Dying Day
I have, or rather had, 10 skeins (1100 yards) of Alpaca yarn hand dyed in Chile which I got for a very good price. The yarn was rendered in shades of green, which is usually pleasing to me. However, this particular yarn tended to camouflage-ish tones, which I do not find to be pleasing. I also had 33o yards of hand spun superwash merino which was perfect in every way, except color. That yarn was reminiscent of a drunken leprechaun festival.
Those yarns went into a soapy bath in preparation for re-birth in some new, and hopefully improved, shade.
You can see that I was not exaggerating about their initial colors.
Soooooo, what does one do with an overabundance of yellow and yellow-ish green? Methinks one overdyes with an abundance of blueish tones. So, in the spirit of overdoing, I mixed up an extreme concentration of bright blue and set it to steep with the yarn. After using half an ocean to rinse the excess color . . .
Those yarns went into a soapy bath in preparation for re-birth in some new, and hopefully improved, shade.
You can see that I was not exaggerating about their initial colors.
Soooooo, what does one do with an overabundance of yellow and yellow-ish green? Methinks one overdyes with an abundance of blueish tones. So, in the spirit of overdoing, I mixed up an extreme concentration of bright blue and set it to steep with the yarn. After using half an ocean to rinse the excess color . . .
VOILA!
pretty much what I expected
pretty much what I expected
I can live with these colors. The alpaca is still patchy, but I think it will knit up (or weave) nicely and will not look like camo. And now I can at least bide in the same room with the leprechaun hangover yarn.
1 comment:
I like the leprechaun hangover yarn and will be interested to see how the camo works up
Minimiss
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