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let me distract you

Posted on | February 20, 2007 | 7 Comments

Well, I was SURE I would finish the right front of my cardi last night and get a good start on a sleeve, but thanks to progesterone, I sacked out on the couch before 9:00 and still have about eight rows to go.  No more medicine until right before bedtime, for sure!  So, since it pretty much looks the same, I’ll share pics of the roving I dyed this weekend.

This is brown/white mills ends, dyed with Country Classics dye in Pumpkin.  This dye contains the mordant, so there’s no messing with vinegar or sodium acetate.  Rae Jean at Sheep to Shawl GAVE me a jar to try out and let her know what I thought.  I won’t be buying it.  I can’t say 100% that it’s the dye’s fault because the instructions are to dissolve the dye powder in boiling water, bring your water to a boil, and then add your wool, and I didn’t boil my wool.  I used my crockpot, which I’ve done many, many times before, and “cooked” the wool for three hours on high.  What you’re seeing here is the result of SIX hours of cooking, and the color just isn’t that great.  This was part of my Saturday bad dyeing experience.  The other part was too horrible to even photograph.  I hid it at the bottom of my fiber box.

This I dyed using mason jars in my crockpot and it’s very stripey, albeit more Easter-eggy than what I was aming for.  I have no idea where the little shots of lavendar came from.

Now THIS, THIS was supposed to be peach, turquoise and olive.  I swear, I mixed up olive.  The dye was olive in the squirt bottle.  It was olive when I tested it on a paper towel.  In the wool?  No olive.  None.  It’s pretty – I like the colors fine, but dang it, where’s my olive?

I had dinner Sunday night with Stacey and Grace, we met at Chez Lulu where we KIP’d and I KUI’d (one glass of Vouvray that I paid $8 for and they served it in a juice glass.  I’m so over that.  Wine served in jelly jars was cute and kitschy for awhile, but if I pay $8 for a glass of wine, give me a decent wine glass, people).  I asked Stacey’s advice about the olive thing and she said forget about mixing secondary/tertiary colors – buy the ones you want to dye with.  But, you know, I’m a sucker for a challenge.  I think it happened because I don’t have any brown dye and tried to make my own as a base.  Or maybe that’s just my reasoning to justify buying more dye.  It was great to see Stacey and of course, Grace, and I’d post a picture but I think the waitress was kind of ticked that we’d taken a table for two hours and then asked her to take our picture with three separate cameras, so the picture she took with mine was MOST unflattering and I just can’t do that to myself, ya know? 

I’m off for a belated Valentine’s lunch with SB!  It’s one of our few traditions – I take him to lunch every Valentine’s Day.  Two years ago, I cried during lunch because I thought he would never ask me to marry him and I was on that fence of Waiting Forever v. Ending the Relationship.  Little did I know he was just waiting for the ring to arrive.  Silly me.  I’m glad I didn’t end the relationship! 

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