Self-striping (Streets and YOs) Here's how to make your own self-striping sock yarn with Kool-aid dye. At least, this is how I did it. 1. The key to self-striping yarn is a reallllly long hank. The stripes happen when there are long stretches of different colors. (This was taken after the dyeing. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Here's the final result. References: An excellent entry over at ginabeanaShetha's recent spice dyeing entryKnitty's article on Kool-aid dyeingA great Kool-aid dyeing color chart. Techniques: Self-striping yarn. As a novitiate in the Order of Kool-Aid Dyeing, I've been having a lot of fun making self-striping yarn. My method (which, I should warn you, is fraught with shortcuts and awkward work-arounds) follows. I can't stress enough that I'm new at this - all this is old-hat to many of you, I'm sure, but I thought it would be interesting to document it.
Step 1 Pick a yarn. All my dyeing thus far has been superwash wool (Dale Baby Ull, to be precise), which takes dye thirstily. I'm told that Merino, like Knitpicks Color Your Own works very well, too, but any animal fiber should be fun to experiment with. This sloppy, low-maintenance girl just can't bear the thought of handwash-only socks, is all. Step 2 Once you've got a yarn, you need to determine how much yarn will go into each row of your piece.
Cast on, mark the starting point of your working yarn (don't include the caston row) with permanent marker, and knit a few rows. Fold the frogged length into the number of rows you knit, and measure: Stitchionary. Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off. Goes to local yarn shops and Home Depot. Cabling without a cable needle ©2007-2009 www.grumperina.com. Information and images contained within this tutorial are copyrighted and cannot be used for any unintended purposes without my explicit permission. My general rules about tutorial usage and distribution can be found here. First, what makes this tutorial different from the numerous cabling without a cable needle tutorials available on the web? Cables become that much more exciting if you don't have to use a cable needle or a double-pointed needle to help you along. I first read about making cables without the aid of an additional needle in Annie Modesitt's Confessions of a Knitting Heretic .
Let's cable! Right-twist cable (same as holding sts in back) Left-twist cable (same as holding sts in front)