Happy Saturday!
I thought we were cooling down into more autumn-like weather. Boy, was I fooled! It got up to the upper 90s and I got wiped out with the heat until late in the evening. But no matter — I got the dyeing done last night and got them all washed and rinsed this morning. 🙂
The afternoon started with a thought toward dyeing neutrals instead of the brighter colors I use more often. I wanted to start with gray and add small tinges of various colors. However, as they say, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” I started with the gray, but it quickly went to pot and I knew better than to fight where the colors insisted on going.
These were all dyed as Twinsets, and every Twinset has at least 3 colors applied, either in layers or splatters. Many of them remind me of shadows passing over. Twinsets #683-684 and 695-696 are both DumpDyes combining multiple colors except black. I still have nearly the full jar of black remaining. One of them is a combination of navy and purple with a little gray, the other is the final DumpDye at the end of the dye session, using all the remaining dyes.
Oddly, even holding out in the sunlight I cannot really tell which is the navy-purple-gray and which is the one with everything including those 3 plus all the other colors. The cool thing about these two DumpDye Twinsets is that if you need a rather ambiguous dark contrast to highlight other brighter colors, either of these should work well. For example, if you need contrasting heels and toes on your socks, or maybe you need a clear separator band on an otherwise bright stripe design, these would do just fine.
All of these are on Phydlbitz Sock (75/25 Superwash Corriedale/Nylon, 430 yards each) and are normally $27.50 each. For Saturday and Sunday, each matching Twinset will be invoiced at $50.00 (i.e., $25.00 each).
To claim the ones you want just send me an email with your requested numbered items. I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below and send you a PayPal invoice. If you are outside the U.S., please let me know so I can calculate your shipping charges correctly.
Available Yarns:
Rack 1 – 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 679, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684
Rack 2 – 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696
