{"id":4419,"date":"2026-10-04T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2026-10-04T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:04:48","slug":"lets-go-for-a-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/lets-go-for-a-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go For A Dip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, and Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>I have to start this morning by sharing a funny my daughter shared with me on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>What do you call a made-up color?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Being a dyer, I should have known this right away, but I didn&#8217;t so she clued me in:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A pigment of your imagination.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am tickled she is becoming adept at passing along a good Dad joke, just like me.<\/p>\n<p>Let me start this week&#8217;s collection by saying I did not mix up any green dyes this week.\u00a0 All of the greens you see today are the result of using blue-adjacent dyes (including violet, turquoise, and others) sharing fiber space with yellow-adjacent dyes (yellow, orange, and golds).\u00a0 This is what happens when you put dye onto fiber and allow the dyes to migrate, mix, and blend on their own.<\/p>\n<p>As today&#8217;s title suggests, most of this week&#8217;s Twinsets were double-dyed, first with a liberal application from the squirt bottles, followed by a dip in a clear light acid bath to spread excess dyes and smooth out the transitions.\u00a0 This was especially helpful with the sprinkle or confetti dyes, as on #785-786, 789-790, and 793-794.\u00a0 Any of these Twinsets would make amazing baby blankets, full of color and variety, perhaps combined with stripes of a nearly solid like #775-776 or 797-798.\u00a0 \u00a0There are only 2 Twinsets (#777-778 and 791-792, the seafoam fade) that weren&#8217;t double-dyed with a dip.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the darker skeins, like #783-784 and #795-796 remind me of creeks and streams with pretty rocks beneath the water and plants along the banks &#8212; soothing and comforting, at least to my eye. These would make amazing workday socks, or knit double stranded into terrific winter caps.<\/p>\n<p>Twinset #777-778 is almost a monochrome fade, but the light-dark contrast isn&#8217;t as striking as my normal fades.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more like a pale blush fade, and would even work as a nearly-solid band against stripes from most of the other skeins.<\/p>\n<p>Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 is 75% Superwash 25-micron Merino\/25% Nylon, and 460 yards, normally $28.00 each.<\/p>\n<p>For Sunday and Monday, visitors are invited to take any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>two or more<\/strong><\/span> skeins from this week&#8217;s collection (BRS26-#775-798) with Previewing Pricing discount at $26.00 per skein.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are LOADS of previously shown <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/blog-reader-specials\/\"><strong>Blog Reader Specials<\/strong><\/a> that would pair up beautifully with many of this week&#8217;s colors, so you can take two or more skeins from this week&#8217;s collection and then pick any previously posted yarns to get those discounted as well.<\/p>\n<p>To claim the ones you want, <a href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\"><strong>just send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your numbered selections.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have these dried and ready to ship on or about Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Available\u00a0 Yarns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 1 &#8211; <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">775<\/span><\/del><strong>, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">781<\/span><\/del><strong>, 782, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">783, 784<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">785<\/span><\/del><strong>, 786<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 2 &#8211; <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">787<\/span><\/del><strong>, 788, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">789<\/span><\/del><strong>, 790, 791, 792, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">793<\/span><\/del><strong>, 794, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">795, 796<\/span><\/del><strong>, 797, 798<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns in many colors, hanging on rack to dry.\" width=\"800\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack1-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack1-768x738.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4421\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack2.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns in many colors, hanging on rack to dry.\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack2-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BRS26-03Oct-Rack2-768x713.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, and Happy Sunday! I have to start this morning by sharing a funny my daughter shared with me on Facebook: What do you call a made-up color? Being a dyer, I should have known this right away, but I didn&#8217;t so she clued me in: A pigment of your imagination. I am tickled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/lets-go-for-a-dip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Go For A Dip!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4419","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\/4419","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=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}