June 23rd, 2014

After several hours of splitting, spinning, and setting the twist on my hand spun, today I was able to (finally) dye it! I actually dyed a skein yesterday, but I got another one done today (and plan to do several more). I was super excited since I hadn't dyed anything in awhile (unfortunately, all the wool I owned was already dyed, except for one ity-bity ball), and I had lots of ideas of what colors to use. But, I only had four skeins (two being quite small), so I had to choose my colors wisely. I was very pleased with the first one:

When it comes to dyeing yarn, yarn dyed in your favorite color is often the one you are most pleased with (with me, it's blue). It's hard to see in the photos, but there is a blotch of purple dyed into it (you can see a little bit of it in the first and second photo). I really like how this one came out. Hopefully my head won't get too full of ideas to the point where I have to exclude dyeing another blue hank of yarn :)

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I'm less pleased with the second one. I used red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple all even spaced apart in the part (in hopes of getting a rainbow skein).

What I got was more like a rainbow trapped in a thick, swampy fog:

In some lighting it looks good, while others it's just...bleh! Clearly not the look was going for. When I showed my younger sisters for the first time, they said it looked pretty. I think it's pretty (to a certain extent...), but I would have liked a rainbow colored hank more. Anywho, the past is in the past (Let it go! Let it-...sorry. Got caught up in the moment...). I can't re-dye it. At least it isn't a really ugly brown. That I would be upset with...