After soaking in the heated indigo leaf dye vat for about one half hour, I gently lift the skeins out, one at a time. The water is about 120 degrees so it's hot, but so is a hot tub :) Squeezing the skeins out throughly is important due to one major factor, the dye in the wool needs to be oxidized by air. When this happens, as if by MAGIC, the greenish color turns a glorious wonderful blue!
Yarn being aired and turning blue
Wool Skeins on blocker
The next step is to wind the yarn skeins onto a "blocker". This straightens the yarn and allows it to dry evenly.
Finally, the finished product! I wind off the yarn onto a niddy noddy which forms the yarn into a 2 yd. hank (skein of yarn). It is good to know how many yards there are in an ounce of yarn. This total is called the "yarn weight" and helps the knitter, etc. figured out how many skeins are needed for a project.
Yarn on a niddy noddy, yarn skein after
removal
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