Good morning, and Happy Saturday!

Last post I showed a box of new-to-me dyes that a fellow dyer shared with me.  These dyes are from a company I had never heard of in all my years of dyeing.  So I had no choice but to try them out, right?

Most of the ones I tried came out full and rich, but a few of them left little splotches here and there. (i know how to minimize this in the future — it has to do with how I prepared the dye solutions.) Fortunately, the little splotches are simply deeper saturations of the color intended, and are a mark of hand-dyeing, as opposed to what a large commercial operation would produce.  It’s a good thing, but in the future I will try to avoid these issues.

I dyed the first batch using leftover double-mixed dyes from last week — combining dyes to create new colors and reduce the number of jars of leftover dyes.  Like, for #533-534, I used the leftover charcoal color and then added an extra scoop of straight black dye.  This Twinset came out as nearly-almost-pretty-close to black as I’ve done.  Twinset #541-542 is the leftover mixed gold-yellow, but there was enough of that color that I supplemented with a scoop of chestnut to create #551-552.  Twinset #555-556 is the leftover sky blue, while #247-248 is a blend of leftover teal and turquoise.

I dyed the second batch using mostly the new-to-me colors and used them straight without blending, except for the monochrome fade, which was a bit of new blue and leftover yellow.   For example, Twinset #537-538 is Wine, which came out more purple-y than the burgundy dye I normally use.  Twinset #543-544 is a color called Pearl Gray, but it looks very much like the gunmetal color I used many years ago — a sort of blue-ish cast on the gray.  Twinset #535-536 is a color called Jade Green.

All of these solids would be perfect for some amazing lacework or textured knitting – shawls, scarves, etc.  It’s never too early to start your gift-knitting for the holiday season, and because this is sock yarn,  your items can be washed in the gentle cycle and laid out to dry without fear of major shrinkage as happens with non-superwash wools.

If fancy lacework isn’t your forte, you might consider combining any of these solids with some of the multi-colored yarns on the Blog Reader Specials page.  Take any two or more from this week’s collection and add any number of previously shown Blog Reader Specials at the same discounted price.  (Note: all of the 2024 yarns are already reduced to $20.00 each!)

All of these are on Phydlbitz Sock 2.0, 75/25 25-micron superwash Merino/Nylon, 430+ yards each, and are normally $27.50.   For Saturday and Sunday, you may take any two or more skeins for just $26.00 each.

To claim the ones you want, please send me an email with your numbered requests.  I’ll mark it off from the Available Yarns tally chart down below, and I’ll send you PayPal invoice.

Available Yarns: 
Rack 1 – 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544
Rack 2 – 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556

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