{"id":776,"date":"2008-03-06T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=776"},"modified":"2008-03-06T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:15:11","slug":"itchy-fingers-up-to-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Itchy fingers, up to no good!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I mentioned the other day when my new shawl book arrived that it had given me itchy fingers. I resisted for a few days, then I could resist no more.
\nI went stash diving to see what I could find to knit Hyrna Herborgar<\/a>. It calls for Icelandic laceweight, which I don’t have. I did however, find this anonymous cream single that I got from eBay years ago. No idea what it was, it was just advertised as laceweight wool, but I figured it was close enough to Icelandic Laceweight. I had just over 100g, and that was around 800 metres according to my calculations.
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\nBut I didn’t want to knit in cream again, so I decided to dye it. Here’s where all the dramas started. I decided I’d like to knit in blue for a change, so I pulled out my dyes and decided on Gaywool acid dye in Iceberg. The colour on the label was a nice light blue.
\nWhat came out was much closer to grey than I wanted.
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\nSo I redyed it with just a tiny bit of Landscapes Opal. This time it was a much prettier blue, but not exactly<\/em> light blue.
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\nBut that’s okay, I liked it. So I cast on, and got going.
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\nProblem. I’m not happy with this project in this yarn. Back to the old drawing board.
\nI thought about it overnight, and decided that I wanted my Hyrna to be red. The only red laceweight I have is earmarked for another project. But that’s okay, because I have some Gaywool “Garnet” dye in my dye stash, and garnets are red, aren’t they?
\nSo I wound off around 500 metres of Zephyr in Ladyslipper (Pink) and dyed it with the Garnet dye. It turned a kind of rusty colour.
\n(I should point out right now that there are three colours that I’m really, really not fond of. Orange, Brown and Yellow. This will make sense in a bit)
\nI did not like the rusty colour, so I decided to throw some hot pink dye at it and see what would happen. What happened? Not much. So in my infinite wisdom, I threw some purple dye in the pot, hoping to brighten it up.
\nHmmm. It didn’t exactly brighten it up.
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\nIt’s brown. I have Brown Zephyr. It’s a kind of purply brown, but it’s still brown. With hotspots of rusty orange and purple, where I had the skein tied too tightly.
\nNot happy. I figured that the mistake must have been either the silk content of the Zephyr, or maybe starting with pink yarn. So I dug out some KnitPicks bare in laceweight (880 yards), and dyed that with the Garnet dye.
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\nThis is not Garnet. Garnets are red! I bought Garnet dye, because I thought it would be RED! I cannot make my yarn red.
\nAnd I’m tired of trying, so I pulled something else out of the stash instead, and I’m going to use that for Hyrna, because I’m easily frustrated.
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\nFibreworks Possum\/Merino Laceweight <\/a>in Pink Correa. If I can’t have a red Hyrna, I’ll have a pink one.
\nIf you’d like one of my misdyes, let me know, and it’s yours. Just tell me which one you’re interested in. I’ll leave it open until Sunday night. If more than one person is interested in one of the yarns, I’ll draw names from a hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I mentioned the other day when my new shawl book arrived that it had given me itchy fingers. I resisted for a few days, then I could resist no more. I went stash diving to see what I could find to knit Hyrna Herborgar. It calls for Icelandic laceweight, which I don’t have. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}