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Weekending - sewing and dyeing

On Saturday I did some practice dying on minis. I was practicing rainbow and speckles. I wasn't sure about the speckles until we (Leon actually) balled them up.

 They look completely  different and so pretty:

 I was very happy with my attempts at rainbow. Happy enough that on Sunday I gathered up my courage to dye the yarn for the Tracery Vest. I've wanted to make this since I first saw it, but I want to steek it, and I couldn't find the colours I wanted in non-superwash yarn. So I've dyed them myself.
I'm quite happy with these, although I did learn a lot. Despite the fact that I dyed them together (as in on each other, not next to each other) they are far from identical. Also, while all the colours of the rainbow are here the red spectrum dominates and there is almost no discrete blue or yellow. The colours actually look quite different in real ife, and I suspect will look even more different when reskeined and knitted. I'm excited to knit with it.

 I also finished up what may be my last lot of masks - some for Elise and her Dad, some for my work colleagues and a couple more for us. I'm out of fabric again, so we'll see whether I order more, or if I'm done. 
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  1. Jeannie Gray Knits30 July, 2020

    You did a fantastic job dying the yarn. Every time I've ever tried speckles, I end up with a big muddy mess of ugliness. Yours are beautiful!

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