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01/12/2006

more dyeing adventures

Here is the second batch of roving, before going into the oven:

The colors didn't run, which was great. Unfortunately, my color selection kind of sucked. The pinks and oranges took over in a gross way when I spun them up.



The color is kind of an orange-y peach. I'm not a big fan. This hank is my biggest yet, though - 46 yards. I don't see how I could go any bigger on this spindle, unless I made a lighter weight yarn, which I don't want to do - I had a bit more roving to spin, maybe 5-10 yards worth, but just couldn't deal with it anymore. The spindle was spinning horribly! I'm happier with my spinning, though; it just keeps getting more even.

I think I'm going to hold off on spinning/dyeing the white roving until I get a better choice of kool-aid colors. I'm left right now with reds and orange, and I don't want any more colors like this one. I also want to figure out how to make the yarn have longer spaces of one color. Right now it's looking like a candy cane. I think I can dye appropriately, but I don't want to try with these colors. I also want to work on making some thicker single plyed yarn.

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