{"id":553,"date":"2009-01-15T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-01-14T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T17:54:21","slug":"some-more-thoughts-on-dyeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/some-more-thoughts-on-dyeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Some more thoughts on dyeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There hasn’t been a lot of progress on the knitting front here in the last week. I have been catching up with work and a bit of household maintenance. The work is coming along, I have fixed the dishwasher and defrosted both freezers so I feel I am making progress, though my to-do list is still quite extensive!<\/p>\n

I have been having a proper read of The Dyer’s Companion (Companion (Interweave))<\/a>\"\" and have discovered that I got the wrong end of the stick about the pH of the dye baths. It turns out that when she mentioned a pH of 4.5 to 5, that was referring to dyeing with premetalised dyes rather than with acid dyes. I have now read all the way through the book and there is no mention of what pH one should be aiming for when using acid dyes. I wonder whether this may depend on the brand of dyes one is using. I am thinking of trying some of the Kemtex acid dyes <\/a>next, to see what they are like to work with. Also their literature may have some more useful information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There hasn’t been a lot of progress on the knitting front here in the last week. I have been catching up with work and a bit of household maintenance. The work is coming along, I have fixed the dishwasher and defrosted both freezers so I feel I am making progress, though my to-do list is […]<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}