I've been frustrated with my lack of being able to mix the basic colors and get different shades and hues. It seemed to me that no matter what I did, I was ending up with the same shades of colors no matter how I mixed the colors up.
It didn't matter how many youtube videos I watched and playing around with the colors, something wasn't clicking.
Some of my fiber friends suggested I get a color wheel so that I could see how the colors played with
each other. I read my copy of the Twisted Sister's Sock Workbook" yet again and decided to play around with food coloring. Yes, food coloring. Right now I don't have any plastic bottles that I can dedicate to acid dyes and honestly, in the new kitchen, I'm not sure I wanted the acid dye powder flying all over the place.
So ... I grabbed some of my handy-dandy canning jars and mixed up a few colors and measure out a yard or so of Superwash wool top and experimented.
I'm really pleased with what turned out. I kettled dyed and handpainted the yarn. I took my time and let one color exhaust before adding another color.
It's so happy.
I originally mixed up red, yellow and orange colors and towards the end of the process I took the little bottle of green dye and just dropped drops here and there over the fiber. You can see in the above photo where the green broke up a little bit and turned blue.
Like I said, so very happy with how it turned out.
Then I subscribed to the Knitting Blooms Podcast and saw she had shared a tutorial on handpainting roving.
The clouds parted and the angels started singing. Her tutorial was exactly what I need for handpainting fiber to click. Yes, that day I went to my local Wal mart and bought what I needed and that night I used leftover dye and dyed 3 ounces of superwash wool top.
I can't help but smile when I look at this braid. I can't WAIT to spin it up. But first, I need to finish plying my Tour de Fleece 2012 fiber.
I can't wait to break out the dyepots again.
1 comment:
Love the colors in both! Such fun, bright happiness!
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