I loved this design with this colorway in the Ling prototype. The prototype had a major flaw in the size and shape of the dragonfly and the pond weed. So, I get to do it again, in my favorite yarn. This time I’ll probably create a red beaded dragonfly. And I may just use 7 colors of beads, as counted. That assumes I can find 7 colors of beads that work together. Then again, I may go back to that blue dragonfly.

Before I’m allowed to start this, I must finish the Sing Like a Canary colorway prototype 3 panel in that fat lace yarn that is really a light fingering.

Beads from Ling version:
Center Water lily: T8-634A : Silverlined Straw Gold AB from Whimbeads.
Wings: T8-643 SL Teal AB from Whimbeads
Seaweed: T8-643A SL Chartreuse AB from Whimbeads
(I wonder if the numbers are right on the tubes, or not?)
Outer Body: Higher Metallic June Bug from Earthfaire Toho T8-0506
Inner Body: Duracoat Galvanized Seafoam from Earthfaire. Probably Toho, I don’t know the number.
Eyes: 8-283 --- Noir Lined Crystal AB
Outer water lily: Miyuki 8-1004 SL Dk Gold AB…May change my mind and use the straw gold again here.

I’ve now switched the colorway to a special put up of Midsummer Pond. 3 oz of skein #6 (the cream and pale celery one), 1 oz of skein #5, and 2 oz of skein #4.

I went from #6 to #5 at row 82, then from #5 to #4 at row 101. From #4 back to #5 at row 160, then #5 to #6 at row 173. All transitions are 12 row transitions. The first one could have been better done at row 84, perhaps.

When I soaked this before blocking, it bled and bled. I washed it to clear, then soaked some more and it bled some more. By the time I got done, all the cream was green.
:-(
I’ve never had TUS yarns bleed before. Perhaps they got hold of some bad dye. Accidents do happen.

I wrote Laura at TUS, and she is doing everything possible to make it right.

I have used Photoshop to do a color correction on these photos. They are pretty close to what I had before the bleeding took place.

row percent
41 5
64 10
81 15
94 20
106 25
117 30
126 35
135 40
144 45
151 50
159 55
166 60
172 65
179 70
185 75
191 80
197 85
202 90
208 95
212 100