I'm partial to green. I've always though blue was my favorite color, but since knitting socks I've been finding myself leaning towards green colorways. So it wasn't surprising that I went directly to the brilliant Kelly green dye bottle when prepping the dye pot.
Although I was pleased with my initial results, I decided the yarn needed to go back into the yarn pot to be over dyed. The results were certainly retina burning and bright (and very pleasing). However, the results were messy as my skein looked like this:
Unravelling this mess consumed three hours of my Saturday morning. I painstakingly unwound and untangled this mass of green yarn that I have dubbed atomic jellybean green. I am proud to say that not once did I want to grab my scissors and start hacking myself out of this situation. Perhaps it was due to my persistence. Or it could have been the fact that I would have shed tears. Lot of tears.
Finally I unravelled the last tangled and caked my yarn. It now looks like this:
Although this skein of yarn has a happy ending, I've learned an important lesson that I need to secure my ties better during the dyeing process. If not, I'll be giving up more future Saturday mornings to unravel tangled messes.
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