I've been having lots of acid-dye fun lately. I've also been having a lot of fun experimenting with thicker spinning. When I first got started, my goal was to be able to spin consistent, thin yarn. Now I'm trying to get back into spinning worsted and bulky weight yarns. I've made several skeins so far, but, since I am a 3-year old, I'm writing about the last one first.
The idea for this yarn started with a birthday gift. I had visited a friend and admired a painting she had in her kitchen. For my birthday, she painted me a replica of it. The painting is simple - sunset, water. The colors are not simple. The blues and greens in the ocean, especially, are just wonderfully complex. And beautiful.
So fast forward to me with my big box o'dye. I made a huge mess (on the tarp!) in my kitchen the weekend after Christmas. I dyed two hanks of roving in shades of midnight blue, blue, dark spruce green, and darker spruce green.
Yeah, kinda blurry. I spun this yarn thicker than anything before, so it was super quick. Waiting until the next day to ply it was torture. Here's a bobbin of the single-ply.
I'm going to skip to pictures of the finished product, because all of the bobbin pictures are blurry, too.
I thought the sunlight would help with the camera's crankiness. Usually it tells me there isn't enough light to focus. Of course, it threw everything into sharp relief.
Here's the yarn dragged out of the sunlight. It's between 6 and 7 wraps per inch. Superbulky. I wound up with 80 yards and I'm considering making more. I'm trying to keep track of everything that goes into the dyeing process so I can recreate if needed. On the other hand, I don't know if I even want to try to replicate this. I'm overwhelmed by how well it came out and I don't think want to know if I can't do it again.
