dying to dye

All summer long, I've been walking around the house saying "I want to dye!!" Earlier today, I finallly got my chance.



I used all the colors we had ready and made it up as I went along. At one point towards the end of it, I was like, "Everything needs more Fuschia." I didn't weargloves even though we had them, and my hands ended up blue.



But the end result is really pretty and my hands will lose the blue color, eventually.


(front side drying)


(back side drying)

Tour de Fleece!!!

Today is the start of the Tour de France and with it is the Tour de Fleece! There are two (that I know of) currently running. I joined the one with guidelines rather than rules. Not that rules are bad but, it's not like I have anything to specificly spin for the Tour. But since lately, I've been trying to balance knitting and spinning and a few hours of almost every day are going to be taken up by my driver's ed class that I started on Thursday, I'm not going to be spinning so fast as to get a skein a day. So, I'll post pictures as I finish each skeins. Here's the one I finished earlier today.

It's a skein of yarn that I'm using to knit the Cap Shawl out of Victorian Lace Today for the Spun Stitches Knit/Spin-a-long (link in sidebar). I'm spinning as I knit. When I run out of yarn from one skein, I spin a new one. I kinda like doing it that way. So I'm not in a rush to spin all of my roving up to knit with it.