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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Bionic on April 27, 2014, 11:22:07 am
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Someone, please help me.
I spent most of last night awake, trying to decide what colour to dye my wool. I am the 'keeper' of our spinning club dyes so most colours should be achieveable.
I know that I want to start my garment with a darker colour at the bottom and graduate in the same colour type upwards. So I will probably only dye 1 skein in each colour.
I could go brown, light brown, fawn, cream
Purple, mauve, lilac, pale lilac
Plum, etc
Jade, etc
Green, etc
Blue, etc
Red, etc
Oh gosh, I just don't know
What are your favourite colours?
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I would go for a green or a blue. Will get pictures of the final decision?
Dans
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I'd go with purple to pale lilac.
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Twit.
You're not making this for us! You need to choose colours you like and that suit you!
When you see a palette of colours, for instance a paint card, which colour draws you? (For me, lavenders, or plums, usually. Sometimes the greens.)
What colours do people always say, "Oh, that colour really suits you!" ? (For me, bright blues and turquoises.)
What mood do you want to create when looking at the garment? What colours evoke that mood? (I'm spinning a 'rose garden' braid at the moment - deep reds and bright reds like rose petals, yellows for stamens, greens for leaves and stalks, some creams to let the deeper colours speak - and I am in the garden on a summer's day as I spin! :))
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I'm usually a red person. The colour suits me (I think) and I always feel happy in that colour.
I have just brought the dyes in from the garage to do a stock take. Perhaps seeing them might give me some ideas.
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Every time I see the sunset I want to dye something in blues, hot and cool peach tones and pale greys.
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I'm usually a red person. The colour suits me (I think) and I always feel happy in that colour.
I have just brought the dyes in from the garage to do a stock take. Perhaps seeing them might give me some ideas.
I was going to suggest you go for something to match your eyes, but maybe not given that you like reds :roflanim:
I love red too, but I also like greens and mauves together - they grade into eachother beautifully.
Years ago in Shetland I saw a lovely graded jumper, starting with black at the bottom and grading up through reds, oranges, to light yellow at the top - sort of sunsetty.
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I'm usually a red person. The colour suits me (I think) and I always feel happy in that colour.
I have just brought the dyes in from the garage to do a stock take. Perhaps seeing them might give me some ideas.
I was going to suggest you go for something to match your eyes, but maybe not given that you like reds :roflanim:
I love red too, but I also like greens and mauves together - they grade into eachother beautifully.
Years ago in Shetland I saw a lovely graded jumper, starting with black at the bottom and grading up through reds, oranges, to light yellow at the top - sort of sunsetty.
Or Tequila sunrise ;D ;D
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You should have a go at using natural dyes, it doesn't matter what shades you end up with they always seem to go together ok........ plus it's fun to experiment ;D
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I have some natural dyes here Julie and have used onions skins and things in the past. This time I wanted to go for something more dramatic though.
Still collecting onion skins for the next time though
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The other thing you could do, Sally, is have a look through some patterns on Ravelry - not for the patterns but to see how people use colour and whether anything lights your fire.
If you look at shawl patterns you'll see the whole spectrum!
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I don't get on very well with Ravelry, I find it confusing. Yours is a good idea though so I will see what I can find.
Thanks
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Black !
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Well, it's definitely not going to be black. Sally's suggestion was a good one. I have downloaded a pic I saw on Ravelry and will base my colours on that.
I'm not saying what those colours are yet because I don't know how well I can get a dye to a colour that is in my head.
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Good luck , I'm about to embark on part two of my dyeing adventure. Green and purple are my favourite colours.
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I'm about to embark on part two of my dyeing adventure.
Do tell!
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I bought a big tub of leaf green and also smaller pots of turquoise and magenta and olive green. I have a biggish white fleece I was given and I'm planning some brightly coloured experiments. I washed the fleece a few weeks back so its good to go.
I've also got some beginner yarn that needs some colour and 100g of Texel top to experiment with
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Yum! :yum:
We should have a thread for pics of our dyeings...