I try (but don't always) keep the recipes for the different colours that I dye.  And usually I am able to replicate certain colours without too much difficulty.  However there are some colours that misbehave.  For example, I have a gold dye which hardly ever looks exactly the same, no matter how careful I am with the measuring spoon.  Now most knitters understand that if something is hand dyed they are buying a product that is unique and which cannot be guaranteed to look the same even when the same dye recipe is used.  However ..... last week I dyed this hank:



And I wrote down the recipe ...... but can I replicate it?  No, is the empahtic answer.  And I dearly want to replicate it as I want to dye enough for a cardigan.  But no matter how much I've tried, I cannot get it to look like this hank, of which there are only 2.  I have got varying shades of pink, purple, lilac and a mix of all of them, but I cannot get this shade to return to the dye pot.  Now I think I know why this is the case, and I can't spill the beans and let the secret out, but I think it has to do with me coming to the end of the dye solutions in certain shades when I was dyeing this, but as yet the mystery recipe remains just that.  A mystery.

So ..... there are 2 hanks of the mystery shade, and while I want to keep these for myself and perhaps knit a Rock Island Shawl, or Rhombus socks, I will, reluctantly, part with the yarn if you feel you have a better idea of how to use it.  It isn't up in the shop, but if you think you'd like it, get in touch or leave a comment.  The yarn is a High Twist 100% Pure Falkland Merino yarn.  It is very soft, and there is approximately 365m in a 100g hank.  And there are 2 hanks.

Sometimes being a dyer can be extremely frustrating!