I have a huge pile of freshly dyed wool! I think I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend...lots of spinning. And probably even more gazing at my wool with a smile on my face.
I showed the first batch of roving on Sunday; here's the rest:
The three bits on the left were microwave-dyed; the fourth was kettle-dyed blue; the two on the right started out as grey-brown wool blend.
I think this shows the blueishness of the kettle-dyed stuff a bit better. Anyway, it's a lovely greyish blue.
Now, the yarn. I bought two half-pound skeins of Henry's Attic kid mohair specifically for dye-day. One of them is now yellow and orange and brownish-orangey:
This may just turn into an Icarus shawl as soon as it gets sufficiently cool and dry to deal with mohair.
The other skein was supposed to be chocolate brown with bits of yellow.
That's basically what it is (the yellow bits are hiding from the camera), but the brown came out a little purplier than I wanted, so I'm going to let it sit for a while and think about what to do with it.
And...I overdyed the stuff I posted about last week:
Much better.
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