Even thought I wasn’t really satisfied with my last batch of dyeing, it taught me lessons nonetheless.  I knew now that the Kool-Aid orange was far too intense for my purposes, and the purple was too deep.  So this time I altered my tactics slightly, and decided to use primary colours to get the shades I wanted.  I dipped one end of the roving in yellow for a while and the other end in blue, and then submerged the whole roving in red.  When I pulled the results out of the crockpot, my heart leapt.

This was more what I had hoped for.  This was beautiful!

I liked it so much that I skeined up some weaving yarn and dyed that as well…