For the third time in a row...

...it's all about the color.  Outside my window, everything is white and gray right now, but inside I still have these:
A few weeks ago,  Christy had a dye day again.  This was probably one of the quietest ones I can remember, with no indigo on the ceiling, no mad spatterings, and we only shorted out the entire house's electrical system once.  But we got some lovely colors nonetheless, and some formerly lily-white hands are now covered with dyes, so it was, as usual, a smashing success.

These are a pair of sock blanks, which were a birthday present for me, and started the day off pristine white.  I believe Christy ordered a bunch directly from Nancy Roberts, who conveniently has an artcle in the latest issue of Spin-Off on the process.  I just know they're great fun to fingerpaint -- okay, not literally, but I did consider it.  I made them messy on purpose (no, really), and love the way they're knitting up, though I'd love to see how Linda's ever-so-neat ones will turn out. 

(I started out calling these Fraternal Socks, but my children have dictated that they are really Pippi Longstocking socks.  So be it.)

Next, on the right, in a photo taken before the world turned white, two skeins of Brown Sheep sock yarn, painted with a bunch of different dyes, then steamed and washed.  I say Brown Sheep sock yarn, but they're actually each a 4 oz. skeins of seconds, so each hank will more than make a pair of socks.  I'm still not sure the colors are bright enough.  I am a major fan of intense color for my feet.  I'm convinced they stay warmer that way.

And one more:

I have no clue what red this is, or what combination of blues -- as usual at Christy's, I wait till the end and make stone soup out of whatever's left lying around.  The brown is Caramel, though, because it's fast becoming my favorite brown, and I wanted to show Christy why she needed to go out and buy some yesterday (because, after all, she doesn't really have enough dyestuffs).

I'm spindle spinning this on campus, as I walk from class to class, and am becoming slightly notorious as the spinning lady, which is fine by me.  My one regret is that, even spindle spinning, it's going way too fast, and I should have dyed more.  Of everything. 

Ah, well.  There's always next time.

Comments

[Nancy]

I can barely manage to spindle spin standing still in my living room, let alone walking along dodging other people, not tripping over the molecule of air that happened to be in front of me. You are quite the multitasker! You should get an award for that :)

[Christy]

Reading this has me wanting to pull out the dyepots and have a go! 50s is warm enough to do this isn't it? :)

Christy