Step 4:
Divide the 4 oz. of roving into four roughly equal parts by folding in half,
then in half again.
Keep track of the four parts, so you can have about one-quarter of the roving
dyed with each color.
Step 5:
Wearing rubber gloves, push dry roving into each jar, using roughly one-quarter
of the fiber in each.
Squish each top part back and forth to get color on the parts that aren't in the
jars. Fill each jar
carefully with water to the top and push the roving down gently, so that
the color is mostly uniform in the whole jar.
Fill crock pot with tap water almost to the top.
Step 6:
Set control to LOW and leave alone for about 3 hours.
Then turn crock pot OFF and leave alone for at least another 3 hours.
Step 7:
When fiber is cool enough to handle without gloves, rinse it
carefully (no agitating!)
in water the same temperature. This is what the spacing of the colors looks
like:
We're now ready for the final step, which is the same for space dyeing and rainbow dyeing.
Finishing
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