Sunday, July 1, 2007

Dark Chocolate Brown Sweater

Well, I guess you could say I was somewhat successful. The spot is gone. But the color didn't strike evenly so it's sort of splotchy all over. I took a couple of photos while still wet, and I'm going to wait until it is dry before I decide whether to do another dye run. At this point, it's not ugly. It actually looks sort of space dyed. Too bad the color wasn't even, because it's really a nice combination of burgundy and dark brown. Since I have some dye powder left, I may use it after I spin up some red llama and dye it at about 50% to see if I get that pretty burgundy again. Playing with color is so much fun. Sometimes you get what you planned for, sometimes it's a surprise!

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ARRGGHH!!!

It's still raining and yukky so I decided to work on Jane's sweater again. After spending the morning treating it with Thiox to remove the color, all I managed to do was get it back to the original color. Which means...it must have been knitted with some of Jane's reddish-brown llama yarn and the stain was something that actually bleached the color from the llama. As you can see from the picture below, it looks just like when I got it.
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So now I'm dyeing it a dark chocolate brown to see if that's going to cover it up. It looks like it may have worked (I'm waiting on the dye bath to cool so I can rinse and see what I've got). My fingers are crossed and I'll post a picture tonight or tomorrow.