Portland Fleece - Part II

First up is one of the double knit weight yarns, which is 106g/328m.  I dyed this using Greener Shades dye at a dye depth of 1% in shade Sunshine Yellow.  A 1% dye depth means that you use 1g of dye for every 100g of yarn.

I had decided that I wanted to have a go at trying to obtain some peach yarns.  Peach can be a difficult colour to achieve, getting the tone right is a nightmare, never-mind trying to get three different shades.  I was using my micro scales to weigh out the tiny tiny amounts of dye needed in the percentages of each colour required and a milk bottle screw top cap was "the bowl" to weigh the dye into.

This first yarn is double knit weight and 105g/259m, dyed using Greener Shades dye at a dye depth of 0.1%, made up of 75% Sunshine Yellow and 25% Sunset Orange.  A dye depth of 0.1% means that you use 0.1g of dye for every 100g of yarn and then this total amount of dye is split 75/25 between 2 colours.  Can you imagine weighing out 0.075g of dye and 0.025g of dye to make up that one-tenth of a gram of dye required!

This yarn is just as I had hoped for.

This yarn is double knit weight and 104g/274m, dyed using Greener Shades dyes at a dye dept of 0.2%, 75% Sunshine Yellow, 25% Sunset Orange.  Technically this is just a dark shade of the first yarn.  The colours and percentages used are exactly the same, its just the dye depth that is increased, which means that I use double the weight of dye for the same amount of yarn which produces as stronger/darker shade.   Not too bad, a tad orange, but maybe that was my dye weighing.  The micro scales that I have are not the best as a really really good accurate set cost a lot of money, which I hope one day I will be able to afford to get.

The final yarn is worsted weight and 105g/255m and again dyed with Greener Shades dye at a dye depth of 0.2% made up of 75% Sunset Orange and 25% Ruby Red.  With hindsight I am thinking that instead of shifting dye colours and introducing Ruby Red that perhaps I should have just doubled the amounts of dye used on the previous 2 skeins again to make a 0.4% dye depth or even calculated for a 0.3% dye depth.  

 And finally a pretty photo to show all 3 colours off together. It's just a pity that I didn't use all three double knit weight yarns for this dye experiment, I could have used them together in one project if I had done that.