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These actually have more purple in them than it looks like in the sun, which is very bright today. The one with lots of green is fingering weight silk and wool, the three matching (I hope) space dyed...
Sigh. Maybe I'll put it back on the porch for the birds to make something useful with.
You know when you work on something, plan it for a long time, put a lot of thought into it, into it's execution and then . . . . you just end up hating the darn thing like it's a living thing capable ...
Vis a vis Amy Rose
I have too many things going on at once.Again.I'm so unique, aren't I?The blue monster is still lovely, and I'm almost done with the body, but the intensive knit and purl pattern isn't thrilling me ri...
Sometimes hybrid vigor works out
When you look at just Mom and Dad, it's hard to imagine that the offspring wouldn't be kind of nasty and clashy. Yet, it works - well, I think it works....
Amy Rose the Hedgehog, part 2
Stank up the kitchen with hot vinegar last night dying Knitpicks Bare Silk/Merino fingering weight with store brand neon food color dye (purple and pink) to go with the first Kool Aid dyed round of A...
Amy Rose the Hedgehog
Instructions are pretty much the same as yesterday.Yes, the little one is going through a hardcore Sonic phase.So what was I thinking doing with this? Haha! Knitting the New Classics by Kristin Nich...
The things you can do with food coloring!
This was a truck load of fun! I would highly suggest it as fun for the over 5 set. Safe, easy clean up, lots of creativity to be had. We didn't wear gloves, but we did change into black sweats for ...
Kool-Aid
Okay, here's our target: Knitpicks Bare Silk/Merino fingering weight (440 yds per sk, I'm going to use 2.5 or so of these) and fingering weight mohair from the Wool Peddler. And here's the idea for th...
Socks, one down
I really like this yarn, in fact, I can see it working out for some small gauge sweater patterns that need some strength to their hand so they don't get too drape-y. And for a man's sweater, where a ...
More ideas for child safe dying
So you don't want all those pastels, eh?How about this? Use onions and beets, or just food coloring? I like the idea of being about to do some browns, maybe make some nice low key entralac socks, an...
Kool-Aid?
There are many places that will tell you how dye fiber with Kool Aid, but I have to admit this one appeals most. It has nice pictures! Knitty has a nice entry on this as well.And so but, I'm thinking...
Meatsheep, front and back
So here it is, out on my porch. I had to go back and do some fixes to it, like the arm gussets and adding the border to the bottom, but all in all, I feel like it was an overall success.If the bottom...
Maaaahhhhh! The meatsheep is eating my hands!
Ouch.Not really - I'm almost done with sleeve number one. The fabric, as I've said, isn't lovely, but the colors are really nice. I think you can see the Fassett influence in how the colors play out...
Meatsheep continues . . .
Maybe a little less than halfway up the back. The colors are really lovely. It has decent hand, too, though it will never be soft and cosy. The Mad Crocheter told me she's heard that people have some ...