Overdyeing is the greatest. You can take something that either you don’t like, or are growing bored with, and change it into something new and fresh.
This is the wool I dyed some time ago.
And this is the lovely yarn I spun half of it into. Pretty! (Notice how the white spots all blend together and the overall color gets muted when you spin it.)
Instead of spinning the other half, I decided I wanted to transform it into something new. So….out came the orange dye!
I kettle-dyed the wool in a bath of solid orange. No extra hand painting or rainbow dyeing.
And finally, the resulting handspun. (this photo is horrible, it doesn’t pick up all the vibrant color well at all.) I spun it low twist, into a single-ply yarn. I could not be more pleased! So let’s see them side by side:
Neat!
