However the boredom and lack of activity will be catching up with me shortly. A friend of mine (local knitter and dyer extraordinaire) is moving and got rid of a few one-shot dyes. She offered them- I accepted and am now bitten... This new hobby could get quite dangerous- especially since I have the desire to play with colors more and not knit! So far I've dyed two skeins of sock yarn- one a lovely blue-green, one a deep purple. Here they are:
Here's where it gets sticky... I loooove the purple (the photos do NOT do the intensity and depth of color justice). I've decided that this summer I want to really focus on color work and have a very cool pair of socks in mind. It's a fair isle pattern that uses self-striping yarn and a solid to create the effect of lots of different yarns. I've been searching for the perfect self-striping for a while. I dragged my poor mother to 6 yarn shops in the past 2 days!
Finally, at Lovelyarns in Hamden, I found the perfect BRIGHT striping yarn.
Now I have to decide if I want to knit it against black, or the new purple I dyed... I had been walking around with the purple at the yarn shops- and several expressed interest in the yarn... Lovelyarns said if I wanted to dye and sell- she'd be happy to have some. And that's all the encouragement I needed. Now I'm doing all the research to see if this is a feasible adventure... Who knows! Next update will surely address this new idea...
