Sounds yummy doesn’t it? Cake Dyeing…. Unfortunately no yummy cakes were baked, dyed or consumed for this project.
Cake dyeing is taking a skein of yarn and winding it into a “cake” with a ball winder and then dyeing it. The word “cake” came about due to the resemblance of the wound yarn to a stacked layer cake. This creates a centre-pull “ball” of yarn to knit from.
Ok, enough of word origins, on to the experiment! I found 3 balls of sad looking yarn in the “free bin” in our condo craft room. 2 were an ugly golden-yellow colour, … Read more...