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How to kill a gansy
Dye it!
Who would have thunk, that dying a garment could be that much harder than dying skeins of yarn? Aaron |
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Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some
expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one. I am wearing it now. The day is unseasonably cool, and my office is cold. It is the warmest sweater I own, even if it does look like it has dark perspiration stains under the arms. Besides, after a few days of fishing, and getting smeared with fish gore, nobody will notice the slightly darker areas under the arms. Aaron "Madelaine" wrote in message ... wrote: Dye it! Who would have thunk, that dying a garment could be that much harder than dying skeins of yarn? Aaron My condolences. I recently killed a favorite blouse I was trying to save with a too hasty attempt at tea dying. On the good side, it was to be practice for dying a coffee-stained linen content Ralph Lauren sweater that I love. I will eventually dye the sweater, but not with tea. Madelaine |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:34:01 GMT, wrote:
Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one. I have a 7-gallon kettle for dyelotting handspun in sweater-sized quantities. Send me the sweater and tell me what color you want (walnut-husk brown, maybe brightened a bit with an alum mordant?) and I'll see what I can do with it. |
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Wooly,
Thanks, but I need the practice : ) If it were a "dress" sweater, it would be a problem and I would take you up on your offer. But, this is my fishing and gardening sweater. I have actually reoiled it and am wearing it right now. As soon as it starts raining, I will head out the door to see if it dries faster as navy sweater rather than as a white sweater. Aaron "WoolyGooly" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:34:01 GMT, wrote: Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one. I have a 7-gallon kettle for dyelotting handspun in sweater-sized quantities. Send me the sweater and tell me what color you want (walnut-husk brown, maybe brightened a bit with an alum mordant?) and I'll see what I can do with it. |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:26:37 -0700, wrote:
raining, I will head out the door to see if it dries faster as navy sweater rather than as a white sweater. Har, I missed that you had already dyed it I prefer to dye the YARN and not the GARMENT! |
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On Apr 20, 12:35 pm, WoolyGooly wrote:
I prefer to dye the YARN and not the GARMENT! I prefer to dye the fibre and not the yarn - that way I can card a number of shades together to get a colour with depth and movement. |
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skrev i melding . net... Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one. I am wearing it now. The day is unseasonably cool, and my office is cold. It is the warmest sweater I own, even if it does look like it has dark perspiration stains under the arms. Besides, after a few days of fishing, and getting smeared with fish gore, nobody will notice the slightly darker areas under the arms. Aaron You have got your PERSONAL fishing sweather, Aron! You will love it and be very sorry the day you HAVE TO replace it! You should have seen mine!! Knitted/ ribbed in double left over wool yarn in all coloures and types, one of the threads all through is grey, Norwegian rag sock yarn. No superwash in it at all. There are no holes, it's not "worn", and will never be....it is too solid, except around the wrists, where it's mended with the wool I just had for hand. And it is warm! And it is for fishing!!! AND I love it! AUD :-) |
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The idea was to test the warmth of the garment in white and then in navy.
Aaron "WoolyGooly" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:26:37 -0700, wrote: raining, I will head out the door to see if it dries faster as navy sweater rather than as a white sweater. Har, I missed that you had already dyed it I prefer to dye the YARN and not the GARMENT! |
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I started another gansey last night from a very soft Scottish yarn worked
double. On my gansey needles, that gives me only 6spi so it should go pretty fast, but there are 10 stitch panels each of which have cables and diamonds --so may go slow. I am hoping that the gansey will go *much* faster than the swatch (8.3 spm : - (( If not, there will be sleepless nights in June. Aaron "Aud" wrote in message ... skrev i melding . net... Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one. I am wearing it now. The day is unseasonably cool, and my office is cold. It is the warmest sweater I own, even if it does look like it has dark perspiration stains under the arms. Besides, after a few days of fishing, and getting smeared with fish gore, nobody will notice the slightly darker areas under the arms. Aaron You have got your PERSONAL fishing sweather, Aron! You will love it and be very sorry the day you HAVE TO replace it! You should have seen mine!! Knitted/ ribbed in double left over wool yarn in all coloures and types, one of the threads all through is grey, Norwegian rag sock yarn. No superwash in it at all. There are no holes, it's not "worn", and will never be....it is too solid, except around the wrists, where it's mended with the wool I just had for hand. And it is warm! And it is for fishing!!! AND I love it! AUD :-) |
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