Way back when, I used to hand dye fabrics. You see, I'm also a quilter and what quilter doesn't love unique fabric? Unfortunately, I sold all of our fabric dyes last year or I probably would have tried something.
I used to do a 6-step color progression with our fabrics. Oh, people loved buying those because most other dyers only did 5-step color progressions. Our 6th step was unique. Unique is good. However, that 6th step also made it more "natural" and the steps between colors were smaller. If I still had those dyes, I would get myself some pure white, all natural fiber yarn and try to put that 6-step color progression into a single skein of yarn. What would it do? What would it look like? Could it be done?
In my opinion, this is dangerous talk. Why? Because I might be tempted to buy dyes again solely to try it out. That could be an expensive proposition. What if it didn't work out? And what colors would I try anyway? Though, I think I could get away with just a small amount of dye and soda ash. Ut oh. Ssshh. This is crazy talk. Too bad I know where I can get a starter dye kit for a reasonable amount of money... I might have to try it just to be difficult.
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