a simple yarn

Okay, repeat after me…’One successful dye-job does not an expert make.’

Because if you ignore that little bit of wisdom, you will be lured into thinking that creating this:

Food colouring dye in cochineal and yellow.Will prevent you from doing this:

Food colouring dye in blue, green and yellow, although I have no idea what that ‘muck-stuck-to-the-bottom-of-my-shoe colour is.How can someone mess up blue, green and yellow? Doesn’t the logic of the colour chart dictate that these three colours are compatible? Obviously not. I can only hope that when it’s spun up, it will have an ‘earthy’ feel, rather than a ‘this-is-the-colour-of-my-face-excuse-me-while-I-vomit’ feel.

So, ditch the blue and take the remaining yellow, that’s accidentally been adulterated with some of the green, use half in the next small batch of fleece. Add a bit more green to the remaining yellow and come out with a respectable chartreuse-appley combo. Actually, I kind of like that, but I highly doubt that I can ever repeat it, so it’ll have to be a ‘one skein’ project…

While I’m feeling lucky, I try blue again (with fear and trepidation, mind you) mixing it with the colour-of-the-day cochineal.

So, three-out-of-four is not a shabby dye record, but once again, repeat after me, ‘One (fairly) successful dye-job does not an expert make.’