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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI was going for green with striations that were variations in shade but not entirely different colors. When it first came out I thought the saturation wasn’t strong enough, so I gave it another bath in a light sky blue. It turned out a little bluer than I was anticipating (although the picture makes it look bluer than life), but I’m very pleased with the result. I’m all about the blue.<\/p>\n I have a pattern in mind for this, assuming I can clear the decks of Jayne work.<\/p>\n I learn a little more each time I dye. Perhaps it’s time to start buying in bulk and increase the frequency of my dyeing. If I do that, I’ll probably have to start selling, though – I can’t use all the yarn I’ve got, I can’t clutter up the house with more. Big Tina will easily hold sweater quantities or permit me to do larger dye lots at once.<\/p>\n I’m not where I want to be yet, but learning is a process that never ends. I’m feeling like what I can make beautiful yarn while I improve. Maybe it is time to release a few skeins into the wild.<\/p>\n For now though, it’s back to knitting Jayne hats.<\/p>\n This is two skeins of Cascade 220 superwash dyed in my dyepot Big Tina. Doing these right after the rose-colored skein of non-superwash Cascade 220 taught me more about the difference in uptake in superwash and conventional wool and how the addition of acid early in the process affects strike time. I was going for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tina](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3519\/3862012298_66de35c8fb_m.jpg\")
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<\/a>This is two skeins of Cascade 220 superwash dyed in my dyepot Big Tina. Doing these right after the rose-colored skein of non-superwash Cascade 220<\/a> taught me more about the difference in uptake in superwash and conventional wool and how the addition of acid early in the process affects strike time.<\/p>\n
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