Flush with the success of my Ugly Sock solution, I faced another dilemma in a similar vein.
I finally got around to making Wicked, about 4 decades after the rush. I know it’s not 4 decades, but online time plays by different rules – like dog years. I wanted a basic sweater – the kind of thing I could throw over every shirt I own. And, after several chilly winters of having to remove sweaters in order to cook or do other homeschooling mama tasks, I thought something short-sleeved might be the way to go. Enter Wicked – sweet and simple and sporting a darling kangaroo pocket.
When I was shopping for it in Toronto this spring, they didn’t have the dark brown, navy, or black I’d envisioned. But sometimes grey works well, so I went with a heathered grey: Cascade 220 Heathers, 8011. It turned out that it was not one of the Good Greys, at least not on me. I’ve got a lot of yellow in my complexion and it makes colour choice important.
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Throw it in the dye pot!
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And so we have it. A simple, black sweater that won’t drag through the sauce. Or make me look like a zombie.
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You are the dye pot QUEEN!!! Well done, looks fab on u.
What a difference the dye pot made. It was lovely before but GORGEOUS afterwords….
Love the Kangaroo pocket with the cables. Beautiful knitting!
Great idea! It’s such a cool sweater. I might have to add this to my ravelry list.
Looks fantastic! Isn’t it incredible the difference that colour makes?
Such a good idea! People often don’t like knitting, seaming, etc. with black yarn because it’s hard to see, but this is a solution to all that!
Your sweater is beautiful! I’m very impressed with how perfectly it dyed. I have a light grey wool fabric that I would like to dye. I was wondering if you could tell me how to do it and what kind of dye you used.
Thanks.
Aren’t you lucky to have a sister who not only had leftover black dye, but also surprised you by coming down for the weekend and delivering it? 😉
(It looks great, btw!)