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natalie
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making a recipe bookI spent today dyeing. Today was all about reproducible results. I dyed short lengths of yarn with various proportions of different colours and then diluted them several times, testing all the dilutions. What I ended up with was the dyeing equivalent of a Dulux paint mixer machine with all the little cards. All the dyed sections are now mounted on hole punched card like the kind you see in wool shops. Today was a purple and green day.
When I'd done all that I had a sandwich (needed one!) and then this afternoon I chose three of my dyed colours and followed my own recipes to make the new colours.... and it worked perfectly!!! Then I dyed mini hanks of yarn using the three colours in different proportions, thirds, sixths etc. They are all different, some with long sections of a single colour, others with more short sections. What is really interesting is that when the little hanks are twisted up, they look pretty much identical. I made them, and I can't tell the difference between them.
The next bit is the knitting.
I like the unpredictability of spray dyeing, and I know I can make a nice hank of yarn that way, but it's good to know I can now make a particular colour too, when I want to.
Tomorrow will be orange and brown, I think.
natalie
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wellington womble
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That's useful - I'm always making things and not being able to remember what I did (If I'm not careful, I can't remember by the second sock what I changed for the first!)
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sally
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I'm a bit like that to, endlessly changing things, I sometimes have both socks on the go at once if the balls of wool allow for it so I can make any chanegs to both, but sadly I'm not often organised enough to do that consistently 
Well done on the shade cards n, bet they look really pretty too!
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cledry yarner
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I started a book like that for my spinning. I had the sheep details, the wpi, the wheel ratio etc etc. It's got one entry in it 
Well done n, you're much more organised than me.
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natalie
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I just had to, it's one thing having a sock pattern committed to memory, (  ) but quite another trying to remember the proportions of this colour or that once it gets past 50:50.
When OH gets back I'll take a photo of it.
n
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