I had a bit of time sans kids and husband, so I knocked out quite a few colors.\u00a0 Same procedure as before, one small spoonful of dye powder to 4 cups of water and 1\/4 cup of vinegar, 6 yard skeins, pulled every 5 minutes.\u00a0 The russet, emerald, and turquoise were opaque at the start of the dyeing process.\u00a0 None of them were exhausted at the end.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a bit of time sans kids and husband, so I knocked out quite a few colors.\u00a0 Same procedure as before, one small spoonful of dye powder to 4 cups of water and 1\/4 cup of vinegar, 6 yard skeins, pulled every 5 minutes.\u00a0 The russet, emerald, and turquoise were opaque at the start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/dyeing-for-color-part-1-purple-and-gold\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"Dyeing for Color Part 1: Purple and Gold","author":"admin","date":"April 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's spring and nature is spreading color all over the place (mostly green pollen all over my car).\u00a0 Since Spring Break is here, and a little bit of extra time with it, I thought I'd do my part to help.\u00a0 Last week I prepped ahead and ordered 10 Jacquard Acid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "dyeing"","block_context":{"text":"dyeing","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/fibers\/dyeing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pankedy Pinkity","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4500851308_b181d459f5_s.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/reinventing-the-wheel\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":1},"title":"Reinventing the Wheel","author":"admin","date":"April 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so after struggling with the very small dye powder weights and thinking that I was going to need to get and analytical scale to be able to do small dye lots... 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