Breaking Wilton’s Violet Food Coloring on Handpainted Roving

I am a little giddy in the filming on this video because the day of filming a spinning wheel arrived on my doorstep! This dyeing video where I did a lot of flying by the seat of my pants ended up being a beautiful example of how the different colors that make up Wilton’s Violet Food Coloring Break (separate) to give you a multicolored yarn. The 100% Wool Roving - (KnitPicks Affiliate Link) Visit for free patterns and more knitting & yarn dyeing tutorials. Video Contents 0:00 Excitement over the new Spinning Wheel 0:54 Mixing the Dyes 4:02 Mixing some dyes that I end up not using in the project 5:27 Giddly painting the roving with Wilton’s Violet Food Coloring 10:06 Wrapping up the roving in seran wrap to head in the microwave 10:34 In the microwave 11:23 Unwrapping the roving (and lots of excitement over the color) 12:50 Washing the Roving 13:25 Hung up to dry 14:54 The Dried and braided Rovi