Pink and Green. :: Dyeing & BA Illustration.

At college- we are preparing some work for an external exhibition, at a pretty famous design agency in London. There are several restrictions that all of our work has to conform to. It's got to be presented in a white frame and we are only allowed to use two colours- Pink and Green. A lot of people are doing prints, where the colours can be overprinted to create a kind of grey/purple, and of course there's always the question of how opaque do you want the colours to be etc... 

To make sure that I could really control the colours, and that they would been consistent- I decided to dye my wool! As Green is one of the hardest colours to achieve in Natural Dyeing- I opted for the quicker 'dye packet' method. I know, I know... but I've never tried Woad or Indigo dyeing before, and as it's a pretty tight deadline, I just needed to get it done. haha. Still- I managed to 'mix' the colours nicely until I got the perfect shades. I took some process photos too, to share with you:I did a lot of experimenting. Some were too yellow or taupe, and the navy mix never really lightened enough to be green. haha! Eventually I got there..It was incredibly fun to play with the ratio of water to dye, and how long to soak and mixing the yellow and different blues. I also tried mixing the pink and green dyebaths, but they didn't really come out- so I'm sticking to this lot (down below). I got the colours approved by the curating team- now I just need to actually knit the designs I've been making. eep! Here they are all spun and rolled into balls/cones- ready to be knitted up!
Love you, Kimxo

Comments

[Charis]

Gorgeousness! I can't knit but my golly do I love wool!

[Mademoiselle Marie]

the colors are astonishing! I love natural dyes but the pink shades and the green... <3 <3 <3 !
I just ordered a huge bulk of undyed wool. Can't wait to start playing with natural dyes :)

[Lana aka Loobyroux]

yummy colours. goodluck xxx

[Jennifer]

such beautiful colours, love all the tones you've made ~ good luck with your project!

[new era pas cher]

Le blog a été absolument fantastique! Grande quantité d'informations peut être utile d'une façon ou d'une autre. Gardez la mise à jour le blog, en espérant voir plus de contenu ... Bon travail, continuez comme ça ....

[mbt prix]

Es ist mir eine große Freude, Ihre Website zu besuchen und Ihren ausgezeichneten Beitrag hier zu genießen. Ich liebe es.

[Nnenna]

I love looking at all these photos of pretty yarn :) I can't wait to see what you knit up with all of this!

[new era gorras]

J'aime regarder toutes ces photos de fils jolie :) Je ne peux pas attendre de voir ce que vous tricoter avec tout cela!