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Dye Yarn with Kitchen Scraps

November 25, 2013 by Connie Barwick Leave a Comment

teadyeJanet M. Perry over at Nuts About Needlepoint is anticipating all the cooking this week and with cooking comes scraps. She’s gathered up some resources for ideas on how to use those scraps for experimenting with using them to dye some yarn. The chart shown here shows what results you might get when using tea to dye some types of yarn. What other scraps might you use. Janet also has some important tips for how to treat your implements in your kitchen when you are dyeing – be very careful how you handle that stuff! You don’t want to use the same stuff to dye and to prepare food. Learn more.

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