It's Good to be Green
I had some leftover dyestock mixed up, which happened to be green. So I plotted using it up.
It was teal green, and I was dyeing rug yarn, and teal just did not seem to be needed. So I kept adding yellow, in varying amounts, not measured (known in some circles as *dump dyeing*) and here are the resulting skeins:
At the end, I did an exhaust bath on a light grey skein, at the far right.
Then, after much green, I decided to go for browns, by adding scarlet and yellow, for the dye run here:
The exhaust skein is the pale peach, this time over white yarn.
I did a couple of plain scarlet and yellow, thinking they'd make nice spots of bright color:
I already have some blue yarns, and some golds and reds, and some will be left white and light grey. All of these are intended for knotting, in a current bag project (pictures later this week) and for hats. Multiple hats. I'm stocking up (ha ha. Actually knotted hats, like this post).
Dyeing. Too much fun.
It was teal green, and I was dyeing rug yarn, and teal just did not seem to be needed. So I kept adding yellow, in varying amounts, not measured (known in some circles as *dump dyeing*) and here are the resulting skeins:
At the end, I did an exhaust bath on a light grey skein, at the far right.
Then, after much green, I decided to go for browns, by adding scarlet and yellow, for the dye run here:
The exhaust skein is the pale peach, this time over white yarn.
I did a couple of plain scarlet and yellow, thinking they'd make nice spots of bright color:
I already have some blue yarns, and some golds and reds, and some will be left white and light grey. All of these are intended for knotting, in a current bag project (pictures later this week) and for hats. Multiple hats. I'm stocking up (ha ha. Actually knotted hats, like this post).
Dyeing. Too much fun.
posted by Sara at 7:04 AM
4 Comments:
I love the browns and the peach, but especially the peach skein! :)
I am terribly biased against teal. The law firm at which I worked/was imprisoned for a number of years had teal carpet and paint everywhere. Oh the memories.
I love all the possibilities with dyeing and the nedless varieties. You have some beautiful rich colors there.
I especially love the greens.
What lovely rich colors. I've always wanted to use natural dyes. I lived close to a place in India where they used natural dyes to dye yarn meant for handlooms. This is fascinating!
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