From Yarn Market News.  October, 2005

DYEING TO KNIT: How to Use— And Create Your Own—Beautiful Hand-Dyed Yams

By Elaine Eskesen Down East Books, $25.95.  ISBN:0892726679

    Along with felting and spinning, hand-dyeing yarn is surging as an adjunct interest of serious knitters. Author

Eskesen has plenty of experience in this art; She sells her own line of hand-dyed yarns at her shop. Pine Tree

Yarns, in Damariscotta, Maine, and on her Web site (www.pinetreeyarns.com). In her book, which is illustrated

with bright photographs, she shares what she knows, starting with the understanding of how colors relate to

one another. Equipment, preparation and drying fall under the heading of dyeing procedures, but things take

off with the various ways to dye fibers; space-dyeing, hand-painting, over-dyeing, squirting, the "Jackson Pollock

effect," sprinkling—each method seemingly more impressive than the last. Sections on designing with solid and

variegated yarns and her own time-tested patterns give Eskesen the last word, but she invites Prudence

Mapstone, Rick Mondragon, Pam Allen and three other designers to have their way with hand-dyes, to interesting

effect.