A couple recent dye projects

I got my hands on some great alpaca recycled from a sweater in a recent barter arrangement. It was plain cream and is now much more interesteing.

This one came out much bluer than the other skein.

It was a bit of a happy accident, since the original color I was shooting for was a pale green. I got that on the other skein, but in this batch some of my blue dye wasn’t fully dissolved. This led to a few very dark blue patches on the yarn. Unplanned, but it looked very cool. I ended up over-dyeing portions of it by hand painting in order to get the color variation even spread through out the yarn. What resulted is a highly variegated blue and green that reminds me of the ocean.

With some of the lighter skein (which I forgot to take pictures of before using) I knit up a simple mobius scarf.

It looks very blue in the photos, but looks much greener in person. The base color is a light sea foam green, and there’s lots of teal through out.

I had some nice green and pink 50/50 angora/wool that I’d dyed up this weekend, but when I got back from Seattle i found that my brothers dog had found it in it’s plastic bag, ripped it open, and dragged the yarn around the house and yard. *sigh*

The good news was she didn’t get the blue faced leicester I’d also dyed.

I wanted something that would capture the feeling of the sunsets that we saw while driving over the pass between Montana and Idaho. I’ll probably do a few more with this idea in mind, since I’d also love to attempt the complex blues and purples that were also visible.

Recent projects

I finished off the cone of superwash merino last night.

When it was in the pots I was pretty sure I was going to hate it because it was darker than I wanted, but it turned out okay. And besides it’s only 72 yards so it being a little off is not too big of a deal.

I still wish the pink was a little lighter, but I know what happened so I can correct it the next time I do this colorway.

Then there’s the stuff I did a while ago but never took pictures of.

I like the nice bright colors on this one. It’s probably something I’ll repeat.

For having so much purple I really like this colorway. I think when I do something similar to this I’ll be looking to get the main purple closer to the color that happened where the purple and burgundy meet.

I don’t know if I like this one at all. I was playing with some leftover stock and wasn’t sure what color I’d end up with for the orangey/brown section and it’s just meh. Plus the color across the board looks kinda washed out and faded. Not so pretty.

Last is some recycled wool that started out cream with brown.

I think this turned out pretty nice. There’s some darker patches that you can’t really see, I think they should look fine knit up.

Now I just need to get some more un-dyed yarn to work with. I have so many color plans it’s kinda ridiculous.