Dye Fail Turns Into a Win
I dyed the last of my BFL top that I got earlier this summer. Or at least, I tried to; I was using food coloring, and trying to avoid over-acidifying the reds so they would actually stay in the fiber. Of course, this meant the dye mostly ran off the fiber and didn’t set! Grr! It was supposed to be dark chocolate browns and caramels, and it turned into Autumn leaf colors!
Luckily, I like those colors, so it’s all good; I just wasted some dye. Since I’m in the process of switching over to Jacquard dyes anyway, no biggie. Next batch of fiber will be more acidic!
New yarn turned out gorgeous anyway; this is my second attempt at spindle spinning. The plies are much more even than the first batch, though there are still some thick/thin bits. I’m going to make a hat!
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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