This - 4 skeins of SG Zaftig, bought post-open house as mystery skeins from the custom zaftig colorways. Colorway - Fiery Searcher Beetle.
A seemingly lovely brown indoors,
when taken outdoors into sunlight -- yikes! - takes on a yellowy-olive-cast -
Seriously - does it look like poo to you?
Luckily, she was able to redunk these in some reddish and pink, and hot pink, to turn the puke yellow into a lovely mahogany-chestnut colour - so, brown with red tones - much nicer.
My camera likes to show the skeins in sun as being either really red, or bordering on purple, shown below with a sample snip of the old
and shown below next to the colorway Cowkiller (shown on the left), which is a definite red-based brown; the pics turned out surprisingly accurate:
and below with Cowkiller in the centre flanked by the new overdye on either side:
Hooray - Em saved the day - well, at least, my yarn.
I was going to put a superhero pic here but instead found this - Create your own Super hero.
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