Sometimes the dye pot plays tricks on me. Most of the time, these tricks turn out to be happy accidents. A chance blending of colors or colors behaving in ways I didn't predict. Recently I was finishing up a long dyeing session and wanted to use up some dyes. It was a case of toss them together on top of some extra bits and see what happens.
Yellow with splotches of red. Be still my heart! The colors are brighter in real life (my pictures always look washed out when I post them to my blog - so vexing!). The fiber is 15.5 micron merino. That is squarely in the cashmere range for softness with a 3 inch staple length. Hubba hubba! This fiber may be my latest BFF (Best Fiber Friend). I think it will take a trip through my wheel tonight.
Another Happy Accident came from a large dye pot full of fibers. I had intended to get a red, a nice semi-solid. Instead I got a variegated red to peach blend. A new colorway, called Winesap, was born. (This may help to explain why I have over 100 named colorways.) On my way past the spinning wheel I tripped and 14 lovely ounces of BFL got spun up into a 3-ply worsted weight.
Fiber (again with the washed out picture issue):
Here are some singles yarn:
I am knitting it into a thick shawl to warm me on cool evenings. So far it is all garter stitch, lacy goodness coming soon! (Can't wait, garter bores me to tears!)
I love the way the yarn has stripes and the colors shift from light to dark. Though the camera does imply more contrast than my eyes perceive in real life.
That's all I've got for now. I'm working on some fun things I can't blog about yet. Stay tuned!
Both colors are gorgeous I think the top one would make great socks.
Posted by: Rae | March 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Love it all! That shawl is going to be smoking! Make 1 for me next?
Posted by: Necia | March 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM
If you photograph your fiber in natural light (daylight, no sun) I find the colors are more likely to show up the same in real life. Flashes don't work for me.
Lovely fiber and dyes!
Posted by: Renee | March 17, 2011 at 02:24 PM
Glad to see you are back to blogging;) Love the colors. And you know, I think red is a very hard color to photograph especially with a flash:)
Posted by: Stephanie Stratton | March 21, 2011 at 08:26 AM