Yesterday J and S came over and we had a blast, we pulled out all of the fun salon supplies and bleached and colored our hair. I desperately wanted to dye mine teal, but the pink hadn’t come out of my hair yet and I know enough about color-mixing that I figured that was a bad idea. So we dyed the formerly pink hair a bright blue with some purple blended in. And we added a section of teal over and under it. I am thrilled with the way it turned out. I am hoping for a better picture later [...]
[singlepic=50,320,240,,left] But it should be. I am sure I am knitting the pattern, but it really doesn’t look like the Lovelyness which i have seen in Grumperina’s scarf gallery. It also has a few structural problems, like needing a needle 2 sizes or so larger. So I have decided its a REALLY large swatch (at this point its about 2x the size it is in the picture.) So I am starting again on larger needles and with 20 fewer stitches than is in the original pattern (10 less than the “swatch”.) The yarn is my own hand-dyed yarn, the base [...]
I sometimes realize how terrible I am at updating with any useful content up here. So while I sit here and let bread rise (yes at 11:55 pm) I’d try to write up a bit. It feels like its been about 6 years since the winter holidays. We had a bit of a tough time around here, and while it isn’t my story to tell, suffice it to say the resulting stress has used up quite a bit of our resources. I’ve been being a bit more of a homebody, and a little less “grossly” social. This has done [...]
So I snagged the bosses camera (an EOS!!! – now I am totally spoiled) and took some pics of my recent playing with hand-dyeing. I was a bit in a rush so haven’t edited the pictures much, but the colors are pretty accurate as is. For all of these there are more pics on the tab labeled Hand Dyeing at the top of the page. [singlepic=41,320,240,left] The first pic here is of one of the 2 skeins of Knit Picks Bare sock weight merino/tencel yarn I dyed this way. It is incredibly squishy and feels great. At the risk of [...]
Originally posted at Which-Crafts So I snagged the bosses camera (an EOS!!! – now I am totally spoiled) and took some pics of my recent playing with hand-dyeing. I was a bit in a rush so haven’t edited the pictures much, but the colors are pretty accurate as is. For all of these there are more pics on the tab labeled Hand Dyeing at the top of the page. [singlepic=41,320,240,left] The first pic here is of one of the 2 skeins of Knit Picks Bare sock weight merino/tencel yarn I dyed this way. It is incredibly squishy and feels great. [...]
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