Happy Sunday!
I started last night’s dye session with the idea I wanted to try a cool gray, a warm gray, and a French gray. These are colors in my big collection of Prismacolor color pencils, with (if I remember correctly) 5 gradients in each range, from 20% to 100% saturation in each. I know that cool gray leans toward blues, warm gray leans toward reds, and French gray leans toward browns/neutrals.
Obviously I don’t have computerized color/dye matching or a huge manufacturing plant; I could not hope to create the correct proportions for those gradient saturations in each range. But I could try mixing my base gray with “just a smidge” of a primary blue, a primary red, or brown. Apparently what I considered a smidge turned out to be quite overpowering so I ended up with a slightly grayed blue, slightly grayed red, and slightly grayed brown. UGH! Not at all what I wanted. Next time (if I grant myself another attempt) I will have to increase the gray by a factor of three or four, and reduce the add-in colors to barely a hint or suggestion. However, Twinset #498-499 is almost the French gray I was hoping for, even though it is still more brown than I’d like.
Even with my disappointment in the grays, I think all of this week’s Twinsets came out pretty good overall. Twinset #496-497 in particular reminds me of a partly cloudy sky over a meadow in full riotous bloom. Similar meadow colors appear in #506-507 and #512-513. Twinset #502-503 is a straight gray fade.
All of these are on Phydlbitz Sock, and would normally be $27.50 on the Blog Reader Specials page, but for today and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday) you can claim any two or more, matching or not for $25.50 each skein.
To claim the ones you want just send me an email with your requests. I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below and then send you a PayPal invoice. Even if you don’t have a PayPal account, they can process your credit or debit cards, and they collect your shipping information to expedite the shipping process. Upon payment I will prepare and print your shipping label right away, so that when the yarns are fully dried and reskeined, I can ship without delay. I expect this week’s collection to be ready to ship on or about Thursday Friday of this week. (I forgot that Thursday will be a postal holiday.)
Available Yarns
Rack 1 – 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507
Rack 2 – 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519