Happy Saturday!
Yesterday’s dye session was fun, and a little surprising. To start, I had 3 nearly full jars of leftover dyes from last week, blended together from the several remainder jars. Usually my remainder jars are less than half-full, often barely one-quarter full, so I mix them with similar or related colors. This creates very unique colors not typically provided by the dye manufacturers. So, anyway, those 3 reblended jars, plus all 7 of the newly mixed dyes were all used yesterday, leaving this glorious mess of empty jars and squeeze bottles.
My first surprise came early — using the run-off dyes from the first Twinset, I created a monochrome fade that looked to me like the dried and wilting leaves at the top of celery (#803-804). It tempered a little bit during the steaming process so now it looks to me like a Green Olive Fade. But no matter, it came out fairly even. Then later on in the session I used run-off from another Twinset and came out with what looked like a Roasted Cantaloupe Fade (#807-808), but again during the steaming it tempered into something a little different.
I learned two things from this — first, don’t name colors until they are fully done tempering in the steamer; and second, stop dyeing yarn will painfully hungry because everything looks oddly edible.
Another monochrome fade (#817-818) came out looking somewhat blue-gray. I like doing the monochrome fades because I envision them being used in shawls or blankets with simple stitching but allowing the undulating colors to do the work of creating motion. This should be especially useful when using multiple different Fades in a stripe, chevron, waves, or other pattern. All of the monochrome fades are on roughly 72-inch repeats, which is very useful for a dramatic woven project, as one customer showed me several years ago.
Sometimes I will do a 36-inch repeat in a monochrome fade, but that usually works better when doing single skeins rather than Twinsets.
This week’s DumpDyes, done at the end of the evening, are #797-798, combining all the blue and blue-related colors, looking like a dark spruce sort of color; and #809-810 using all the red and red-related colors, creating a very deep rust.
If you want to see a particular Twinset in a close-up image please let me know before Monday so I can photograph them before I start reskeining on Tuesday.
These are all on Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 — 75/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino/Nylon, labeled at 430+ yards but they run 460-480 yards and a little heavier than 4.0 ounces. Phydlbitz Sock is normally $28.00 per skein, but visitors are invited to claim matching Twinsets for $26.00 per skein when you order on Saturday or Sunday.
To claim the ones you want, just send me an email and I will send a PayPal invoice. If you are outside the U.S., please let me know.
I expect to have this week’s collection ready to ship on Wednesday or Thursday.
Available Yarns:
Rack 1 – 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808
Rack 2 – 809, 810, 811, 812. 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820
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