||HomeHand-dyed yarns are sooooo gorgeous, with their custom hues and rich blends of colors, every knitter longs to work with them, but once someone has brought home an armful of precious skeins, what next?
 | Elaine Eskesen demystifies hand-dyed yarns, providing
both down-to-earth practical information and reassuring encouragement to knitters
so they can trust their own creative instincts. The book begins with a section on the basics of color and how various colors work together, then a detailed of dyeing with acid dyes including how various natural fibers react to the dyes, setting up a simple dye area, preparing the yarn and techniques for solid colors, making your own colors, space or rainbow dye, hand paint, overdye, tie-dye, squirting, the "Jackson Pollock" effect and sprinkle dye. "The Design Phase" section includes information and suggestions on how to use the yarn you've dyed. It is followed with a pattern section which can be used as written or as a starting point to individualize other patterns. Dyeing to Knit is a hardcover book with 128 pages and 178 color
illustrations, 8-3/4" x 10". see the Jacquard Acid Dyes |