How to kill a gansy

My condolences. I recently killed a favorite blouse I was trying to save with a too hasty attempt at tea dying. On the good side, it was to be practice for dying a coffee-stained linen content Ralph Lauren sweater that I love. I will eventually dye the sweater, but not with tea. Madelaine

Easy Come, easy go! After all it is just Fisherman's wool, and not some expensive luxury fiber : D I knit for fun and not for pence. It gives me an excuse to knit another one.

I am wear> > Dye it!

I have a 7-gallon kettle for dyelotting handspun in sweater-sized quantities. Send me the sweater and tell me what color you want (walnut-husk brown, maybe brightened a bit with an alum mordant?) and I'll see what I can do with it.

Wooly, Thanks, but I need the practice : )

If it were a "dress" sweater, it would be a problem and I would take you up on your offer. But, this is my fishing and gardening sweater. I have actually reoiled it and am wearing it right now. As soon as it starts raining, I will head out the door to see if it dries faster as navy sweater rather than as a white sweater. Aaron

Har, I missed that you had already dyed it :D

I prefer to dye the YARN and not the GARMENT!

I prefer to dye the fibre and not the yarn - that way I can card a number of shades together to get a colour with depth and movement. :)

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You have got your PERSONAL fishing sweather, Aron! You will love it and be very sorry the day you HAVE TO replace it! You should have seen mine!! Knitted/ ribbed in double left over wool yarn in all coloures and types, one of the threads all through is grey, Norwegian rag sock yarn. No superwash in it at all. There are no holes, it's not "worn", and will never be....it is too solid, except around the wrists, where it's mended with the wool I just had for hand. And it is warm! And it is for fishing!!! AND I love it! AUD :-)

I started another gansey last night from a very soft Scottish yarn worked double. On my gansey needles, that gives me only 6spi so it should go pretty fast, but there are 10 stitch panels each of which have cables and diamonds --so may go slow. I am hoping that the gansey will go *much* faster than the swatch (8.3 spm : - (( If not, there will be sleepless nights in June.

Aaron

You'll have to do that in a thermally neutral situation then - no cheating by sitting in sunbeams in a navy sweater and calling it "warmer" *g*

The rush to dye was so I could wear it in yesterday's rain storm. And, more rain tomorrow.

Hopefully that will give me the confidence to wear it salmon fishing - and not take backup gear.

Aaron

Oilskins are an acceptable accessory...

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Aaron, It sounds lovely! And I think it always is like that; we start with a swatch, do the first pattern repeat, and think the work will never end. And suddenly we discover that we do the pattern correctly , pretty fast without thinkeng of what we do. I am always surprised over what has happened, but I guess it is what I try to achieve with my pupils in school! LOL!

And IF you get sleepless night, I think you have had less pleasant sleepless night earlier ;-) Good luck! AUD ;-)