The yellows were yummy!
Today's dye day was a resounding success... I'm exhausted!! but the dyepots just kept going.
These are the yellows - pomegranate, California sagebrush, oxalis, on several different wools. Oh, they were great.
I didn't get a picture of the clown pot yarns!! but oh, I feel so proud... Tammi loved the skein she got so much she got goosebumps!! That's when I know I've done a good job of getting somebody hooked on dyeing.
Labels: Dye Day, dyeing, dyeplants, oxalis, pomegranate, wool, yarn, yellow dyes
Caracol snails, and FO!
I'm taking this picture from the boat -- you can see how rough the sea is on the rocks. Habecuc is putting caracol on the shawl I brought.
Steph and I couldn't climb out to where the snails were, so Eric brought a snail to us. Habecuc presses on the "foot" of the snail to make it give dye.
This is the topside of the snail. I knew you could figure that out, but it seemed rude to just give you the picture without text.
Habecuc is showing us how he wraps the yarn around his finger to paint it with the snails. It looks green, but will turn purple in the sun. You can see the stains on his clothes have already turned purple.
On Fiber: FO! (Finished Object!!) I started these socks a couple days before Christmas, and finished them today. The yarn is Plymouth Yarn Company Happy Feet, 90% Superwash Merino Wool, 10% Nylon. There are 192 yds to 50grams in the skein, and I knit them on 2.5mm bamboo dpns (double pointed needles).
I finished them in the doctor's office, and then picked up the Shards socks. I broke one of the Grafton needles, and they replaced it, and sent extras! Whoo hooo!! I cast on for the second sock, so I think things will go faster now. Funny that - knitting a pair goes faster when I knit both at the same time.
I also re-washed a few batts of the Prudence fleece. It seemed gummy and sticky-- apparently I didn't wash out all the lanolin the first time. That will get spun this weekend, hopefully.
Labels: Caracol, dyeing, Oaxaca, Snails
Yarn!
The white yarn at right is what I spun this holiday break (see the spreadsheet below). The brown skeins are from Marcia's estate (sigh... I miss her) and the mini-skeins are from a dye day. If I'd written down the details, I could remember what dye day, and what dyes.
The spreadsheet I started to track my spinning... now I'm realizing that I might want to keep track of all my spinning. The next decision is how much, or maybe how publicly, I want to document all this.
So, leave me a comment. Do you want a lot of mundane details, like "Tonight I knitted 3 rows on the Ice Queen," or not?
Labels: dyeing, spinning, tapestry
