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I dyed a skein of sock wool with Procion and vinegar for my Dye-O-Rama pal. I wanted to use all the colors and I wanted a good test of them so I mixed them up fresh. I found the colors were very true and bright. I wanted to test all the colors so I dyed a complete color wheel, but to make it more interesting I thought of a evening sky, clear after a storm with a rainbow. I wound one very long skein out of Wool2Dye4 Kona superwash fingering with only a few tangles and then tied off one yard sections for the rainbow. The rest I tied off at intervals to make some stars. I put the skein on a piece of plastic wrap after soaking in a 50% vinegar solution. I squeezed the dye on in sections, trying my best to shade it. The long sky portion I shaded from purple through cobalt to turquiose. I microwaved the entire package in my old “dye only” microwave and let it cool. almost all the dye was absorbed and only a little turquiose bled into the wash water (consistant with cotton and silk dyeing). The yarn is a little bright, bordering on lurid, but my pal likes it bright. Or did, as it turns out! She dropped out and I have a new pal who may not be the lurid type. Also my stars look more like dye flaws than stars. I may dye another skein for my pal, or maybe redye this one to tone it down a bit.

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