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Done with dye study group!

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 15, 2010

Nothing was ever so sweet as this: It took me three dyebaths and something like 24 skeins to get it right, but I have successfully reproduced the color!! This finishes out my Lanaset dye work for the dye study group, and because the group is finishing up in early October, I don’t think I’m going [...]

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More color matching attempts

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 13, 2010

I only squeezed in one dyebath this weekend, but it was instructive.  I managed to match one more color from the color wheel (only two left to go), and got one more near-match for the beige: On the right is the first attempt; on the left is the second attempt, the color I’m trying to [...]

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…and a touch of glitz

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 5, 2010

I liked the peacock feather from yesterday, but it seemed a little drab.  After all, peacocks are brilliantly colored, are they not?  So I got out one of the pirns of fine gold thread left over from the wedding-coat fabric, and wove two more feathers.  And here, in full, is the evolution of the peacock [...]

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Color wheel, attempt 3

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 2, 2010

I finished the next set of attempts for the color wheel.  Here are the photos and my notes (note that the photo is very untrue to color, for reasons noted below – it’s more to give a general idea of what’s going on than an actual sense for the matches): I am still finding it [...]

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Color wheel, attempt #2

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 30, 2010

Peg asked whether it was difficult to determine the match when dealing with a glossy yarn “chip”.  It is extremely difficult, because the hue and value change markedly depending on the angle of the yarn to the light and to the viewer.  I finally settled on using diffuse daylight with the book flat in front [...]

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