kool aid, wool and knitting

After having problems with my daughter in her real nappies. After a while we found she was having problems with pocket nappies. Shame had so many lovely nappies from weenotions, blueberry minky’s and so much more. I heard good things about wool nappy covers and wanted to give it a try and started off with these pink soakers Though they did not last long as they were the wrong size for Emily but we noticed a huge improvement of Emily’s legs. I think bought some wool for Emily’s grandma to knit up some wool nappy cover. I also put in for custom orders with different wool knitters. Here are some of the wool nappy covers I have for Emily.

This first one is from The Soaring sheep and is so lovely I really need more slots with this lovely lady

You can find more of her work at http://www.thesoaringsheep.co.uk/

This next item is wool shorties from Bdazzlers

Her work can be found at http://www.bdazzlers.co.uk/

Here we have a collection of Emily’s wool, from The Soaring Sheep, and KnitterArty.

After a a bit of thinking I wanted to try dye some wool for some longies, I did a biy of asking around and researching.
I then went and bought 1 skein of BFL undyed wool and 3 packets of kool aid. Well to be honest it did not go as planned. I tired to sort the wool but only for my step daughter to HELP!!!! or not. Later on I spent a good 4 to 5 hours trying to sort it out so I could dye it up. The next day I got out my instructions I got with my wool and kool aid. I soaked the wool and sorted the kool aid. Here is a few pictures of the start of my first project
The wool in for it’s soak

Then dried out and put in the bath on cling film.

I then tried to dye the wool multi-coloured

After about 30 minutes of being in the dye I wrapped it up and put it a pan of water, this is where it went wrong, I cooking it for around 30 minutes to fix the dye.
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After I cooked it I let it cool before raisning under cold water. Then left it to dry.

After my first rubbish go a dyeing wool I had another go with much better results.

And this is it knitted up

Now I have done a little dyeing I have moved onto knitting it. I watch and watch videos on google and youtube I did a little practice and again I kept mucking up. Then I thought I would make a scarf for Emily. I started off so well then ending poor and running out of wool. Here is the finished scarf

I have now moved on to knitting a blanket. I am going to be knitting 30 stitches to 30 rows squares I think I will do 4 squares along and about 12 up I think. I am knitting in aran weight wool in either merino wool or/and BFL.

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