yeah baby...
The little purple skein begat 14 more purple skeins.
Taking it to the Dye Pot this Sunday, Rachel and I jumped in feet first and just held our breath. Two hours later, we had:
Glorious Purple Yarn!
The bright sunshine of high noon illuminates the skeins - they are rinsed and ready for washing here. The color looks a little different because of the high contrast light source and the fact they are WET! It was a very close replication of the sample skein -
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- total weight: 25.3 oz
- 5 gallons water
- 3.5 C salt
- 1T each, Rasberry & Marine Blue & 2T Lilac - Procion MX dye by Jacquard
- 1/2 C Soda Ash
- lots of heart (thanks Rachel for all your patience!)
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What I learned:
- skein management is really important - limit length to ~26"
- be sure to secure initial end when making skein
- tie in Figure 8's in at least 4 places (see Fig. 12.)
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Overall, the process went smoothly and quickly. The only downside was the tendency of the wet cotton to want to knot itself on other strands. Think wet shoelaces - we spent a little extra time untangling some scary looking snags at the very end. I had to take a deep breath and listen to some Jimi Hendrix (Voodo Child) before continuing...
A little judicsious teasing, shaking and rinsing, made everything smooth out and become quite lovely...
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