Been trying to reduce my stash. So after the white I introduced some colour: the two whites plus two light blues which were used for a cardigan and a C2C 1m square blanket. And two whites plus one green for another.
Then I thought of dying the yarn, all those white cones seem so boring. So I took the two whites and made a rather small skein for test purposes. I looked for youtube videos and as I did not want to buy materials I used food colouring to dye. According to the info I just dissolved it in some water with vinegar, poured it on the skein and heated it for 4 min in the microwave. And surprisingly I got a reasonable result. I had doubted that as I knew it was synthetic (did an ash test) but had no idea what kind. I used blue, purple and red in that order so the result was a surprise. It felt softer and thinner than before so I added one extra white and knitted a child-size hat. The patterning is always a surrpise with these sort of yarns as it depends not only on the colouring but also on the number of stitches. I think this one turned out lovely.
It took only 20 grams, feels extremely soft on the hands when knitting. I have 37 gr left.
I used a toilet roll and a huge orange to show it off.
In case you wonder if I am running out of white - see picture 4. They are considerably slimmer than they were, but ...
And then there are 5 cones left in my banana box, one of them contains 12.500 m and is still in its original wrapper. And then there is more than a dozen blues, browns, etc waiting ...
Oh, and I gave up using the knitting machine. It hates those combined threads.
I have about 10 cones of ecru 2/24 100% acrylic. I wonder if that would work. Time to go on YouTube and investigate. I love the way the food coloring took. It looks really good and would take away the monotony of knitting with the same color.
Knitting machine is still in storage. I like hand knitting a lot more while watching TV.
For yarn food colouring and Easter egg paint are both mentioned. But the latter is put in boiling water, which works for wool and cotton, but I doubt my synthetics would not like boiling.