Lessons learned:

[fallingbooks]

1.) I need to rinse out the things I dye a little better. My hands smell like cotton candy koolaid death.

2.) Spinning evenly from silk hankies is going to require mucho practice.

::eyes the mess on the wheel::

I finally managed to get my hands on some pint mason jars locally today (True Value FTW!), so I can start blending down the Wilton's pastes and start messing with them. I gather there are some issues with the red absorption in those (and the red is in several of the manufactured colors) so if you don't manage it just so the blended color will break down into it's components leaving you with an interesting spectrum represented in your yarn. Which may be fine, depending on what you want.

I plan to use these dyes until they're gone, but I have a feeling that once summer comes and I can start doing some of this work outside (and I can just see me running extension cords out my bedroom window so I can run a crockpot and microwave out on my apartment's tiny patio) I'll probably start moving over to proper textile-intended acid dyes. Getting my hands on blue and green koolaid has been a royal pain so far, and with regard to finicky red dyes, well, I'm not exactly known for my patience.

Anyway! That's going to have to wait until next week, because I'm going to try to make some progress on my wips this weekend, although at the rate I'm going, I'm now making sweaters for next fall. Yeesh.

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A range of Leuco dye thermochromic inks can be oeanitbd which can react and give a colour change at a range of temperatures from below room temperature to well above it so you should be able to obtain one which reacts at a low enough temperature to give a good indication of the internal temperature of your pizza box even through the cardboard. Details of thermochromic materials both leuco dye and liquid crystal materials can be found on the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network smart materials guide. This includes a list of UK suppliers.Best of luck with your projectJackie Butterfield, Network Manager, Materials Knowledge Transfer NetworkReferences :