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RE: Bright and woolly experiments
I love the colours, so imaginative! They are all gorgeous, but I especially like the green. I'm not sure why the colour hasn't fixed. When I had a look around the internet, steam/heat seems to be the answer. As the yarn is wound now, perhaps make your garment and then try rinsing gently and/or another baking in the oven?
I have some yellow linen yarn - the height of fashion five years ago - and a half-finished jacket. Perhaps I shall unravel (well, I shall unravel, for sure) and try some new colour mixes. The speckles sound interesting.
Lovely to have your imagination and inspiration on needleworkmonday! 😘
I have written with a fiber friend from Instagram and she seems to have also problems to set blue hues and has encountered commercial blue wool which stained her hands. I think I will investigate if blue is a problem for acid dyes.
And I think I will follow your advice and will re-set the colours after knitting. But as I have so many unfinished projects (grooooaaan) this has to wait a bit.
And with the linen you need a different technique, acid dye only works for protein fibres (or so I have read)
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall02/FEATdyedwool.html
But beware, if you have not dyed yarn before... I find it highly addictive 😱💕 and speckles are still on my high priority list. Perhaps you will try this for the linen yarn?
First ... I have to find the yarn ... :)
Or you could always buy this wonderful superwash merino wool (someday I will buy there!!!!)
https://www.supergarne.com/en/Wool+for+dyeing/
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