{"id":1791,"date":"2014-08-23T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2014-08-23T03:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T03:38:31","slug":"dying-yarn-for-8th-color-astoria-sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2014\/08\/dying-yarn-for-8th-color-astoria-sock\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying yarn for 8th color, Astoria sock"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is basically the e-mail that Kate sent me, showing her process in creating the 8th color for an Astoria Sock kit, as we contemplate a KAL (knit-a-long).\u00a0 I found it so fascinating that I asked her if I could share, and she agreed. I am continually amazed and intrigued with the dying process – the artistry and patience involved, as well as the science.\u00a0 Don’t forget to vote, in the comments, on which color we should choose!\u00a0 See yesterday’s blog post for full details.<\/p>\n

Guest blog: Kate Bachus (A Hundred Ravens)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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All right, here’s some stuff!<\/p>\n

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I knew I wanted to try both a warmer blue and a cooler blue, because there are both warm and cool color combinations in the minis.\u00a0 I knew a true warm would definitely work; I wasn’t sure about a true cool, so I started with a warm blue in both cases.\u00a0 This blue is a combination of midnight blue and black.\u00a0 Two skeins!\u00a0 I was happy with this blue for the warm, so I went on to the cooler blue.
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For the second skein, I overdyed the first color with a very little bit of a cool, florescent blue.\u00a0 I was happy with this one too, so I set both these blues aside.\u00a0 Blues are pretty easy, and almost any blue looks good! Plus people like blues and purples, so dyers get a lot of practice working with those shades.\u00a0 I can do blues in my sleep! :D<\/p>\n

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Yellow, however, is not so easy at all.\u00a0 The world is full of some truly awful yellows, and even of the decent yellows, it’s hard to get people to agree on a color they like.\u00a0 You’d said “buttery,” I think, and that was a good jumping off point.\u00a0 Our house yellow, Apollo, is a very strong, golden, bright yellow.\u00a0 It has a hit of red in it to make it gold, but it’s nothing like what I picture when I think “buttery.”<\/p>\n

The first yellow was a disaster.\u00a0 In fact, it was orange!!\u00a0 I’m used to working with a cool yellow primary for the most part, and I’d gone warm for our yellow. I didn’t realize how little red it would take to make orange with that yellow.\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 Back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

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Well… at least it was yellow and not orange?<\/p>\n

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This might, *might* be a good yellow for baby things.\u00a0 I think.\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 Regardless, it was pretty anemic so I doubled the recipe I’d just used.\u00a0 Because despite it being anemic, it did seem to have the right tone…<\/p>\n

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Much better!\u00a0 I’d wound up with a warm, buttery yellow that once it dried and lightened (you have to factor that in when you’re judging the quality of a color on a wet skein!), might nicely compliment the existing colors.<\/p>\n

Speaking of, once the skeins were cooked and dried, I set them out next to the other colors.\u00a0 Here’s how they look!<\/p>\n

(Although these were taken outside, photos are notoriously bad — particularly my photos! — for getting true yarn colors, so allow for that…)<\/p>\n

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