Another Dyeing and Spinning Experiment

I was playing around with some left-over blue and green dyes one day and decided to dye up what I have come to call a 'water color' motif.  I dyed one blue, one green and then one with the left over blue and green mixed together.  Each roving was done with a dilution sequence - I dyed a section with the darkest solution, diluted that by half, dyed another section... diluted that by half... and so on.  The results: 

I then spun up each of the three colors as very thin singles and plied all three together.  Because all three had a multitude of different shades, the combinations were different throughout the whole yarn.

I used this yarn in a few different projects:

I really can not remember what this one was for.  It may have just been a pattern test and/or sampler to see how the yarn looked knitted up.  The color changes were really neat over the whole piece.








The next experiment was to try a new pattern for toe socks.  I ended up using my prototype as a spinning sock.  I had worn some boots to a craft show where I ended up doing spinning exhibitions.  I had planned to just take the boot off,  but it was kind of cold, so this prototype actually came in handy.  I loved the striping,  but because the yarn was never the same I could never get a matching set.

My favorite use for this yarn ended up being a shawl:

The above was my second try... this was the first.  I actually really liked the dragon scale look to it.  I would have kept it that way if I had more yarn, but as it was, the shawl was too small.  I frogged the first try and re-knit it using larger needles.  I do like how it turned out.  Number two on my dye to-do list is to re-make this yarn and make another shawl... maybe two, one in leaf and one in dragon-scale  :)

I may try the same dye/spin pattern with some reds, yellow and orange.