When you fall off a horse, you’re supposed to get right back on it, aren’t you?  So, I did and my next batch of dyeing came out much, much better.

Learning from my previous mistake (a sign of genius, that), I decided to ditch the ambitious cross-colourwheel combinations and go for some colours that sit more side-by-side on the wheel.  I chose as my inspiration a beautiful orange-pink-red-purple yarn that I’d bought at the Great Lakes Fibre Show and set off to the dig the crockpots out from all the moving boxes in the garage.

The inspiration:

It’s a little hard to replicate colours like this using Kool-Aid but, this time, the result was a lot more to my liking, even if it did come out nothing like I’d hoped.  The orange was still to far too gaudy, the purple much deeper than I meant it to be, I didn’t let the pink run over the other colours as much as I should, and there’s something very high school team colours-ish about it.  And yet… it looks ok.   I don’t think anyone would come running up to it from across a crowded room, overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the colour combination, but I suspect it might just spin up surprisingly nicely.

The result:

And I’m looking forward to spinning this up, because this time, I dyed with some BFL roving that is going to slip through my fingers with no arguments at all.  Joy!  What do you think, a thick-and-thin slub yarn?