{"id":513,"date":"2006-04-14T19:52:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-04-14T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T09:52:43","slug":"513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then I get an idea in my head, and it possesses me until I do something about it. These ideas can be about anything. Cleaning out the wardrobe, rearranging the CD collection, obtaining a particular item from eBay, or a whole set of books by a particular author, anything is possible.
\nLast week I got an idea in my head about dyeing. It had been in my head for a few days, but was brought to the forefront by the gift of Knit Picks dyeable yarn I received from Tammy.
\nBeing the sock yarn whore that I am, I’ve been reading posts on various blogs about dyeing self striping yarn. Then I started dreaming about it. That’s when I decided that it was time to actually dye some striping sock yarn of my own. Because you know, I don’t have enough difficulty now deciding which sock yarn to knit up next!
\nI decided that I wanted to make yarn with graduated stripes, similar to Trekking XXL. I only had dye on hand in pink, blue and purple, and all are vivid colours. I just figured that I could use less dye for paler shades. I wanted to have three shades of one colour, striping first in a pale shade, to a mid shade to a bright shade.
\nFirst of all, I worked out roughly how long I wanted each repeat, then tried to work out how big a skein I needed. Then I wound the skein. This was a rather amusing part. Our house is tiny, and to get the length I needed involved various chairs and an obstacle course to wind the skein. I think if I ever do this again, I need to find or make a warping board.
\nAnyway, the skein was wound (I forgot to take pictures at that stage), and I let it soak overnight.
\nThe dyes I use are Landscapes dyes, and the colour I used is “Galah”, a bright pink. First off, I decided the dye the whole skein the palest colour.
\nLandscapes recommends that for each 100g of yarn, you should use 10g of dye. So, for the whole 100g skein, I used 1g of dye, figuring I’d get a nice light shade of pink.
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\nMaybe not! 1\/10th of the recommended amount of dye, and it still came out this colour!
\nAt this stage, I decided that getting three shades of pink would be near on impossiblethis time, and decided just to have two stripes. So I dyed half of the yarn (50g) with 5g of colour, as recommended.
\nI don’t know if I’m totally happy with the result.
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\nI had hoped for a better contrast. No way was I going to get three shades of pink! So next time (if there is a next time), I think I’ll have to start with 0.1g of colour.
\nI had fun with the dyeing, although making huge skeins is a little tedious. For that matter, so is reskeining.
\nWhen wet, I wasn’t happy with the colours, although now that it’s dry and I’ve turned it into two wound skeins, I think it looks pretty cool.
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\nThe contrast seems to look better here, so I’m hoping I’ll get some pretty funky stripes happening.
\nI haven’t balled it up or started to knit with it yet, becuase I’m quite enjoying just looking at the skeins. And if I start to knit these socks, DH may get a bit stroppy, seeing as the socks i started for him back in December are still only half done.
\nAnd, speaking of DH’s socks, progress has been made.
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\nI’ve given up on the 2 circs method, and they’re back on the trusty old DPNS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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