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		<title>A couple recent dye projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cyclefibers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1549133&amp;post=5&amp;subd=cyclefibers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
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<p>This one came out much bluer than the other skein.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>With some of the lighter skein (which I forgot to take pictures of before using) I knit up a simple mobius scarf.</p>
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<p>It looks very blue in the photos, but looks much greener in person.  The base color is a light sea foam green, and there&#8217;s lots of teal through out.</p>
<p>I had some nice green and pink 50/50 angora/wool that I&#8217;d dyed up this weekend, but when I got back from Seattle i found that my brothers dog had found it in it&#8217;s plastic bag, ripped it open, and dragged the yarn around the house and yard. *sigh*</p>
<p>The good news was she didn&#8217;t get the blue faced leicester I&#8217;d also dyed.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1307/1333464122_6559d47f7d.jpg" alt="Sunset BFL" align="middle" height="293" width="500" /></p>
<p>I wanted something that would capture the feeling of the sunsets that we saw while driving over the pass between Montana and Idaho.  I&#8217;ll probably do a few more with this idea in mind, since I&#8217;d also love to attempt the complex blues and purples that were also visible.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s only 72 yards so it being a little off is not too big of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cyclefibers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1549133&amp;post=3&amp;subd=cyclefibers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I finished off the cone of superwash merino last night.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s only 72 yards so it being a little off is not too big of a deal.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the stuff I did a while ago but never took pictures of.</p>
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<p> I like the nice bright colors on this one.  It&#8217;s probably something I&#8217;ll repeat.</p>
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<p>For having so much purple I really like this colorway.  I think when I do something similar to this I&#8217;ll be looking to get the main purple closer to the color that happened where the purple and burgundy meet.</p>
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<p>I don&#8217;t know if I like this one at all.  I was playing with some leftover stock and wasn&#8217;t sure what color I&#8217;d end up with for the orangey/brown section and it&#8217;s just meh.  Plus the color across the board looks kinda washed out and faded.  Not so pretty.</p>
<p>Last is some recycled wool that started out cream with brown.</p>
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<p>I think this turned out pretty nice.  There&#8217;s some darker patches that you can&#8217;t really see, I think they should look fine knit up.</p>
<p>Now I just need to get some more un-dyed yarn to work with.  I have so many color plans it&#8217;s kinda ridiculous.</p>
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