{"id":151,"date":"2011-03-14T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-03-15T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:10:16","slug":"my-lovehate-relationship-with-hand-dyed-yarns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"My love\/hate relationship with hand-dyed yarns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hand-dyed yarns are one of my greatest weaknesses. \u00a0Sundara Yarn and madelinetosh have probably been out to some really lavish dinners on my dime, and as long as they keep feeding my my subtle-hued fiber fascinations, I’m totally okay with that.<\/p>\n

It’s only recently that I’ve been brave enough to use these hand-dyed beauties in garments more expansive than a shawlette or a pair of socks. \u00a0Once you stray into territory that requires more than one skein, hand-dyed yarn becomes like the high-maintenance woman you marry: ever so lovely, but requiring real tact and care to avoid disaster. \u00a0My first forays into hand-dyed sweaters have been so far safe, and I gave real care to alternating skeins on only one of them (and it was striped, so probably wouldn’t have been noticeable by anyone but me anyway).<\/p>\n

But this latest…<\/p>\n

I set aside 4 hanks of madelinetosh pashmina in an incredible color called “cosmos” at the recommendation of my yarn store boss\/friend Alyssa. \u00a0I took home three of them to begin work on a top-down sweater that has the singular distinction of knitting the sleeves before the body of the sweater. \u00a0I broke into the second hank at the start of the second sleeve, and knit like a madwoman, only to begin binding off said sleeve and see…<\/p>\n

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Wow. That is one heck of a color difference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lovely muddled purple-charcoal-teal I had been knitting with, and the “new skein” which is much<\/em> more teal-dominant. \u00a0Crap.<\/p>\n

So now, the choices. \u00a0Do I rip back and try again with the third skein, which is a much closer match, then alternate rows into the body to merge into the teal gradually? \u00a0Or do I just plow on ahead?<\/p>\n

I’m a little torn. \u00a0Since I’ve committed this project (along with the myriad others detailed in the previous post) to my month-long games this go-’round, I’m really trying to finish this sweater as fast as possible. \u00a0Ripping out a huge amount of work for an aesthetic issue is not conducive to fast. \u00a0On the other hand, will I hate the finished product if I can see exactly where the new yarns came into play, or will it work with the overall casual\/artisan feel of the garment?<\/p>\n

Conundrum indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hand-dyed yarns are one of my greatest weaknesses. \u00a0Sundara Yarn and madelinetosh have probably been out to some really lavish dinners on my dime, and as long as they keep feeding my my subtle-hued fiber fascinations, I’m totally okay with that. It’s only recently that I’ve been brave enough to use these hand-dyed beauties in garments more expansive than a shawlette or a pair of socks. \u00a0Once you stray into.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}