Weekend dyeing
I had a wonderful day at the weekend. I spent the entire day in the back garden with my dyeing gear and my burco . The weather was gorgeous and it was really good to be out in the garden which I haven't done much this year. It's my first go at handpainting yarns and I made a complete and thorough mess even though I had my gloves and apron I seemed to have more dye on me than the yarn did! I dyed 3 lots of merino sock yarn (or at least I think it is as it wasn't labelled and from a bargain bin on the bluefaced.com stall) The yarn turned out like I wanted but I had a few problems with the fleece. I did something wrong somewhere because the pale greeny one was meant to be bright blue so it either needed an extra wash before hand or I didn't put enough citric acid in. The purple is wensleydale and silk and turned out as intended though.