Color Mixing Jacquard Primaries, with Bonus Math Fail!

Now that I’ve taken the plunge into commercial acid dyes, I’m building a color swatch catalog that I can reference for dyeing yarn a specific shade. That means color mixing exercises — starting with triangle dyeing. I’m going to need to do this a bunch of times — partly because… Continue reading →

We Grew Radishes! So I Painted Them

Radishes have been one of my favorite vegetables since I was a kid. I love the spicy flavor — which, pro tip if you have to eat low FODMAP like me, makes a great substitute for onions. (*sigh* I miss red onions.) When we put in two raised bed gardens… Continue reading →

Breaking Wilton’s Delphinium Blue

When we dyed our Sparkly Iceberg yarn, we were surprised to have some pink on the yarn mop. Well, come to find out (thanks to a YouTube commenter), Delphinium Blue is a purpley blue that breaks! Of course, we had to go back and try breaking it on purpose. Our… Continue reading →