Indigo Pictures (since it is blue Tuesday and all)

In an effort to check another item off the list, I thought I'd rinse out the yarn and roving from the indigo dyeing class. . . finally.  Besides -- it's blue Tuesday so I guess it was meant to be. 

This stuff was really difficult to photograph.  I think the photo above is a pretty good representation, but I had to mess around with the saturation a bit.  Look at the attempts:

Flash, no flash, by the sunny window, away from window -- it went on and on until my batteries died.  Sheesh.

At any rate, these are pictures of three different dyed fibers: light wool, greyish wool and light BFL roving.  I took this picture  (these many pictures) before I rinsed them out for the first time ever after having died them 2 1/2 weeks ago.  I was hoping to document any color change. 

Upon rinsing, the light yarn and roving gave up pretty much no dye.  The super dark yarn gave up a bit though.  As I type they are soaking in a warm, lovely scented bath:

Tomorrow the batteries should be fully charged and the yarn and roving should be relatively dry.  Can the nice dark blue skein retain it's lovely color?  Only time will tell.

Comments

[Chris]

*cue suspenseful music*

[Jess]

Pretty pretty! I love indigo-dyed things.

Can't wait to see how they turn out!

[Maggie]

I love the shades of blue indigo produces. One day I'm going to give this a try myself.