Feb 17 2008
weekend fun
this is one of those times i REALLY wish I had a camera - so i could show you some of the awesomeness that I created this weekend.
Over the holidays I dyed some yarn for gifts, and got a really good response. This has been the first weekend since then that I really had time to play again.
A few weeks ago, I was talking about some of my future dyeing plans to a friend of mine. I was waxing rhapsodic about all the ways I could experiment once I made myself a warping board type thing to wind yarn on.
“You know i have a warping board in the basement? Right?”
“Huh?” (I am very cogent when surprised 
)
“Ya know, from when I used to weave. Do you want it?”
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I spent some time this week reading up on warping boards (there isn’t a lot of info out there) and then went to town. Up until now skeining yarn has been a bit of a pain. Winding on to my umbrella swift hasn’t been thrilling me - it is ungainly and my inner mechanical engineer (who is a 2nd grader) can tell that it is wildly inefficient. The warping board, while having its own amount of inefficiencies, is WAY better and much easier to use. As far as I am concerned it is a total win.
I had 2 skeins of KnitPicks Bare merino/silk fingering yarn that I had dyed at the end of my holiday dyeing and had ended up a drab pink and dull purple. They got reskeined and over dyed. They are now still pink and purple, but now its more of a deeper purple with some pink glowing out of it. It still isn’t my favorite, but my roommate, is trying to steal it while my back is turned.
I had 2 skeins of KnitPicks merino/tencel sock yarn - they are now a fiery blend of light golden yellows, deep oranges, and burnt chestnut.
7 skeins of puke light olive Plymouth Baby Alpaca DK got completely re-skeined and over dyed. They are now drip drying in the bathroom, I am hoping that they are a a dark green/teal with light green overtones when dry. This was my first attempt to make 2 separate pots of yarn turn out the same, when they are dry I’ll be able to judge better - but I think I did a pretty good job.
So.. if you’ve still not scrounged a camera by the end of next week, bring down the loveliness, and we’ll use mine!
(I’m hoping to invade Erin’s house to join you for a TV-show marathon one day, during which, of course, there will be knitting.
Mom might loan me hers, and I might be able to borrow one from work for pictures this afternoon. (crosses fingers)
I can’t wait to see you the weekend after next!!!