adventures in striping

Thanks to a break in work - I had work, but we were not allowed to work, waiting for possible changes to the rules that never actually changed. Yeah, thanks boss for costing me a whole day of work. :-/ This waste left me with free time on my hands yesterday and this morning so I pulled out a skein of winter white Patons wool and got to work with a plan to make some self-striping yarn. =)

What I stated with:


I pulled out my swift and started wrapping:

I used roughly a 10-yd repeat for this one for thicker stripes. I'm thinking of making a cowl with this.

Getting the colors together:

teal - 4 pkg berry blue, 1 pkg lemon lime and about 1/2 pkg grape


brown - 2 pkg lemonade, 1 pkg orange, 1 pkg grape and I added about 1/4 tsp brown Wilton's icing paste to darken the brown

After about an hr in plain water, the divided skein went into the color and into the microwave:


Nearly clear water took 4 2-minute stints in the microwave:


Success!


After I had the skein rinsed and hung to dry, I still had time on my hands... and more yarn! So I set up for a 3-stripe skein:

Really glad I got this type of swift - no need to build a separate board to do this! =)

I went more basic with the colors on this one:


Super simple!


And very spring-y!

This one was about a 6-yd repeat. I'm thinking socks. =)

Next, I'll have to do a gradient...