{"id":9661,"date":"2019-07-25T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:53:02","slug":"2-more-batches-of-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/07\/2-more-batches-of-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more batches of socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like the socks I hand painted in soft green and blue, although to my mind they are not as unique or as fun as the shibori socks.<\/p>\n

\"hand<\/a><\/p>\n

For this next batch of socks I wanted red. But I got dark orange. Unlike 99% of my photos of red things, these socks look more red in the photo than they do in real life.<\/p>\n

\"not-red<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve exchanged emails with the dye company. Understandably, their dyes can be expected to hold their color for 2 years. Mine are 3 years old. And in my experience reds are problematic colors anyway. I’ve ordered new red dyes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pair of the orange I previously dyed and the not-red ones for comparison. <\/p>\n

\"comparison<\/a><\/p>\n

So here’s a question for my readers: should I –<\/p>\n

(1) leave as is with lots of socks very close in color?
\n(2) overdye the not-red with yellow?
\n(3) overdye the not-red with the new red?
\n(4) attempt to create a burgundy with the new dyes and overdye with that?<\/p>\n

I’d love your input!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like the socks I hand painted in soft green and blue, although to my mind they are not as unique or as fun as the shibori socks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

For this next batch of socks I wanted red. But I got dark orange. Unlike 99% of my photos of red things, these socks look more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-dyeing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}