Posted by Peg in South Carolina
There are a couple of shades I would still like to try……..
But I’m not going to.
The whitish areas on some of the samples are areas that the dye didn’t reach. These were places I had a tie and had tied it a bit too tight. This is the kind of thing I watch carefully to avoid when I do the final dyeing; but for the samples, it doesn’t really matter.
There is one real mistake, a mistake which shows me that I missed an initial sampling that should have been done. The orange on the right card is supposed to be red……….. I didn’t sample it because the recipe I used was from another sample which had turned out a beautifully brilliant scarlet….. Sigh……..
What I ought to do is to do the samples on that card all over again. Maybe I’ll just use plain old SAB Scarlet instead of a recipe concoction.
I’ll sleep on it. For the whole weekend. I mean three nights! Just in case anyone thinks I might be going into hibernation…..
“Done with Dye Sampling?“ was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on October 16, 2009. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.
4 comments:
I love the photo of your dye samples, gorgeous colours. For myself, I like the orange with the greens. It is odd though that your recipe for scarlet came out this shade. I haven't done much dyeing yet.
Glad you will be redoing the orange-when looking at the whole collection, it is too jarring a contrast for me.
I love your organisation and sampling - so inspiring... note to shani - must do better !!
thanks for leading the way..
shani
Dorothy, I like the orange, too, but it won't work in the overall scheme I have planned. As for the recipe, clearly someone made an error---who, moi????!
Ah, Delighted Hands, you'll me interested to know that I wrote my response to Dorothy before I read your comment..........
Thank you, Shani.
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