hibernation occupation
Dec. 1st, 2012 16:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhawhile the paramour was in vegas for a conference, i could commandeer the kitchen without interfering with the important task of food preparation. so i decided i'd do some dyeing of fibre and wool yarn.
i used jacquard acid dyes in 601 sun yellow, 620 hot fuschia, and 624 turquoise, which i had picked out a few years ago as the brightest primaries i could see from the colour swatches. i never dyed with them then because some other monomaniacal interest distracted me.
so this was a test run. i dyed 10g of handspun yarn (60% romney/40% merino) each, trying to get a regular gradation from pale pastel to fully saturated colour. i also had some bits of fleece which i found in a bag tossed away at value village; discarded probably because it had lots of vegetable matter. don't know what breed it is -- a longwool breed for sure, maybe border leicester. i'd love to have a whole fleece of this. the few staples i can pull out easily are beautiful; up to 19 cm (7.5") long, and lovely after washing. i tossed those into whatever dyebath was left when the yarn didn't exhaust it, mixing the colours.
wool staples, washed
weighing 10g of yarn on the kitchen scale
skeining the yarn on my DIY niddy-noddy
tiny skein, awww
primaries dye run, and secondary green
loose fibre in oranges and greens
flicked fibre (i use a dog flicker; don't have any proper combs or cards)
flicked fibre (oh so fluffy!)
nothing is wasted; the leftover fibre after flicking can be used for felting
the gradation was kinda regular in some cases, not so much in others -- i used the same amounts for each sequence (1ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml) but that doesn't quite work; i need to do 0.5ml for a really pale, barely there colour, and 2.5 for an intermediate step. also, it seems to me that the yellow didn't stay well in solution (it might just be too old), and i didn't stir it enough in between). but this is a good start on getting a base line. i'm never going to actually dye quantities with these primaries, but only with mixed colours, and tone those down. i do think i picked the right hues as primaries -- the fuchsia is not what jacquard marks as a primary, but it is considerably brighter than their pick, and i want maximum brightness here.
next time i'll mix all the secondaries (re-doing the green as well, since it wasn't properly mixed this time).
i used jacquard acid dyes in 601 sun yellow, 620 hot fuschia, and 624 turquoise, which i had picked out a few years ago as the brightest primaries i could see from the colour swatches. i never dyed with them then because some other monomaniacal interest distracted me.
so this was a test run. i dyed 10g of handspun yarn (60% romney/40% merino) each, trying to get a regular gradation from pale pastel to fully saturated colour. i also had some bits of fleece which i found in a bag tossed away at value village; discarded probably because it had lots of vegetable matter. don't know what breed it is -- a longwool breed for sure, maybe border leicester. i'd love to have a whole fleece of this. the few staples i can pull out easily are beautiful; up to 19 cm (7.5") long, and lovely after washing. i tossed those into whatever dyebath was left when the yarn didn't exhaust it, mixing the colours.
wool staples, washed
weighing 10g of yarn on the kitchen scale
skeining the yarn on my DIY niddy-noddy
tiny skein, awww
primaries dye run, and secondary green
loose fibre in oranges and greens
flicked fibre (i use a dog flicker; don't have any proper combs or cards)
flicked fibre (oh so fluffy!)
nothing is wasted; the leftover fibre after flicking can be used for felting
the gradation was kinda regular in some cases, not so much in others -- i used the same amounts for each sequence (1ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml) but that doesn't quite work; i need to do 0.5ml for a really pale, barely there colour, and 2.5 for an intermediate step. also, it seems to me that the yellow didn't stay well in solution (it might just be too old), and i didn't stir it enough in between). but this is a good start on getting a base line. i'm never going to actually dye quantities with these primaries, but only with mixed colours, and tone those down. i do think i picked the right hues as primaries -- the fuchsia is not what jacquard marks as a primary, but it is considerably brighter than their pick, and i want maximum brightness here.
next time i'll mix all the secondaries (re-doing the green as well, since it wasn't properly mixed this time).
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on 2012-12-02 21:24 (UTC)a. Pretty pictures!
b. You have invented best tongue twister ever:
the leftover fibre after flicking can be used for felting