Comments on: I am getting madder

By: julia fc

julia fc — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:25:31 +0000

It’s uncanny how you always seem to anticipate what is troubling my sleep recently. I’ve been growing japanese indigo and calendula in my herb garden this year for such experiements. I have seen the earth hues around at fests: fascinating. Thanks, June. Oh, and also thanks for understanding exactly what I meant by uneven spinning: grist eludes many people. Cheers

By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:10:44 +0000

talk about crazy PC action there. Who cares if you refer to flesh tone stuff? There are all kinds of flesh tones (mine happens to be carrot-y since I am overdosing on self-tanner). You might as well be descriptive. Would it be more better if you said you wanted a chocolate brown color instead of a flesh tone to be more PC? Or maybe a nice green banana color? Or maybe bright blue?…. don’t get me started. I happen to like that peach color and wonder if we can call the Crayola people and ask if they can have take the same recipe and call it “healthy fleshtone white person.” What up?

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:45:55 +0000

I’m glad you finally tried out the dyes! And your results are both beautiful! Hopefully some day I’ll get around to trying them too.

By: Judy Jackson

Judy Jackson — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:05:59 +0000

Hi June,

You can also leave your wool in the dyebath to let it cool overnight or even leave it in a warm place for a month or more and get deeper colors. Perfect for those of us who really don’t feel like rinsing 8 times.

By: Carolyn B.

Carolyn B. — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:37:32 +0000

Oops, that should be “offensensitivity” –

By: Carolyn B.

Carolyn B. — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:32:51 +0000

Loved reading about your dye experiments. Both batches are lovely, too.

Re the “flesh tones” gripes: Feh. I guess they have a point, but this kind of crankiness to innocent remarks always make me think of a mocking Bloom County cartoon that defined a new word: Offensensivity. (Offense + sensitivity).

Cheers – Carolyn B.

By: Robbyn

Robbyn — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:09:55 +0000

What a great experiment! Thanks so much for detailing it for us and your colors are wonderful, the peach pale and delicate and the coral/orane sharp and feisty!

Yeah, I remember the hoo-raw about the “flesh colored” yarn. You have to take these people with a LARGE grain of salt. Their color perception is severely hampered on account of their having their heads up their butts.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:43:20 +0000

Well, you’re in for it now. Once you start natural dyeing, things are never the same again. You can’t walk out your front door or drive down the road without looking at some plant you have never dyed with before and thinking, “Hmm, I wonder what color you could get with that?” And then there is the experimentation, because some flower dyes, when modified with ammonia (or some other modifier) will actually shift colors! You’re doomed, I tell ya, doomed! I love dyeing with chemical dyes because of the preciseness of it, and I love natural dyes because you never know what is going to happen.

Here is a great page on mordants. http://www.griffindyeworks.com/mordents_mods_list.htm Just reading that page is an education into itself.

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:15:03 +0000

The flesh tone yarn looks beautiful. That’s so funny about the Knitlist. They are so sensitive! I was on the Knitlist for a short time when I started knitting. Its much better out here in blogland!

By: claudia

claudia — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:03:46 +0000

Not that more orange is a bad thing…

;-)