Good morning!<\/p>\n What a beautiful day in Houston!\u00a0 I had a fun time dyeing yarns last night.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure what to expect, as I went into the session without a specific goal in mind.\u00a0 \u00a0Actually, if you know me, you know that this is how I normally approach a dye session — grab a random selection of 10 different dyes and then see what happens.<\/p>\n Four Twinsets in particular — #335-336, 339-340, 341-342, and 353-354 — are practically begging to be knit up with strong contrasts, either undyed off-white, deep charcoal, or some other solid contrast, either in stripes, stranded knitting, color blocks, intarsia verticals, or some other technique to show off the beautiful color arrays in the multi-color yarns.<\/p>\n Twinset #337-338 is a two-tone fade of violet and chestnut.\u00a0 I don’t think I have ever combined these two colors before, but they came out stunning, in my opinion.\u00a0 \u00a0All of the two-tones this week are perfect for knitting up with plain knitting to take full advantage of the two-tone effect.\u00a0 \u00a0Twinset #351-352 is a beautiful Foggy Fade, while #355-356 is a fog and a light martini olive fade.\u00a0 In a future session I want to\u00a0 capture that light olive color and dot it with bits of russet, reminiscent of the pimento bits in martini olives.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n This week’s Dump-Dyes — #345-345 was a Dump-Dye of all the remaining violet, navy, and other blue-related colors, and it came out a rich navy solid.\u00a0 Then for #357-358 I used up all the gold, yellow, gray and other colors, which resulted in a lush shade of grass green\u00a0 \u00a0Either of these would be perfect contrasts for an of the multi-colored skeins mentioned above.<\/p>\n By the way, I don’t do a Dump-Dye in every dyeing session, but when I do they nearly always result in deep rich solids (or nearly solid), so they are always great for your solid-color projects. Another fact is that the Dump-Dyes are created by combining remaining dyes from that day’s dyeing session, so they nearly always coordinate with at least one or two other yarns of that week’s session.<\/p>\n These are all on Phydlbitz 2.0, 75\/25 25-micron Superwash Merino\/Nylon, 430+ yards, and are regularly priced at $27.50 each.\u00a0 For Saturday and Sunday, however, you can claim the ones you want for just $25.50 each.<\/p>\n To claim the ones you want, just send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your numbered requests and I’ll send you a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 Once paid, I will prepare your shipping label right away so that I can ship as soon as the yarns are fully dried and ready to go.<\/p>\n I expect to have these ready to ship on or about Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n Available Yarns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Update: The yarns not claimed during the Preview Pricing period have now been posted to the Blog Reader Specials page.\u00a0 Here is the group shot of them all. Good morning! What a beautiful day in Houston!\u00a0 I had a fun time dyeing yarns last night.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure what to expect, as I went into … Continue reading These Are Ripe for Contrast!<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BRS25-09May-Done-all.jpg\")
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