My friend Heidi and I decided it was time to have a "Dye Day". So, on Friday we gathered some rovings, fleeces, and yarn and plunged ourselves into colors. We thought it would be fun to create our own self patterning sock yarn. To accomplish this, we created extra long rovings by setting 2 chairs apart - way apart. As this was our first attempt, we thought 3 colors would be more manageable.
For the colors, we used a concoction of Louet dyes. Heidi was kind enough to bring her array of colors along. Pots were boiling, kitchen was steaming, fan was humming, we were two color witches mixing and soaking our yarns into magical potions.
Results were to dye for :c) just kidding. Not bad for our first attempt at self patterning. (Heidi's result on picture directly below, mine - last photo)
Recently, the Spinning Guild I belong to had to relocate its library to a more suitable place which meant having to sort through years of periodicals and decide which ones to keep and which ones to recycle. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a few issues of "Spin-Off" magazine (a brainchild of Interweave Press) which contained beautiful patterns, one of which caught my eyes. I love to work fair-isle and these Scandanavian-Inspired mittens was just the project I was looking for. The pattern itself needed a few adjustments but I think they turned out pretty good :c)
