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I made my first attempt at dyeing the color wheel (using Lanaset dyes) yesterday, and got fairly decent results. I only hit one color “dead on”, but that was more than I had expected! and it was a single shade (turquoise), so not that hard to manage. Here are the closest-matching yarns, wrapped and set [...]
Today began relatively early, even for me. I woke up around 5:08 am when a Small Furry Thing informed me that it was breakfast time. I rolled over and went back to sleep, and woke up again around 5:12 am with the same Small Furry Thing rubbing her head against my hands and explaining how [...]
Who would have imagined a wedding would have so many loose ends? Tally for the last few days: Bought plane tickets for honeymoon Started wedding registry at Amazon.com (oops, should have done that earlier!) Arranged for wedding-hairdo flowers (gardenias and small orchids) Sent out some late invitations Finished another 22 bookmarks Bought and reading two [...]
I have now done another seven or eight batches of dye samples, producing some GLORIOUS colors. Here is some of the eye candy: Believe it or not, I am rapidly nearing the end of the 400 skeins I had wound originally! Fortunately, I already sent off enough yarn to make another 500 skeins or so, [...]
Ginny, bless her heart, emailed me on Friday letting me know she had nearly finished winding my dye samples onto bobbins. So I went and picked them up today. Beautiful colors – I’ve been working with the blue-purple-magenta range and really like the color blends I’ve been getting. Here’s a photo: For this round of [...]
