I set up my Weck electric canner last week for the first time – in my case it is a Weck electric “dyepot”. This thing is wonderful. It is heavy gauge stainless steel, has temperature control and a drain spigot:
The project at hand was to overdye a woven shawl and a handknit shawl. Both were originally made using a colorway in the New Zealand handpainted yarns I get from Fiber Trends, in a colorway not too many people besides me seem to like. The company has changed dyers now, anyway, and I am not sure this color will be available anymore. So anyway, I overdyed the two pieces, which were a yellow-green-grey-taupe mix, with about 60% blue and 40% violet at a DOS i.e. depth-of-shade of 0.75. I was aiming not to completely obscure the color changes in the original yarn, but transform it to a blue green overall color.
The domino wrap, before and after:
The woven shawl, before and after:
On the knitted wrap, I really like the way the mohair boucle and brushed mohair domino squares took up the dye a little differently from the plain wool squares. It’s just a lot more interesting looking, besides being a better color.
As long as I am tooting my own horn, let me add that the knitted wrap is my own pattern which I call the Fats Domino Wrap. I have been selling it with the yarns, which I get wholesale from Fiber Trends, as a knitting kit, mainly up at the Ashford Gallery in Winthrop, WA. Fiber Trends is also promoting it as the Fats Domino Wrap/Shawl Kit with Pattern. Fiber Trends is wholesale only, but you can order it through this link and it will be fulfilled by one of their participating retailers – the one nearest to you, I believe. Fiber Trends provides a wide range of knitting and felting patterns under their own label, plus the full range of Naturally yarns from New Zealand, including the handpainted yarns I have used in the kit.
Twisp of Fate 
Hello,
I love the wraps, they look so cozy! I came across your blog post originally because I’m searching for the Weck canners. I’m having such a hard time finding one. Could you tell me where you bought yours and have you had any leakage issues with the spigot?
Thanks,
Greta
Hi Greta – I bought mine from weckcanning.com, which is the link in the original post you replied to. I don’t think you can get them any other way but I could be wrong. I had to wait almost a year to get it and they don’t take pre-orders… but at the time that was because they had had trouble with the drain spigots, and were waiting for the new improved versions to be manufactured in Germany (I think). I haven’t had any trouble with the spigot but then again I haven’t used it too many times yet.
I don’t think they have such a big backorder situation any more, but you just need to get the phone number off the website and then call them and see what they say. Good luck!