I am still busy with knitting work. The kind that makes for boring pictures of empty table tops. Because otherwise I would be in big trouble for showing pictures of super secret design stuff. And I always follow the rules. Even if my mother would strongly disagree.
I can show you the yarn I dyed with Sonya. She has some great pictures. Go on, click the link, I’ll wait. She brought over some knitted blanks and we set to work with the K*ool-aid. Having dyed yarn at the store, I knew it was alot of work to make hand-painted yarn. Instead, I gave into my lazinesschose to tie-dye my blank. This method also allowed me more time to hang out and watch Sonya work talk with a friend.
The cake looks very different from the blank. I think once it is knitted up, it will have a tweedy look to it. Of course, it is taking all my will power to not cast on and find out. I can only knit so many things at once. And I must get some of the design work off my needles first.
5 responses so far ↓
Shorty // Jul 7, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Come on J. knit it. I hear it calling you, “knit me, please knit me! Come on and knit me! Knit just a little. Come on you know you want to. Come on knit me up. It’ll be so good, I promise. Just a n inch or two.”
Okay, I’m starting to freak myself out now. That got a little creepy. lol
Go ahead and knit it already.
Sonya
2paw // Jul 7, 2008 at 6:42 pm
How exciting that looks!! Will you knit with the wool doubled????
jae // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:37 am
hmmm… I hadn’t considered that? I might if I knit a hat or something.
Donyale // Jul 8, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Come on! Just a teeny tiny swatch…..
Jenna // Jul 13, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Wow. Just stumbled onto your site and now I know I’ll be coming back. How did I miss this as a way to dye yarn? Big ol’ swatch, dye, than frog.
I’m seeing a use finally for the knitting machine the hubby got me (I don’t mind stockinet for a finished project, but I may go nutty if I make a gignatic swatch just to rip out.). Very cool.
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