I LOVE my crock pot. To me there is nothing better than throwing a bunch of things in first thing in the morning and having yummy dinner in the evening. Plus you get good smells all day. My crock pot makes me feel like I actually know how to cook. I think half my food pins on pinterest are crock pot recipes. Sometimes, actually most of the time, I wish I could cook everything in there. I am considering freezing a bunch of crock pot recipes like this, and I like to hit up this website for ideas as well.
So, I feel like jumping up and doing a jig since I just found this tutorial on how to dye yarn in your crock pot. Gah! How flipping exciting is that? It looks as easy as cooking in the crockpot, too! I am going to have to try my hand at this for sure! Hmm, my knit girls did what I am calling a "Crafternoon" this weekend, maybe I will have to see if they want to get together and dye some yarn together in the crock pot! Whataya think, girls?
Dontcha just love this idea?! I hope I will see some crock pot monsters on Ravelry!
Dyeing in a crock pot IS really that easy, and super fun, waiting to see how it will turn out. If you're using anything other than koolaid to dye with you should not use that crock pot for food any more though... I found one at a garage sale for $6 which I use for dye.
Posted by: Joanne | January 17, 2012 at 06:37 PM
I've done this before in the microwave and it came out pretty much the same, but i bet it would be more fun in the crock-pot. ^_^ red onion skins make a pretty yellowish tone without mordant so that might be an alternitive to KoolAid.
also be sure to pick flavors that you wont mind smelling for about three-ish days in your house/kitchen
i learned that really fast
happy dyeing
Posted by: Mireya | January 17, 2012 at 08:09 PM
I bought yarn from Light Brown Hare a little while ago. She has excellent videos on how to crockpot dye yarn.
Posted by: Charlotte | January 18, 2012 at 12:12 AM