{"id":4791,"date":"2013-03-03T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2013-03-03T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:03:28","slug":"rainbow-yarn-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4791","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Yarn Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyeyouryarn.com\/self-striping.html\" title=\"directions to dye self-striping yarn\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the directions I used for self-striping yarn.<\/a><br \/>\nI started with 50g of superwash bare wool sock yarn. I was pretty pleased with myself when I pulled this out of the microwave. I can follow directions like a good little yarnie&#8230;.until I realized that the yarn between the bags must not have been wet enough because the dye did not travel up and there were white spots. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_47191-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Yarn 1\" title=\"Rainbow Yarn 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_47191-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_47191-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_47191.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>So, I put kool aid in salsa bowls and added HOT water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4722_crop-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Yarn 2\" title=\"Rainbow Yarn 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4722_crop-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4722_crop-1024x317.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4722_crop.jpg 2042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>And then I was feeling better about things until I pulled it out to wind it and realized, WHAT THE DEVIL?!? Where did all this yellow come from?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4757-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Yarn 3\" title=\"Rainbow Yarn 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4757-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4757-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4757.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/> So, I took a note from the pros and broke the yarn and removed the extra yellow&#8230;as much as I hated to, it was the right call.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Yarn 4\" title=\"Rainbow Yarn 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>I will be quite a bit more relaxed about yarn breaks in future. I shall imagine that they tell a story about a dyer that was overcome with delicious kool-aid fumes and lost track of what they were doing.<br \/>\nPs. Happy Anniversary to my lovely parents!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the directions I used for self-striping yarn. I started with 50g of superwash bare wool sock yarn. I was pretty pleased with myself when I pulled this out of the microwave. I can follow directions like a good little yarnie&#8230;.until I realized that the yarn between the bags must not have been wet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}