I am doing a little sidestep away from the projects I have going. Not enough completed projects happening for my taste. Instead of waiting to finish the Jefferson or the Carla I just put them away in their nice little canvas case & stored them in another room. That way I didn’t have the guilt of association with them by my chair while I cast on for the lamb’s pride fair isle sweater.
Have I mentioned I love lamb’s pride?? I do. It’s just a perfect yarn all the way around. The color choice, the weight, the gauge. Perfect!
I got my colors all figured out on the chart last night & wrote out the pattern, basing it on the Kureyon yoke sweater that I finished not too long ago. I started at the yoke to work the fair isle first. Please, please ignore the fact that these pictures are all blurry. My camera is about to completely die. I can get good closeups but not good medium distance pictures, ie 5 feet away.
Mess o’ lamb’s pride
I also worked on a pair of socks using yarn that I dyed.
I love how the heel went to perfect stripes
I also dyed some more yarn on Thursday night, I needed something fun to do while I was missing knitting at JS.
Using knitpicks dye your own wool of the andes and food dyes from smart & final first I did a hank of blue. All blue dye with a little water, maybe 1 cup.
I cooked it on the stovetop this time instead of the microwave & I think the results were great!
Second I did a yucky hank that we tried to dye caramel & it all rinsed out so then we dyed it turquoise & it didn’t all take. So I used the leftover turquoise dye we had & didn’t even bother to hank it I was so tired of dealing with that damn yarn. If it worked, great, if not who cares!
And here they are completely dried. I ended up balling the blue & hanking the green so I could get the whole thing rinsed out. Once again the brighter blue is blown out in the picture, it’s not actually that bright but I couldn’t get a decent picture for the life of me. Can you see the variation in the colors in the green hank? I love how it turned out.
Have I mentioned that I hate my camera lately? That photo is fantastic! The one above, not so much. oh well
Today Tracy is coming over for some machine knitting, shhhh, it’s a surprise what she is making. You will have to wait for her post! I am going to work solely on the fair isle yoke. I think the colors are going to work out well. I am kind of fudging with them as I go along. Once it’s farther along I will get a (good) picture posted of progress.
If the whole sweater turns out well I may just post a pattern of the kureyon & the fair isle for free, we’ll see!