Lavender and old lace-weight
I ran into an old friend while cleaning out my cosmetics drawer. A bit of Tish and Snooky’s manic panic hair color in a shade called “Ultra Violet” I remember buying it a few years back thinking that violet would be a good change from my usual mandarin orange.
As it turned out, I was horribly horribly wrong. It was a bad change, a disturbing change. It made my complexion look as though I had failing liver function.
Not a total loss though, it did pretty things to my yarn. I figured that the peroxide would have weakened with age so I added a little vinegar and ammonia and then soaked it. Ammonia always seems to do a nice job of distributing the dye through a skein.
Not exactly an intense color, but clean and I’m sure Lexi won’t mind a bit if I knit her a shawl from it.