Tea Rose for Two
Materials
Knitpicks Bare Peruvian Highland Wool, worsted weight. about 100 grams
PAAS dye tablets: 4.5 red, 1.5 purple
White vinegar
Water
Method
Crock pot
Colorfast?
Yes
Color name
Tea Rose for Two
Pretty much the standard procedure - soak the yarn in cool water, dissolve the dyes in vinegar, dye in crock pot, yarn into dye bath and crock pot set to
high.
This is exactly the same combination of dye in the same proportions as was used for
Tea Rose and the results are very similar. The slight differences can be chalked up to two things: The yarn is different (
Tea Rose was a merino fingering weight) and I had been hoping for a graduated color take-up which totally didn't happen :)
The swatch was done on size 7 US (4.0 mm ) needles.
Notes: I had wanted to go for a variegated yarn - one that went from deep rose, to medium pink, to pale pink. With this in mind, I put a third on the hank into the dye pot to take up what I hoped would be the greatest part of the dye. I left that for about half an hour before slipping another thirs of the hank into the bath. Another half hour and then I added the rest of the wool. This was clearly not
quite the way to go about it because there's very little variation in final product - though there is some. The yarn isn't a bad color(s) though and will be perfectly usable. So I'm going to have to rethink this variegated/graduated color thing and see if I can come up with a better way of managing it. Maybe a stove-top method would be a better way to go? I'll let you know :)
Colored by Robbyn on 07/27 at 10:16 AM
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Thunder Storm
Materials
Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud, lace weight. 50 grams, Iris color
PAAS dye tablets: 1/2 blue, 1/2 purple
White vinegar
Water
Method
Crock pot
Colorfast?
Yes
Color name
Thunder Storm
Pretty much the standard procedure - soak the yarn in cool water, dissolve the dyes in vinegar, dye in crock pot, yarn into dye bath and crock pot set to
high.
This was the result of a yarn I already had in a color that didn't do much for me. The original looked like this:
I had been looking at some other lace and fingering weight yarns in the blue to violet range and remembered that I had a fair amount of this Knitpicks yarn. The baby alpaca is just gorgeous, soft, silky yarn but the color didn't work with the others. So I decided to take one hank and gently over dye it - to see what happened. It already leaned in the right direction, it just needed a little more nudging :)
The swatch was done on size 5 US (3.75 mm ) needles.
I even indulged in some lace knitting for the swatch figuring that was probably how this yarn
should be shown. While I think it came out reasonably well, I'd be embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to manage it.
Notes: I have dyed this yarn before.
Second Hand Rose also started its life as part of the Alpaca Cloud line, color - Sunlight Heather. This yarn dyes beautifully and comes out of the process as silky and glossy as it was when it went in. This particular color, Thunder Cloud, is interesting and does go with the other yarns I had been looking at earlier - in fact it goes very well. But I wish it were a little brighter :)
Colored by Robbyn on 07/08 at 08:37 PM
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