A Cautionary Tale

 

My Ravello is completely finished.  All the ends are woven in and to block it, I tossed it in the wash.  I've used this yarn before (Loopy Ewe Solids Series) and never had any trouble with the colors running, but I've never used red before.  It ran.  All over the Ivory.  This is actually an improvement from what it did look like.  I ended up using Synthropol (it binds to free floating dye molocules) to both directly pretreat the red blotches and in the wash along Color Catchers, and that did get rid of the red blotches, but my Ivory is now a strange pink color.

I'll probably leave it for a few days/weeks before I make any decisions, but at this point I think my choices are to leave it and toss it on over my PJ's in the morning, or I could try to overdye it (I'm thinking a pale blue which would make the red/pink areas more purple and should still work with the gray, but I'm open to suggestions on this).  If I try the overdying and it works, I could have a wearable sweater.  If it doesn't work, I've still got something to toss over my PJ's in the morning.

While I'm obviously not thrilled about what happened, I'm not heartbroken either.  I've learned a new lesson:  Never trust any yarn not to run and always prewash!  I've got yarn for two more Ravello's upstairs and both will be prewashed to eliminate any extra dye!

Lesson learned.