Dragonfruit handyed yarn

I love dragon fruit color. bright fuchsia and I thought it was good if I dyed my hand spun yarn with dragon fruit skin.

I put amount two dragon fruits skin with 1,5 litter water and heat it until boiled. The color is good, it turn to light fuchsia. then i let the water boiled for 10 minutes more, but the water color turn to be tea brown color. It's not the color I want, so I turn off the heat, i put my hand spun yarn into pan.

I sit the yarn and water overnight. In the morning I watched that the water became fuchsia color again, but the yarn's color became light  yellow

very light and the color is nice although this is not the color I want from the dragon fruit.

Plying the Yarn

At first,when I finished my first hand spun yarn, it looks very thick and bumpy. it's out of my imagination about thin, smooth yarn.

then I spun another wool. the second more thin and neat. I became comfort with the drop spindle. then came the plying the yarn.

there are several method for plying the yarn, but i thought navajo plying is the simplest method for beginner. I tried it with my first handspun yarn.

see, the yarn still bumpy, but I satisfied with my first work :)