Four bucks!
My homemade niddy-noddy, thanks to a super tutorial (go to this link and click on the "how to" link in the sidebar) and some clever flirting. Here's how I made my GIANT one...
1 60" length of 1/2" PVC pipe
2 T joins with threads, 1/2"
2 single threaded pieces (to join to the pipes, they are smooth on one end, threaded on the other, in the picture it's right under the T join), 1/2"
4 caps (threadless) for the ends, 1/2"
Flirt a little and have the guy cut you 1 18" and 4 6" lengths of pipe (I got one 36", but it's too loooong).
Put a single threaded piece on each end and screw in the T join. Put one 6" piece into each side of the T and a cap on each end. Do this on both sides.
No need to glue! It works GREAT. I can wind 2-yard skeins by just looping it around once, or 4-yard skeins by using it as a proper niddy-noddy.
I Kool-Aid dyed some yarn tonight - I used lemon-lime, starfruit, watermelon cherry and ice blue somethingberry, each with a sprinkle of black cherry. I just painted all over the yarn - one skein of Paton's Classic Wool in natural wound into a two-yard hank. I've been toying with the idea of making the skein a larger size so that the color repeats seem a bit more random - this was a test, with absolutely no rhyme or reason to how I poured the dye on it.
I got the mother lode of Kool-Aid tonight at Kroger. I am usually a Publix chick, but they had eight million kinds of Kool-Aid. I spent a whopping $3.46:
Speaking of dyeing, check out Kirsten's pretty yarn (it reminds me of a Van Gogh painting of irises, I think). And I got my match for the dye swap, so that probably means my match has me.
So hello, dye swapping coolio! I'm glad you're here!
(Oh, and PS, I finished my second sock - wonder if Strange Little Mama is done with hers yet...)
1 60" length of 1/2" PVC pipe
2 T joins with threads, 1/2"
2 single threaded pieces (to join to the pipes, they are smooth on one end, threaded on the other, in the picture it's right under the T join), 1/2"
4 caps (threadless) for the ends, 1/2"
Flirt a little and have the guy cut you 1 18" and 4 6" lengths of pipe (I got one 36", but it's too loooong).
Put a single threaded piece on each end and screw in the T join. Put one 6" piece into each side of the T and a cap on each end. Do this on both sides.
No need to glue! It works GREAT. I can wind 2-yard skeins by just looping it around once, or 4-yard skeins by using it as a proper niddy-noddy.
I Kool-Aid dyed some yarn tonight - I used lemon-lime, starfruit, watermelon cherry and ice blue somethingberry, each with a sprinkle of black cherry. I just painted all over the yarn - one skein of Paton's Classic Wool in natural wound into a two-yard hank. I've been toying with the idea of making the skein a larger size so that the color repeats seem a bit more random - this was a test, with absolutely no rhyme or reason to how I poured the dye on it.
I got the mother lode of Kool-Aid tonight at Kroger. I am usually a Publix chick, but they had eight million kinds of Kool-Aid. I spent a whopping $3.46:
Speaking of dyeing, check out Kirsten's pretty yarn (it reminds me of a Van Gogh painting of irises, I think). And I got my match for the dye swap, so that probably means my match has me.
So hello, dye swapping coolio! I'm glad you're here!
(Oh, and PS, I finished my second sock - wonder if Strange Little Mama is done with hers yet...)
posted by Jen at 9:43 PM
8 Comments:
Jen,
It looks professional! We have mango Koolaid here in DE - it's a bright yellow-orange colour.
Jo
Your Dye-o-rama pal checking in on your fabulous blog. Can't wait to make you great handpainted sock yarn!
Yay!!!! Hi Pal!!!
Wow, your homemade niddy noddy is so much spiffier than mine. Hmm. I think I need some caps for the ends...
Hi Pal! If you've read the latest update on the Dye-o-rama blog, we haven't received the Favorite Colors listing. I would love it if you could write what your favorite colors are, or if you can show me what you favorite colors are; maybe a piece of patterned fabric or favorite book cover. Be creative, be boring, but let me know . . . soon! Thanks.
Great kool aid haul :)
I read that all the colors got lost, Pallie! Terrible, but I have no idea what I actually said. I'll try again.
My favorite colors are ... light pink/rose; variegated golds/yellows; variegated spring greens; tiffany or robin's egg blue; the dark pinks in the antigone yarn above; chocolate brown; apple green. I am not keen on navy, blue-reds or purples (though lavender is probably ok).
Generally I seem to like color combinations where a warm, bright color is combined with browns or tans. I tend to like muted colors that are on the lighter side as opposed to primaries, and I also very much love variegated monochromatics (but I have no idea how to dye yarn to do that, so it's not like I'm expecting you to, just chatting).
If you need a GMail invite so you have an anonymous email...click Kirsten's Gluten-Free Knitting blog in the link and leave her a comment - she'll hook you up. :)
I'm so excited!
Thanks! Will get to work. I will look into the gmail too!
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