{"id":2451,"date":"2010-04-22T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2010-04-22T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:28:00","slug":"weird-dye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Weird dye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4543542374\/\" title=\"dye mocha rage by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/4543542374_8097db1bee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" alt=\"dye mocha rage\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the &#8220;mocha rage&#8221; 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&#8217;t rage-filled anymore, so it did its job.  I hadn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4543542684\/\" title=\"alpaca silk by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4543542684_a42a01a898.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" alt=\"alpaca silk\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second set I dyed yesterday, chestnut and cherry red.  It&#8217;s Blue Sky alpaca\/silk.  I want to make a scarf and couldn&#8217;t find a color I liked, so I dyed my own.  However, this yarn is freaking me out.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell what color it is.  It&#8217;s a little bit darker than it appears in this picture.  People who I&#8217;ve shown it to seem evenly divided among brown and red and purple.  I&#8217;m not sure myself.  My eye can&#8217;t quite resolve it.  It&#8217;s like one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Duck-Rabbit_illusion.jpg\" target=\"blank\">rabbit\/duck pictures<\/a> where you see one thing and then you see the other.  I don&#8217;t think I can make a scarf with it because it&#8217;s going to make me nuts to look at it constantly while knitting.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to overdye it, but I can&#8217;t decide whether to go toward brown, purple, red, or some other direction.  Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the &#8220;mocha rage&#8221; 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&#8217;t rage-filled anymore, so it did its job. I hadn&#8217;t done a brown before, so it was good [&hellip;]<\/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\/2451"}],"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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}