The Dye Pot

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 :)

Posted by Robbyn on 07/27 at 10:16 AM