{"id":562,"date":"2005-10-23T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2005-10-23T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T16:35:00","slug":"dyeing-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, some of the knit crew gathered on our back patio &#038; began a very exciting adventure: hand-dyeing our own yarn.  It was blustery cold, and at times, raining. So we had some outside circumstances contributing some challenges! But Kristin was an awesome teacher, and we learned a ton on how to do the dyeing, the different processes, and all the steps to creating our own versions of the $30 skeins you buy in the store!<\/p>\n<p>My focus was on dyeing sock yarn &#8211; I have some merino worsted, as well, but I think I&#8217;m going to wait for another day. I wanted to learn &#038; experiment, and see what might work, and what might result in something dreadful, before I ventured in to creating wool for an entire sweater. (Kudos to the ladies who jumped in with both feet, though! They&#8217;ll be knitting sweaters soon!)  I&#8217;m happy to say that I absolutely love each skein I dyed, for they are each very different, but were really fun in their own ways.  I have four complete skeins, with a fifth partially-dyed &#038; needing more done to it &#8211; it can wait until next time. We used acid dyes, and didn&#8217;t do a whole lot of mixing\/experimenting with shades, since we had a nice assortment to start with.  The sock yarn also can be used for lacey-type scarves, and one or two might become that, instead of footwear.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the skeins! They are all on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/\">Flickr<\/a> page as well.<\/p>\n<p>My first skein, definitely looking a lot like the landscape around us right now!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/55218401\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/25\/55218401_56ae4bb89e.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Autumnal Yarn\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beth is a saint, for she created the enormous skeins for self-striping sock yarn. Purple, Orange &#038; Red. Pippi Longstocking, get out of my way.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/55218355\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/32\/55218355_3894c46ca9.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Self-Striping Sock Yarn\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love these colors&#8230;they are what I gravitate towards. I&#8217;d like them a bit brighter, but again, for a first-time out-of-the-box adventure, I&#8217;m happy!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/55218464\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/55218464_a2b061def3.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Jen's Laces\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last skein, half-immersion (purple), half-handpaint. Jungle Fever, baby!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/55218520\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/30\/55218520_cb8788b02b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Crazy Yarn\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, after 5 or so hours of dyeing, eating, tidying up, etc., I collapsed &#038; took one of those naps that feel like you&#8217;ve been professionally sedated &#038; when the phone rang &#038; woke me up, I had no idea 1. where I was, 2. what day it was, &#038; 3. what time it was. Later, when I went to bed, I even beat James to the Land of Nod, and he almost always falls asleep before I do. Play dates tucker me out!  And yet I&#8217;m already looking forward to doing it again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, some of the knit crew gathered on our back patio &#038; began a very exciting adventure: hand-dyeing our own yarn. It was blustery cold, and at times, raining. So we had some outside circumstances contributing some challenges! But Kristin was an awesome teacher, and we learned a ton on how to do the dyeing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}