Two of the scarves in my Christmas-scarf project that I started a little over a year ago (scarves for all my family members) ended up not quite being the right colors. I made green and cream for my niece and navy/purple/teal and cream for my sister-in-law before I learned that one of them likes watery blues and turquoise, and the other likes purples and darker blues. No problem, I'll just overdye them with blue dye, and end up with one that's turquoise and blue, and one that's purple and blue, right?
Here is a before picture.
I used Jacquard Acid Dye in Sapphire Blue, with the stovetop method, and the color turned out more intense than I'd expected. The scarves
are pretty, just harder to tell apart than I thought they would be!
Turquoise and blue on the left, purple/navy and blue on the right.
The main problem? I managed to gradually change the temperature throughout the dye process
to avoid felting the wool, until the wash in the washer at the end to
remove excess dye. I used cold water there...forgetting that at this time of
year, that's icy rather than just cool (as the scarves were "cool" at
that point)...and the fringe is now felted dreadlocks.
What should I do about the ruined fringe? Leave it as felted dreadlocks all straggly lengths...cut it off even but still kind of long dreadlocks...cut it off just below the knots...cut it off and hemstitch it...or something else?