Fiber Friday – Confession

I usually love dyeing.
(Note: that’s dyEing, not dying)
Most mornings I get up, have a cup of tea and then put on a pot of dye. I add fiber or yarn, let it simmer, turn it off, let it cool, rinse it and then hang it out to dry on the porch.

But then the cold, wet weather came.
And the porch wasn’t get the yarn dry fast enough.

And I wanted to get all the Organic Cotton dry for the Learn to Knit Kit.
So I turned to my trusty washing machine.
I’ve done this many times: Spin cycle for 2 minutes, take out the fiber, hang it out. It gets the drippy wetness out and it dries so much faster!

But…I stepped away.

And it got ugly. Agitation-cycle ugly.
Here’s the proof:
(avert your eyes, faint of heart!)

That’s 6 skeins of yarn, not just tangled, but tangled TOGETHER!

I can only write about it now because it’s all untangled and . . . → Read More: Fiber Friday – Confession

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