Back to yarn: About that headscarf... yeah, the one I accidentally started during last Thursday's "Yarn on Thursday" bamboo-fest. Here it is last week, with George:
I was a bit distressed, after my glowing review last Thursday, to discover that, after about 1/3 of a scarf (I think, it might be less), the tips of my lovely bamboo needles have been dyed blue. This is distressing mostly because (a) this isn't the way I want to turn my hair blue and (b) these are the needles I use to knit up my TKGA class stuff. Needless (or needleless) to say, I was a mite miffed. Wendy Johnson thought Murphy's Oil Soap might remove the dye, so I'm going to try that once the headscarf is done. When I block it (yep, we're gonna find out if bamboo blocks at all!), There will be a light layer of toweling betwixt the scarf and my little makeshift blocking board - because that has to survive for more TKGA class stuff, as well.
There's the scarf as of Monday - and you can see the blue stain on the needles pretty clearly. *Sigh*
On the other hand, I'm totally loving the way the pattern is working out, and it will be available as soon as I get the Final Pretty Pictures up and running. (I'm flirting with the idea of a free Ravelry download. Just for cred. Thankfully, the pattern is easy enough that I'm pretty sure I can write it correctly right out of the gate.)
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re: blue dye
ReplyDeleteBlues and greens are the hardest dyes to wash clean, and it's possible that this yarn didn't set properly.
When you wash your scarf, add a glug of vinegar to the wash. You probably won't have a whole lot of luck getting the blue dye off of the needles, but it shouldn't transfer to any other yarn that you knit with.
-L
Trust me kids require more than 1 room. Sorry to hear the needles have taken on the color of the yarn. The scarf is lovely. I do the vinegar trick in any fabric that I think will run.denstr
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