I did some dyeing this week.
More information is available at The Dye Pot under Pigeon’s Blood. I’m so pleased with this color that I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
That will have to wait until the blanket is finished. At my current rate, that should happen on Sunday. The final rounds are being worked now and, as I acquire enough, they are being sewn into strips and the strips are being sewn together, I’m halfway down the length of the blanket, so things are coming together nicely :) Hopefully, I’ll have a finished item to show you on Monday.
I sorted through the half-way bin a couple of days ago. This is where projects go when I’m undecided about them - and there were a lot of things in the bin. So many, in fact, that Myria was getting nervous about them reaching critical mass and staging a coup on the rest of the living room :) Something had to be done.
I seldom use straight needles any more. It’s either circulars or double points with point protectors on the ends. Can you guess how many point protectors (not to mention DPNs) I re-acquired during this exercise? A bunch :) I also discovered a circular I thought I had lost and several balls of yarn (and partial balls) I had forgotten about.
As it happened, a bit of blue, left over from The Lake and the Summer Sky, got tossed onto the work basket where it landed up against the yellow I’m using for the top-down hat…
This doesn’t look bad to my eye - what do you think?
Sadly, I think the possible sweater…
...isn’t going to go anywhere. I should have started earlier in winter, while the cold weather was there to spur me on. Now that warmer weather is arriving, I have no desire to work on a sweater. I could put it away for a while and see how I feel later on. After all, the half-way bin needs filling out again, now that it’s been pared down :)
Don’t tell Myria I said that!
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Very pretty color!! I love it, such depth!! Vicki
I think the blue and yellow look very good together. Would you stripe them? Make a Fair Isle type design of the blue on the yellow?
Why is that color called pigeon blood red? Has anyone ever cut open a pigeon and seen what color the blood is? It’s a very pretty color and I’m interested in how you use it.
Vicki - That depth is the advantage of having started with a yarn that already had some color of its own. Using the food-safe dyes that I use, I couldn’t have gotten that kind of shade starting with a natural yarn - one that hadn’t been dyed.
I love just looking at it!
Charlotte - I think I would be tempted to do some kind of fair isle type of design. Stripes would work, of course, but I’m not much into stripes :)
No, I don’t know what pigeon’s blood looks like either :) However, at one time, a ruby of good color was said to be the color of pigeon’s blood. That’s what I was thinking about when I named it.
I finally took a dyeing class this weekend. Now I know why you love it so much! ;)
Lisa - You’re sunk now :) It’s addictive and you may think you can ignore it but it will sneak up on you when you least expect it. Fortunately, it’s also tremendous fun!
