Pomegranate Thread

Now that the holidays are over and I’m feeling all moved and settled in Seattle I’m finding a bit more time to update here.  I’ve been busy with a bunch of different tatting projects though, so I’ve got a lot to get caught up on.  One of the things I did before leaving San Diego was to try dyeing thread with pomegranates.  I had about six that I was cutting up to get the seeds out and I use the method of putting them into water to keep them from squirting juice everywhere.  To dye the thread I just threw the skein in with the pomegranates and let it soak while I work on separating the seeds.  Every now and again I took the thread out and rolled it around on the cutting board some whenever there was a little pool of juice from cutting.  I was actually going for a more spotted look and this seem to be working.  I had a beautiful dark pink-red and was pretty excited about it until I finished seeding the pomegranates and rinsed out the thread.  I was totally surprised with what I ended up with.

It’s sort of a light gray-ish, blue-ish pink.  Not a bad color, just not at allwhat I was expecting.  I was a bit disappointed because the color that it has started with before I went to wash it is one of my favorite colors, but I’ve wound this one up on a little spool and have added it to my bag of experiments.

I have 9 or 10 more balls of DMC size 20 “white” thread.   I put that in quotations because let’s admit it… DMC white isn’t actually very white.  I haven’t found any really white-white threads except for Lizbeth.  I plan on dying all of the DMC white that I have so

I’ve started winding up 50 yard, ready-to-dye skeins and am keeping them handy whenever I feel like dyeing some.  I wound a couple before I left San Diego and still have those 9-10 more to go, so lots of dyeing in my future.  Right now as far as dye goes I only have that blue that I used before and a yellow, but I look forward to trying out some other new colors.  Eventually maybe I’ll actually figure out how to do a nice pomegranate color.

January 9, 2012 · Filed under Hand Dyed Thread

2 Comments »

  1. Eliz aka tatknot Said,

    January 9, 2012 @ 5:52 pm

    I look forward to following your dye explorations. It is an art that interests me, but not enough to try it myself yet. Meanwhile, I enjoy the fruit of others’ labor. Happy tatting!

  2. admin Said,

    January 9, 2012 @ 6:50 pm

    Thanks Eliz! I’m looking forward to playing around with it some more. It has certainly given me even more respect for those who make the HDT I love like Krystledawne and Lady Shuttlemaker. I can’t imagine trying to match the colors like they do. Not just from batch to batch but just from skein to skein. I could barely replicate anything close to the previous skeins. It works for me, because I’m not really trying to get anything in particular so I don’t mind if they don’t look the same, but it really impresses me that they are able to do it.

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