My mom got me this sweater in green for Christmas.  It is my very favorite sweater.  Andy calls it my Mr Rogers sweater because nearly every day I come home from work and I change out of my work things and I put on my green sweater.  I love it so much I got on LLBean and I ordered another one.  The only problem was the only color they had in my size was geranium pink.  Andy convinced me to order it, but when I put it on he laughed at me.  It was so pink it glowed.  Not working for me.  So I dyed it and look at the lovely iris purple color it turned out.  The goddesses of dyes were with me.

I used iDye, which I have talked about before and I am a big fan.  It seems to work really well for all-over even color with fairly little effort.  This was 2 packets of navy and one of violet.  That was probably more dye than I really needed, but I wanted to make really sure that the pink was gone.  I followed the instructions for dyeing it in my washing machine.

I found matching buttons (in the right size and color!) and last night part of my mending was replacing the bright pink buttons with the matching ones.  Have saved the pink buttons because they are really cute.

If you look really closely there are a few threads of poly/lycra/spandex knitted in to the ribbing areas and a little bit of pink stitching.  The iDye only works on plant fibers, which those things are not.  The cool thing about these dyes is that I could have added a packet of navy iDye Poly to the same dye bath and it would have taken care of those fibers.  I didn’t think of it ahead of time and I decided that the tiny bit of pink was really just not enough to matter.  But maybe next time.