The Tipsy Thimble

I know I just put the post up about the GAP sweater… but this thing is turning out so cool that I have to post about it again! (If you haven’t read about it yet, check out the post one previous to this one… below.)

So, I posted pics of what the first batch of Kool-Aid dyeing looked like… I loved it! But, I went back to it (I had 6 huge balls of yarn to play with…) and colored some more. I am done with it, and I think it turned out spectacular, if I do say so myself!

Here’s a recap of what the last batch looked like:

And here’s the second set:

All of it looks so awesome! And after (almost) boiling it for the dyeing, all of the kinks came out and it puffed back up. I had thought that it was a sock weight yarn, but now I see that it was probably due to the tension of being knitted up that it looked so thin. It’s definitely a little bit bigger now that it’s all refreshed… Probably almost a DK/sport weight. And SO soft!!!

I ended up with a LOT of beautiful yarn from this sweater:

I think these will be put on my Etsy shop once I take them to my mother’s house to weigh them on the postal scale. That is, if I can bring myself to part with them! They really are SO wonderful to look at and pet…

I need to find more sweaters like this one… too bad the stupid contents tag was removed from this one!!! It’ll be trial and error to find another one like this! (I’ll write another post later about an “error” I’ve already found on my journey to find sweaters to recycle into gorgeous yarn!)

Tags: GAP sweater, Kool-Aid dyeing, recycling, Yarn