Tuesday, June 5, 2012

dyeing..... trials and errors... and a birthday request.

So, I have been working on the suggestions from my little giveaway.

So far, I have gotten to "Kaleidoscope", "Mother of Pearl" and "Harvest"
Kaleidoscope, (thank you Ladytats!) needs to be re-done , because the transistion between purple and orange needs to eased.  Also, I think the green needs to be darkened just a smidge.
What do you think?

Next, Bonnie's suggestion for "Mother of Pearl" had me scratching my head.  How in the world was I going to make this one happen?
I waited a little too late today to take pictures.  There was kind of an overcast, so this picture is actually  a little darker than the actual colors.


And then Martha's suggestion for Harvest had me really excited.  Except, I seem to have trouble with my browns.  This time it turned our really gray.  So, I think when I redo this one, I will use the same brown that I used in Peacock.  THEN, I tried to wing a dark red... and you as you can see, it looks like dark red violet.  
Plus, there are my usual holes that come with this dark pink color.  I really need to figure out how to fix that. I think I found a product that will help though today. :o)

So Martha, thank you so much for the idea.  I will try again to get something that I feel does your suggestion more justice though. 


SOOO, the skeins that are not going to the inspiring persons, will start to go in the shop on Friday!


OH and I did my first dyeing attempt at yarn the other day.
The reason for my dyeing yarn was so that I could send it a lady in Alaska who is going to crochet an elephant for Livi with it.

I am so excited to see how the elephant will turn out!!

But, here's what  the yarn looked like before I sent it:




ALSO, I have a somewhat silly favor to ask.  Next week is Livi's 5th birthday. (June 13th).  If anyone would like to send her a birthday card, I know that she would get the biggest kick out of it!  She absolutely loves to  go through the blogs with me.  So I know it will mean a lot to her. 
Anyway, if you send her a birthday card, I'll send you a coupon for free shipping to be used in my etsy shop. 
The coupon will be individual, so that means that you can use whenever you want.  




8 comments:

  1. June 13th will be my granddaughter Eva's 10th birthday!

    I love seeing all of your colors!

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  2. the colorway suggestions are all very interesting. Thank you for doing Kaleidoscope.

    and the other colors look good, tho I can see what you mean by a better transition between the purple and orange. I can imagine that brown and red would be hard to get right. then are always hard to match when sewing too.

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  3. the experimental HDTs look interesting. the yarn is gorgeous. i can't wait to see the crocheted ele!

    livi's very sweet in pink.

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  4. Please e-mail your address and as I would love to send a card to your daughter.
    sammystarbuck@aol.com

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  5. Browns and reds are really difficult to dye. The results look good anyway, I like the serendipity of the process. Glad I know what the yarn was for, I look forward to seeing the elephant! Can I send Livi an e-card? Too late for posting now. It's my daughter's birthday today, the parcel I sent two weeks ago arrived on the day.

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  6. Jess,

    Please send me your snail mail address so that I can send Livi a birthday card.

    sunela@yahoo.com

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  7. Your color experiments are beautiful!
    I've done a bit of dyeing myself, it was a lot of fun!

    I'd love to send Livi a birthday card! (Since I don't have any grandbabies of my own {pouty-face})

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  8. I really like the soft colors of Mother of Pearl. They are almost fairy like in the pictures.

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