Glow-Up - Idunn
What's a glow-up you say? According to Collins dictionary "phrasal verb. If you say that someone glows up, you mean that they become more mature, confident, and attractive"
If you have ever been on Buzzfeed and seen their posts about people's glow-up you know what I mean, going from the awkward teen stage to ones confident adult self. So I thought I'd do the same for my dye projects to show their progress from being an "awkward" ball of white thread, till they get dyed and then finally made into a crochet doily.
So here's my first post, I present to you Glow-Up Edition:
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| Such humble beginnings |
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| Original color pallet sketch |
My recipe for the colors used are as follows, using Jacquard Fiber Reactive procion mx dye in the colors fuchsia, peach and emerald. Fuchsia stock solution = 3% DOS with 2.5gms dye in 100ml water, used 10ml here. Peach stock solution = 5% DOS with 5gms dye in 100ml water, but to make it less orange I diluted 5ml of stock solution in 20ml of water and used that 25ml here. Emerald stock solution = 5% DOS with 5gms dye in 100ml water, used 35ml here.
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| And then a lovely dye job in fuchsia, peach and emerald green |
All dried and wound up into a ball for use
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| All wound up and ready to be crocheted |
After being crocheted into Idunn pattern, was unhappy with how much white the center came out with originally so I decided to just dye it fuchsia again and next time i won't make the first part of the ball so tight so that the first color penetrates more deeply.
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| Little white spots left over from winding the ball too tight originally |
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| Spot treated with soda ash water in the center then spot dyed with some more fuchsia |
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| Left to batch overnight in a bag |
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| Post rinse, I rinsed very carefully just the center to make sure there was no run off before laying flat to dry on paper towels |
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| And the finale after being blocked again, so lovely |
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| I'm ready for my close up! |
And there she is folks, after 2 dye jobs she's all Glown-Up!
