Troubles
It's hooooottt. High 80s and pounding sun and yet I'm outside taking pictures (see harsh shadow in photo for proof). And winding yarn.
First, the sad news. After a preliminary stitch of my scoop du jour sleeves, I've decided the sweater is a lost cause and frogged it all. I just don't like Cascade 220 that much. I really didn't like it in such a bulky sweater. All is not lost, though - I'm thinking of overdyeing the yarn and using it to make a bag. Of some sort. (Not sure it will take 6 hanks though.) Maybe a felted rug with some funky whipstitching. Or maybe I'll trade it away.
Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon dyeing yarn and making spaghetti - multitasking. I had some pretty good luck. I made one skein of reds with a bit of black thrown in (it turned the red purple, but oh well). The silver looks pink. The whole thing is dried and reskeined and going into a bath of solid red today, just for kicks.
The other skein is supposed to be chartreuse, red and purple, but the chartreuse came out a funky, awful, retina-burning neon green. There are no words to describe the awfulness of this color. My camera even paled at the thought of trying to reproduce it. So although I really like the color distribution in this skein, it's going into a bath of gold - weak gold, or maybe lemonade kool-aid - to tone down the everloving green.
I mean, this green is craptacular. It defies explanation.
So I'm off to start dyeing yarn again!
First, the sad news. After a preliminary stitch of my scoop du jour sleeves, I've decided the sweater is a lost cause and frogged it all. I just don't like Cascade 220 that much. I really didn't like it in such a bulky sweater. All is not lost, though - I'm thinking of overdyeing the yarn and using it to make a bag. Of some sort. (Not sure it will take 6 hanks though.) Maybe a felted rug with some funky whipstitching. Or maybe I'll trade it away.
Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon dyeing yarn and making spaghetti - multitasking. I had some pretty good luck. I made one skein of reds with a bit of black thrown in (it turned the red purple, but oh well). The silver looks pink. The whole thing is dried and reskeined and going into a bath of solid red today, just for kicks.
The other skein is supposed to be chartreuse, red and purple, but the chartreuse came out a funky, awful, retina-burning neon green. There are no words to describe the awfulness of this color. My camera even paled at the thought of trying to reproduce it. So although I really like the color distribution in this skein, it's going into a bath of gold - weak gold, or maybe lemonade kool-aid - to tone down the everloving green.
I mean, this green is craptacular. It defies explanation.
So I'm off to start dyeing yarn again!
posted by Jen at 12:21 PM
5 Comments:
I like them both!! My dyeing is going bad today, tried to do to many colors at once, I have 1 more skein and that is it! UGH!
They both look nice, but I can imagine how the green could be a whole lot worse in real life. At least you can dye over it!
Good thing you didn't mix up the yarn dyeing and spaghetti!
What yarn are you using?
I like the chartreuse and raspberry... must be the inner four year old in me coming out...
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