A Tangle
G'day all! The other day I did some fibre-reactive dyeing. It is for cotton and other cellulose fibres like bamboo. I dyed up a t-shirt and decided to play with a ball of a new sock yarn, Kertzer On Your Toes . It is 75% bamboo, 25% nylon so the fibre-reactive dyes should work. The only problem with this sort of dyeing is that you are supposed to machine wash the item in hot water. Being a clueless noob to this, I chucked the rinsed yarn in a lingerie bag and threw it in. A ball, not a skein with many many ties. Well it came out looking like this: . A very pretty mess. I've found there are two types of people in the world when they see tangled yarn. Those who throw their hands to the sky and exclaim "Woe is me*, my yarn is a tangled mess and I must throw it out!" and Those who see a tangled skein and They MUST Untangle It! *Or words to that effect, probably words that involved a lot of cussing. I've taken tangled yarn into my LYS and practically been knocke...