{"id":1659,"date":"2014-10-22T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:52:55","slug":"new-dyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"New Dyes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo<\/a>Last night was my first adventure into Procion Dyes. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve been excited to try these (new to me) dyes that will give me brighter and bolder colors, but I have been trying to restrain myself until I felt like I had other things organized around the thread dyeing, (a proper dyeing space, a organized system for keeping all my threads straight both before and after they’ve been dye, a better system for labeling my threads, a way of tracking dye lots, etc…) \u00c2\u00a0I can’t say that I’ve gotten everything figured out, but I had some custom requests for colors I just couldn’t do with my set of over-the-counter basic dyes so I decided it was time to pull out the Procion and soda ash and starting doing some more serious dye-chemistry.<\/p>\n

Here’s the extent of what I played around with. \u00c2\u00a0Not much, I know, but it’s a start. \u00c2\u00a0The bright yellow and the dark blue were the color requests. \u00c2\u00a0The blue and purple variegates were just me playing around with mixing dyes.<\/p>\n

I bought another 7 cones of thread that arrived last week, so I’ll be focused in the next two weeks on winding those up. \u00c2\u00a0After last night’s success, I’m also ordering a fuller set of colors in the new dyes. \u00c2\u00a0By the time the threads are ready to go I’ll be playing around with the new colors.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to switch over completely, I still really like the soft blends I’m getting with my original dyes, but I’ll probably be a little more hesitant about restocking the lesser used colors when I run out of them. \u00c2\u00a0Over time I’ll get better with the Procions and I think I’ll be able to repeat those soft blends as well.<\/p>\n

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