[crafty] seeing in color!

[snugglekitty]

I recently started the intial bag from Stitch and Bitch Nation. I was having a world of trouble with the color switching, until I realized I needed bobbins, and starkeymonster showed me how to twist the yarn together while changing colors to keep the tension somewhat even. That is really helping.

Furthermore, I got a cream-colored wool sweater for dying purposes.

My brilliant plan is to dye the sweater while it's still sweater-y, and then frog it. I was very much inspired by this website: http://saralamb.blogspot.com/2005/02/more-dyeing-fun.html
but deterred by the idea of knitting up hundreds of yards of yarn by hand just to dye it. If I can dye the sweater, then that could save me a very laborious step. Somebody in the crochet community suggested using Easter Egg dye, which is probably on sale today. I may go and grab some and just see what happens. The sweater was only two fifty, so I'm not too scared.

I had thought actually of using a technique similar to what is sometimes done with easter eggs - vat-dying the whole sweater one light color (probably pink or lavender or something in between) and then painting darker dyes (red, purple, blue) on it in some places. That way I could be sure that the whole sweater got dyed, without having to unravel it. Any comments?



Also, someone posted a finished picture in the crochet community, which is giving me big ideas.

This is the finished object: http://www.livejournal.com/community/crochet/2126630.html#cutid1
And this is the graph she made it from: http://www.delishsale.com/picss/catinwindow.jpeg

This got me thinking. Using this, I could take ANY simple picture, photoshop a graph over it, and use it as a pattern to do a picture. Seriously. I feel very excited considering this possibility. I would do it with crochet, not knitting, because it's a lot easier to change colors with crochet.



Whee, color!

Comments

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Using this, I could take ANY simple picture, photoshop a graph over it, and use it as a pattern to do a picture.

If you work with beads on a loom, there are actually computer programs that will do this for you so you can make a bead tapestry of any picture. Verry nifty stuff.

Oh, and as for who I am, ask mangosteen or bbsg.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

I meant bbbsg

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I imagine that if the software works for beads on a tapestry, it would work for yarn too. Same basic deal. X number of beads, or stitches...

I talked to bbbsg, who confirms that you're not my psycho ex. (This person has contacted me with multiple faked identities, so I'm very leery of strangers on the internet who seem to take an interest in me.) Thanks for the reference.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Sorry, didn't mean to cause undue stress. Next time I see you at Diesel or I actually make it to a knitcetera (I was at Kaz's birthday gig), I'll make a point of saying hi.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

That's okay. No way you could have known. That's why it says in my profile that I like people to say who they are the first time they make a comment...