{"id":671,"date":"2024-09-07T16:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T17:24:58","slug":"wow-such-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/wow-such-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Such Color!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Saturday!<\/p>\n

I had a marvelous time playing with color in last night’s dye session.\u00a0 As always, I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to try this week, but I pulled out some dyes I don’t normally use, including a couple of the new fluorescent\/neon type dyes I got recently.<\/p>\n

Every Twinset dyed this week is a combination of at least two dyes, but most have three or more.\u00a0 Twinset #655-656 is the only wet-on-dry splattered technique with sky blue, navy, and a couple other blues.\u00a0 Putting wet dye on (nearly) dry yarn leaves lots of white space all along the strand.<\/p>\n

Normally my sequence is to put all the yarns into a pre-dye soaker solution with a surfactant that helps remove any oils from the yarn-spinning process at the mill.\u00a0 Oils left on the yarn sometimes act as a resist so that dyes don’t strike well.\u00a0 Nearly all dyers do some sort of process to remove those oils.\u00a0 The pre-dye soak also opens up the fibers better.\u00a0 Then I put the yarn into the spin cycle in the washing machine to remove as much of the pre-dye soak solution; this is the part where the yarn comes out “dry,”\u00a0 but fluffed up a bit.<\/p>\n

Then I re-soak each Twinset individually in a warm bath to re-wet it so that the wet dye is better able to wick along the fibers, whichever technique I use for applying the dye.<\/p>\n

Often when I dye I use up little remainders of dyes into what I call DumpDyes — combining all the leftover dye into a single blended color; I do this when there is not enough leftover dye worth saving, but still a little more than I want to just pour out.\u00a0 It’s a way to create totally one-of-a-kind solids that cannot be repeated.\u00a0 This week we have two<\/em> DumpDyes:\u00a0 Twinset #659-660 is a mix of magenta, fluorescent red, espresso bean, Teddy Bear Brown, and a couple others; Twinset #671-672 is a mix of all the blues that I had used last night.<\/p>\n

Many of this week’s collection will knit up into fabulous Fraternal Twin socks; i.e., they will clearly have matching colors, but the colors will not sprinkle or spread exactly the same on each sock.\u00a0 When using Twinsets for larger-than-socks projects (shawls, scarves, baby blankets, etc.)\u00a0 it is recommended that you ball up both yarns and then alternate between the balls every two or four rows.<\/p>\n

If you need more than two skeins in a coordinated set of matching colors, feel free to request it as a custom dye job.\u00a0 Likewise, if you need a yarn other than Phydlbitz Sock, I can access most standard yarn bases that I don’t keep in stock.\u00a0 Just let me know what type of yarn you want, how many, what color(s), and how soon you need it.<\/p>\n

All the yarns this week are Phydlbitz Sock (75\/25 Superwash Corriedale\/Nylon, 430 yards) and were dyed as Twinsets.<\/p>\n

Normally, Phydlbitz Sock is sold individually at $27.50, but for Saturday and Sunday (Sep 7-8) you can take any two or more skeins at Preview Pricing for $25.50 each.\u00a0 \u00a0For this weekend’s Preview Pricing these can be a matching Twinset or any non-matching skeins.<\/p>\n

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your selections, I will mark them off the Available Yarns tally chart below.\u00a0 This helps others see what has already been taken at the time of their visit.<\/p>\n

I expect to have this week’s yarns prepared for shipping on or about Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Available Yarns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 1 – <\/strong>649, 650<\/span><\/del>, 651, 652, <\/strong>653, 654<\/span><\/del>, 655, 656, 657, 658, <\/strong>659, 660<\/span><\/del><\/span>
\nRack 2 – <\/strong>661, 662<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>663, 664<\/span><\/del>, 665, 666, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Saturday! I had a marvelous time playing with color in last night’s dye session.\u00a0 As always, I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to try this week, but I pulled out some dyes I don’t normally use, including a couple of the new fluorescent\/neon type dyes I got recently. Every Twinset … Continue reading Wow! Such Color!<\/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-671","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\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}