Yes, the long awaited yarn update is coming your way. But first, let’s look at some cute kid pics. We went to a birthday party on Sunday night. Sophie wore a handknit hand-me-down. I love this little sweater.
Trying to line up a pack of kids for a group photo is like herding cats.
I have been working a lot on getting my giant pile of yarn colored up. Tonight I was dyeing yarn on one side of the kitchen…
And baking cookies on the other side of the kitchen.
This is why I choose to use food coloring instead of commercial dyes.
Before I really started doing this, I would read about people “reskeining” their yarn after dyeing it. Why? I wondered. So then I tried it. Before on top, after on bottom. It looks so much neater, and the colors all blend together and look happy.
And here is one of pretty much each colorway I’ve dyed so far this batch. Most of them have a lot more where that came from – or at least a few more. Colors are not entirely accurate here.
There is also that little pile of mostly-solid colors, which are also intended to be sold, but that story is for another night. I’ll leave you with one more tidbit. The plan is to put all this yarn up on etsy some time in mid-September. I want to get through the start of the school year and Julie’s birthday, plus give myself a little more time to dye up more yarn before I deal with the shipping portion of the business.
Love the colors!!
Especially the red!!
I love the red and the bluey greeny one!
I love the red too. I also loved the hand me down knit sweater, looks like Opal yarn??? If so it is the same Opal I used for the first time and I remember sitting amazed at how the stripes would form. Karyn
katrynka is reading my mind! Much love for the red and the blue/green! Oh and the cookies. mmmmmm…cookies!
They look fabulous! the colors are phenomenal.
i hope that the selling develops just as you like. Good for you for actually doing it! and i think that it’s a great thing that you’re giving yourself enough time to get everything the way that you want it to be.
Those look great! I like the colorful black (does that make sense?)one on the bottom!