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Weird dye

dye mocha rage
This is the “mocha rage” I dyed yesterday. 100% sportweight wool, dye with Jacquard acid dyes in brown, chestnut, cherry red, red-orange, and black. It turned out all right. By the time I started it up I wasn’t rage-filled anymore, so it did its job. I hadn’t done a brown before, so it was good to branch out. Literally branch, actually, since I suspended part of it out of the dyepot using a large stick from the back yard in order to get two different shades.

alpaca silk

This is the second set I dyed yesterday, chestnut and cherry red. It’s Blue Sky alpaca/silk. I want to make a scarf and couldn’t find a color I liked, so I dyed my own. However, this yarn is freaking me out.

I can’t tell what color it is. It’s a little bit darker than it appears in this picture. People who I’ve shown it to seem evenly divided among brown and red and purple. I’m not sure myself. My eye can’t quite resolve it. It’s like one of those rabbit/duck pictures where you see one thing and then you see the other. I don’t think I can make a scarf with it because it’s going to make me nuts to look at it constantly while knitting.

I think I need to overdye it, but I can’t decide whether to go toward brown, purple, red, or some other direction. Thoughts?


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  1. April 22nd, 2010 at 17:25 | #1

    I’m glad the mocha rage dying worked, and you got a beautiful skein of yarn out of it! I love the colors! And I am sad that the purple-red-brown yarn must be overdyed, because it is beautiful in the photographs… But better that than going nuts! I’m sure the overdyed color will be beautiful, too!

  2. Anonymous
    April 23rd, 2010 at 04:11 | #2

    DuckRabbit Yarn

    Leave it like it is
    Never mind the red purple brown
    Just leave it like it is
    It’s fine.

    Seriously – I like it. At least, in the picture.

  3. Anonymous
    April 23rd, 2010 at 04:12 | #3

    Re: DuckRabbit Yarn

    Forgot to add – that was from me.

    -Laura

  4. April 23rd, 2010 at 10:27 | #4

    Don’t overdye it, it’s gorgeous! I love colors like that, where you can’t quite tell what it is. So much more depth that way. But yeah, I guess if it’ll cost you your sanity…

    The yarn I’m working with right now is giving me a little of that. Looking at all the skeins together, it’s a light blue, but while I’m knitting, every so often I think, “Hmmm… maybe this is really a pale spearminty green?” How can it be both???

  5. April 23rd, 2010 at 10:53 | #5

    Re: DuckRabbit Yarn

    I knew. 🙂

  6. April 23rd, 2010 at 10:54 | #6

    I actually do have two more undyed skeins. I could leave these as they are and still make two more for the scarf. Hmm.

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