Pecan Hull Dyed Combinatorics MKAL
Finished
August 30, 2017
October 2, 2017

Pecan Hull Dyed Combinatorics MKAL

Project info
Combinatorics Shawl by Tetiana Otruta
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
me
Large, 102" x 24" ('light' worsted weight yarn)
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
952 yards
Willow Yarns Rustic
3.76 skeins = 601.6 yards (550.1 meters), 188 grams
white
Overdyed with Pecan Hulls
Brown
Tuesday Morning in North Carolina
May 2017
Willow Yarns Rustic
1.53 skeins = 176.0 yards (160.9 meters), 76 grams
645
White
Tuesday Morning in North Carolina
May 2017
Willow Yarns Rustic
1.52 skeins = 174.8 yards (159.8 meters), 76 grams
Natural/Undyed
Tuesday Morning in North Carolina
May 2017
Notes

Late to the party - but I think this yarn will be perfect (even if NOT fingering weight)… The contrast of the un-dyed yarn with it’s dyed counterpart is just too cool!

This yarn is this year’s first batch of “Naturally dyed” yarn using Pecan Hull ‘soup’ (water + crushed nut hulls), along with a couple of skeins of the un-dyed white yarn. Taking advantage of gradual diminishing of the dye-stuff in the vat… These are skeins #2 and #3 of the same batch, but subsequently dyed… so each is successively lighter. There probably is enough for yet another skein… will see if I need it to finish this pattern. :D

09-07-2017

I’m enjoying having each lace section be a little bit different and alternating colors… keeps my interest (other than the garter stitch ridges - but those are a necessary ‘evil’ to make it all work together!) I’m cutting the non-working color at the beginning of each lace section; since it’s wool, it should stay woven in, and would ‘show’ if I tried to carry the non-used color.

Wondering how many more sections I can make my yarn last through… At the end of Part 4, I will have used a little over 1 skein (15 yards) of each color - and have one more dyed brown skein and some non-white ‘cream colored’ skeins in reserve… Hope I have enough to make a decent sized shawl. :D

09-24-2017

Still plugging along. Did section 6 with some of the off-white and there’s more variation in the Pecan Dyed than I’d like - but, as a friend pointed out, nobody will know but me that it wasn’t supposed to be that way. I see that several folks did each section with a different color - so maybe that will be my ‘look’…

10-03-2017

Finished! Soaking has made it long and skinny… might have to get out my pins and do some aggressive blocking - but could be a lovely scarf wrap like that.

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Aran
100% Wool
115 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: August 30, 2017
  • Finished: October 2, 2017
  • Updated: October 4, 2017
  • Progress updates: 4 updates