u/giddye42069

I'm doing color work socks and there's not that many places around me that sell sock yarn and and ones that do are sports weight instead of fingering weight but I found one brand that I like and it only has like 12 colors

so I was just planning on dying the white yarn to any color I need but I was wondering do I need to take it apart and use a Niddy Noddy or should I use one of those like hat knitting machines that I have to just knit one big tube and dye it like that

Or can I just dye it in the ball it already comes in I'm just worried if I do that it'd be hard to wash all the dying c out and make sure it's evenly spread

And I know you have to boil water to dye stuff but the yarn says to use cold water and low heat so any tips on that one also be good

I made the sock already I posted asking why It was too tight and people gave me advice so I took it apart and decided to remake it but I don't want to have to buy new white yarn when I already have some

My white yarn has four strands and the other colors have six strands it's a pizza sock color work so the white would be for the ribbing, toe and the heel

Originally I used a 2.5 mm for the whole thing even though the pattern called for me going down to a 2.25 for the ribbing toe and heel I just thought it would be too tight cuz the other yarn was thicker

My thought is is that if I do go down the yarn still is thinner so it might feel weird to feel the different thicknesses on my heel and on the bottom of my foot but if I double it up it might be too thick

I just like your advice to see if you guys have any tips and I posted about the pizza sock being tight around the heel if you want to take a look at my page to take a look to see what I'm talking about