Dyeing Soy Silk

Rainy and gray today, perfect for dyeing soy silk.
Photo 1. -Soy silk roving as purchased
Photo 2.-Dye in"squirt" bottles with pre-soaked roving
Instructions from Halcyon Yarn, which carries the dye.

















The painted roving







Wrapped in plastic wrap, on a folding vegetable steamer on top of the canning rack in my canner






The finished product, still wet







Finished product dry and fluffed a bit. I made the mistake of agressively squeezing this batch - A simple towel blotting will do prior to drying.






Another view. I paint probably too many colors, but I like the cross over variations that I get. I can also choose to spin various segments instead of the whole. Several variations of spun soy silk can be seen in my stash on ravelry or in my etsy store.





Spun single of the soy silk above









Same single plyed with pale green handspun.