Dyeapalooza: Dye Sample Hexies

Rebecca

Nov 4

This is an addendum to all the posts from this summer - I have finally finished knitting all the dye samples into hexies. The best way to learn about your handspun is always by using it, so this is the real completion of the dyeing experiments. Rather than amend those colourway posts, I'm going to post all the hexies right here, and you can link back and forth between the individual posts if you're interested.

These were all knit using the "Skep" pattern by Kate Davies. However, I didn't have a plan for these samples when I spun them, and they are more fingering than DK weight, and so do not match the neutral framing yarn or the combo spun samples. I was flexible: All of these were knit flat. Many of them were knit inside-out, with my own rethinking of the pattern. They were knit at two different gauges. That's all I'm comfortable saying without disclosing details of the published pattern.

The below also reflects the final numbering system I landed on for keeping all this stuff organized. That is not reflected in the original posts, and is particularly irritating in the split complement/complement post. If anyone actually cares, I'll fix it, but I'm guessing you can manage.

Monochrome

Original post

Yellow

2. Yellow-Orange

3. Orange

4. Red-Orange

5. Red

6. Red-Violet

7. Violet

8. Blue-Violet

9. Blue

10. Blue-Green

11. Green

12. Yellow-Green

Analogous

Original post 1

13. Pale Yellow to Red-Orange

14. Dull Yellow-Orange to Red

15. Intense Orange to Red-Violet

16. Dark Red-Orange to Violet

17. Pale Red to Blue-Violet

18. Dull Red-Violet to Blue

19. Intense Violet to Blue-Green

20. Dark Blue-Violet to Green

21. Pale Blue to Yellow-Green

22. Dull Blue-Green to Yellow

23. Intense Green to Yellow-Orange

24. Dark Yellow-Green to Orange

Original post 2

25. Blue to Violet

26. Blue to Green

27. Red to Orange

Complement

Original post - Please note that for this and all following samples, I spun two samples: one straight off the braid, and one combed to completely blend. These were knit together intarsia-style. Where there was significantly more of one sample than the other, I either changed the ratio of the intarsia, or when I ran out of one, I continued in only the remaining colour.

28. Yellow/Violet - Notable that the blended sample is the most closely coloured sample to the framing taupe yarn.

29. Yellow-Orange/Blue-Violet

30. Orange/Blue

31. Red-Orange/Blue-Green

32. Red/Green - this was the first sample knit, before I landed on intarsia as a better method of combining these into one sample. The combed sample is a small strip along the outside of the combo-spun sample.

33. Red-Violet/Yellow-Green

Split Complement

Original post

34. Yellow / Red-Violet, Blue-Violet

35. Yellow-Orange / Blue, Violet

36. Orange / Blue-Violet, Blue-Green

37. Red-Orange / Blue, Green

38. Red / Blue-Green, Yellow-Green

39. Red-Violet / Yellow, Green

40. Violet / Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green

41. Blue-Violet / Orange, Yellow

42. Blue / Yellow-Orange, Red-Orange

43. Blue-Green / Red, Orange

44. Green / Red-Violet, Red-Orange

45. Yellow-Green / Red, Violet

Triad

Original post

46. Red, Yellow, Blue

47. Orange, Green, Violet

48. Red-Orange, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Green

49. Red-Violet, Blue-Green, Yellow-Orange

Warm & Cool

Original post - The samples I spun from these braids were inexplicably small, and one of each was very small. So I elected to knit each pair into a single hexie, changing proportions so each had a clean section.

50-51: Cools

52-53: Warms

51 Hexies, all done! If you made it this far, I hope you enjoyed the pictures. Pretty soon I'll start a series of posts where I break down all my combo drafts, one at a time, with explanations. This will be a more detailed, more analogue version of what I've been going over as a segment in the Wool Circle for the past several months, mostly for my own records and reflections. Cheers!