sweater:
Rise: 16"
Waist: 15"
Hip: 17"
Inseam: 7"

Crocheted Brillopants:
Rise: 16"
Waist: 18"
Hip: 18"
Inseam:8.5"

Shorts:


Top (got felted):

Rise: 12.5"
Waist: 16"
Hip: 21"

Bottom:

Rise: 14"
Waist:16.5"
Hip: 23"








Mediums:


Purple/Yellow:

Rise:16"
Waist:17"
Hip: 20"
Inseam:7"



Blue/Green/Purple:
Rise:16"
Waist:17"
Hip: 23"
Inseam:6"

Crocheted Little Fire:
Rise: 19"
Waist: 18"
Hip: 21"(but it has short rows)
Inseam: 6.5"

Larges:


Blue Sweater Pants:

Rise:17"
Waist:18.5"
Hip: 25"
Inseam: 8.5"






Purple/Yellow:
(these were made for Emily)

Rise:16.5"
Waist:17"
Hip: 23"
Inseam:8"

Tie-Dye Yarn Longies

I have sidetracked myself from my Tie-Dye Yarn longies so many times, I decided I should update you on where I started!

I used left over dye from tie-dying t-shirts to dye some wool yarn.

The yarn was balled up and ready to knit on August 20, 2008

Here was my progress on the longies on Sept 5, 2009.

And finally finished on January 10, 2009! I knew I was going to run out of my tie-dyed yarn, so I bought a coordinating color (its actually a bright turquoise color) to make wide cuffs to make them long enough.

Pink Green Wool Tie Wrap

I beta tested a knit wool tie wrap for PinkGreen . I made a large, but I think I should have made a medium instead! It is simple to work and easy to get a nice tight fit.




It is 19.5" long and 20" wide.

















Since this is the type of shot I get when I try to take standing up shots, I had to lay Will down!




















Front

















Side

Back

Little Fire Longies

I finished the Little Fire Longies that I was beta testing. They worked up nice, but I had to make the gusset narrower than the pattern called for in order to get the right number of stitches for each leg. I made them with Patons Classic Merino.




Front view





















Side view shows the back is bigger


















Back view on William
















Side view on William


I like how there is more room for his diapered butt!













The only way I could get a front view was to lay William down because he kept walking toward me!



















Aren't I cute in my camo pants??