Showing posts with label venture brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label venture brothers. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

Release the Butterflies!!

...The Monarch


For awhile now I've been wanting to dye yarn based around the colors of The Venture Brothers character The Monarch. I finally got to it this weekend.

I used Wiltons icing colors and used the jar method. I dissolved the food coloring, water and vinegar in a jar and stuffed the yarn in and heated it in the microwave.

The best tool for dyeing based on a photo is a color extractor. I used ColorSuckr. It extracts the 12 most used colors in the photo. For my yarn, I used 6 dyes. 3 different purples, golden yellow, orange and brown.

I plan on knitting it along with black yarn to finish off that perfect Monarch look!

Name: Monarch
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool, natural
Weight: Worsted
Yardage: 223 yards