Blues

I have fell in love with logwood. I have dyed with the logwood our lighter pale fog blue AAW (50% our own ethic produced arctic angora wool, 40% ethic produced FinnSheep wool, 10% nylon) (100g = 238m). I made 3 pics for you to show you how difficult and depending on many things it is to photograph the shades. This 1st pic shows too light shades, especially the left side yarn. The lightest shade is too light in this pic.

In this picture the left side yarn is too gloomy. I could say too dark, but it looks also gloomy compared to it what it is. The right side yarn is from the 1st bath and the rests one after another from left over baths.

This is better than the 2nd pic, but still it is not the right. The right shades are something between this and the 1st picture with the left side shade. The three other shades look more true in the 2nd pic. But it is difficult. And depends on also your screen resolutions etc. That's why it is easier to choose a pic you just like. 😂

I dyed also AAW snag grey shade with logwood. For these I used the left over dye bath. Again the shades in these pictures are not actual and true but close to it. I used leftover logwood dye bath to plant dye 800 g of snag grey AAW yarn to get blue-grey shade.

I didn't plan to do so but as a curious person and 1st time logwood user I wanted to see for how long the left over bath is usable in rationale way. The number is: 7 times! And if you use grey wool for the last baths you still get quite strong shades.

I used logwood also for the left side OOW yarn (25% arctic dog wool and 75% Finnsheep wool) in this picture. I made these for my mother-in-law. The red shade is dyed by the madder (Rubia tinctoria). More about the madder dyes later.