{"id":1003,"date":"2012-01-09T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2012-03-29T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T05:11:06","slug":"pomegranate-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranate Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been busy with a bunch of different tatting projects though, so I’ve got a lot to get caught up on. \u00c2\u00a0One of the things I did before leaving San Diego was to try dyeing thread with pomegranates. \u00c2\u00a0I 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. \u00c2\u00a0To dye the thread I just threw the skein in with the pomegranates and let it soak while I work on separating the seeds. \u00c2\u00a0Every 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. \u00c2\u00a0I was actually going for a more spotted look and this seem to be working. \u00c2\u00a0I had a beautiful dark pink-red and was pretty excited about it until I finished seeding the pomegranates and rinsed out the thread. \u00c2\u00a0I was totally surprised with what I ended up with.<\/p>\n

It’s sort of a light gray-ish, blue-ish pink. \u00c2\u00a0Not a bad color, just not at allwhat I was expecting. \u00c2\u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

I have 9 or 10 more balls of DMC size 20 “white” thread. \u00c2\u00a0 I put that in quotations because let’s admit it… DMC white isn’t actually very white. \u00c2\u00a0I haven’t found any really white-white threads except for Lizbeth. \u00c2\u00a0I plan on dying all of the DMC white that I have so<\/p>\n

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I’ve started winding up 50 yard, ready-to-dye skeins and am keeping them handy whenever\u00c2\u00a0I feel like dyeing some. \u00c2\u00a0I wound a couple before I left San Diego and still have those 9-10 more to go, so\u00c2\u00a0lots of dyeing in my future. \u00c2\u00a0Right 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. \u00c2\u00a0Eventually maybe I’ll actually figure out how to do a nice pomegranate color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been busy with a bunch of different tatting projects though, so I’ve got a lot to get caught up on. \u00c2\u00a0One of the things I did before leaving San Diego […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hand-dyed-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}