In some ways, the fleece from hell, not surprising as it came from a crankey little Suffolk cross ewe (who is also a great mother it has to be said). She looks like hell, at first glance her fleece looks like hell - but on further inspection it is fine and soft and I earmarked it for a low-twist single for lace knitting.
Took a while to get the spinning right but it paid off in the end with 1000+ m of 16 wri, 4.4 TPI yarn which dyed nicely with Koolaid.
Hank drying after stove-top drying
The lemon-lime part
Dry, ready to ball-wind
On the ball winder
Shale swatch
Why Rocket Flower? Well, the rocket bolted earlier this year and produced lovely purple/mauve,cream flowers on light green stems.
3 comments:
YO! When is it WE get to try some of your yarn?! I adore the colours in this! Please bring to show off next time!
I am very impressed with your whole process. I am not a fan of Kool Aid but the colour combination you achieved is lovely. Do you have any plans for using other dyes?
Hi Janet
I'm learning to treat Kool Aid to like any other coloring agent - i.e. mix colors, dilute etc rather than just follow "1 pac/ounce" e.g. in this case, "grape" was mixed with "black cherry", 1/2 the sections dyed with 1/2 pac/oz and one with 3 pac/oz approx.
I also use Landscape dyes.
Thanks for viewing, Catherine
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