the blues...

[in an effort to clear up the several thousand photos i've taken in the past few months, i am (hopefully) going to post a series of entries of recent (mostly knitted) projects.]

i did a marathon amount of dyeing earlier this year, mostly of mill-spun yarns, using a combination of commercial acid dyes and home-sourced natural dyes.  the challenge comes in turning all of that into useful objects.  honestly, i'd be perfectly content to mount them on a wall where i can stare in awe at the interplay of colors, but (apparently) i can't justify making any more fiber purchases unless i reduce the stash a bit.  so, here goes...

 

it all began with a mill-spun combo of wool, alpaca, and silk which i kettle-dyed Caribbean Blue (foreground, above) using Dharma Acid Dyes.  this was the single-most frustrating color ever, and i gave up when there was still dye bleeding after the twentieth rinse.  my wardrobe consists of an array of blacks and greys, so this was a challenge... which i (partially) overcame by striping it with a dark blue (Azul Profundo, to be precise) kettle-dyed, semi-solid yarn by Malabrigo (background, above).

the rose/rouge pattern was written for a lighter-weight yarn, so it took a bit of mathemagic to make it work... but it worked, and i crafted a totally sweet (short-sleeve) sweater....

for moi!!!

as a total aside... i would like to add that the reason why people with cats take so many photos of their cats sitting on random stuff is because it is near impossible to get a photo of your stuff without a cat getting in the way.

i said, "get off my sweater", and she did this...

i give up.