Cake dyeing

My dear friend is an enabler... We've been bouncing yarn dyeing ideas off each other and recently joined the ravelry gradients group, so...

I dyed a cake of yarn.  50gm sock yarn (it's either bfl or mcn, I'm not sure); dharma's vermillion with some black and brown thrown in. I caked it, and through it in a dye bath with 4 TBL white vinegar and simmered for 30 minutes.

I took a look after I got home from work... it wasn't quite dry but here it was:

I felt a little meh. But I skeined it up:

 And the inside looked this:

Meh. I balled it up and mixed up some green and was about to throw it in the dyebath, reversed, figuring it'd come out brown, when I decided I liked the delicate pinks and mottled vermillion. This may be exactly the yarn I want to linen stitch with. So I balled up the other 50 grams, and through it in the dye pot with the green; it's 1/8 tsp kelly green, 1/8 tsp black, and I used about 1/2 the mixture. Pix of that tomorrow.