What’s this? The emperor’s new yarn?

Maybe it’s a photo I took because I forgot to take a pre-skeined shot.

Pink and a bit scratchy, but not without promise.

And a bit moth-eaten, as it turned out. Still, they’d only nibbled on the ends of a few balls, resulting in this many shortish bits. I tied them all together to dye up anyway. After all, I might want a fringe.

Soaking…

Blue and red food colouring mixed together to hopefully make purple.

Or maybe not. Maybe just a slightly purply pink with patches of blue, and an overall pastelly grey effect.

It’s a mystery why it took in some places and not others. It’s 100% wool. But it did come up a lot softer. However… while it’s pretty, it’s still not very ‘me’.

Still, it’s no loss. It kept me entertained on Monday when my back was too stuffed for knitting. I’ve had my fun, now it’s in the ‘yarn to give away’ bag to hopefully delight another knitter.

(I do wonder if I subconsciously influenced the dyeing somehow in order to not add more yarn to my stash. Surely not. That would be taking the stash-reduction thing to a whole new level of silliness.)