{"id":2429,"date":"2025-08-15T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:40:23","slug":"not-a-purple-was-used-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/not-a-purple-was-used-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Purple Was Used!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday!<\/p>\n

I had an “interesting” dye session last night.\u00a0 I was expecting solidly-solid colors, and some of the Twinsets complied, while others made up their own destination.\u00a0 Eh, it happens that way sometimes.\u00a0 But in the end, they’re all beautiful colors.<\/p>\n

I did want to point out that I didn’t use any purple dye powder — all the seeming purples (#583-584, 591-592, and 601-602) are mixes of assorted blues and reds, mostly remixed from\u00a0 previous weeks.\u00a0 I didn’t like\u00a0 601-602 to begin with so I added a blip of navy into the dye bath, but failed to completely dissolve the new dye powder fully; thus, there are some interesting navy blotches in the mix of two-tone red-maroon fade.<\/p>\n

Twinset #581-582 is a monochrome fade in one of my favorite shades of blue — not quite cadet blue, not quite gunmetal, either; just calmly assertive blue, in my opinion.\u00a0 I prefer the fade more than a solidly-solid.\u00a0 What you make of it, of course, is entirely up to you, but I can envision a handsome scarf, shawl, or socks.<\/p>\n

Twinset #585-586 is one of those blended dyes that looked fine in the dye bath, but seemed to separate during the steamer process as dyes settled into place.<\/p>\n

Twinset #599-600 started as a mostly solid yellow, but it felt too bright, so I dropped the last little bit of red into the dye bath and slowly dipped the Twinset to create a two-tone fade of yellow-orange.\u00a0 Very vibrant and striking, and would look amazing when combined with #597-598, which is a blended dye of Espresso Bean and Teddy Bear Brown.<\/p>\n

Twinset #603-604 is a new-to-me dye called Golden Grown.\u00a0 #593-594 is another new-to-me color called Topaz Yellow.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure these two Twinsets would work together in stripes or maybe a subtle stranded colorwork pattern.<\/p>\n

All of these are on Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 (75\/25 SW Merino\/Nylon, 430+ yards) and are available for $27.50 each.<\/p>\n

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your selection numbers.\u00a0 I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below and send you a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 On payment I’ll buy and print your shipping label so when these yarns are dried and ready to ship, they can go right away.<\/p>\n

I expect these to ship on Wednesday.\u00a0 I’ll be in clinic on Tuesday afternoon and probably won’t be here to catch the mail carrier to pass them off.<\/p>\n

Available Yarns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 1 – <\/strong>581, 582<\/span><\/del>, 583, <\/strong>584<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>585, 586<\/span><\/del>, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 2 – 593, 594, 595, <\/strong>596<\/span><\/del>, 597, <\/strong>598<\/span><\/del>, 599, 600, <\/strong>601, 602<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>603, 604<\/span><\/del><\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! I had an “interesting” dye session last night.\u00a0 I was expecting solidly-solid colors, and some of the Twinsets complied, while others made up their own destination.\u00a0 Eh, it happens that way sometimes.\u00a0 But in the end, they’re all beautiful colors. I did want to point out that I didn’t use any purple dye … Continue reading Not a Purple Was Used!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-reader-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}