To dye, perchance to dream

I decided today to dye some cotton yarn a nice taupe color for some dishcloths a co worker asked me to make for her. When she asked me i said "of course i can dye yarn a taupe color."
How could it be.

I bought some white cotton yarn and a bottle of rit dye in taupe.  i put the dye in the big cooking pot on the stove with water. turned on the stove.



I unwound the an entire 4oz skein of lilly's sugar and cream yarn, tied it off and put it in the dye bath.   I watched family guy as i dutifully stirred and agitated my yarn.

here  i'm using my kitchen drawers as a niddy noddy

after family guy was over i watched half of the simpsons and took out my yarn and rinsed it.

This is not taupe. This is an evil weird redish cream color masquerading as taupe.
who invented taupe anyway.  i can save this skein. i can over dye it with the cranberry color she wants and no one will be the wiser.

ok now i have taken out my second skein of white yarn and will try again. i will only dye this skein a third at a time.

pour out some of the dye bath as there was too much dye. add more water.


this looks better but still not quite what i hoped for.


next batch add salt, turn off stove. agitate more. aghhhh this is agitating me more than i'm agitating it.


ok last batch. warm water on stove and turn off burner. agitate let it sit. repeat.


I give up.

I took the first taupe sample, the one thats too dark, to work to show the lady and she loves it.

I will dye the cranberry next week.