I achieved a major milestone today...
No.
Really.
I did.
I made it through the first chart on Chrysopolis. I'm still not sure what made it so hard at first, but I've been cruising along quite nicely now. Yesterday I even began knitting Chrysopolis while "watching" Crossing Jordan on the DVR.
Here she is, just after I completed the last row of Chart One.
Of course, she looks like all lace does before blocking....
but here she is stretched out a bit so you can see a hint of how she'll look when she's actually blocked.
Having achieved that milestone, I turned my kitchen into a dye studio. Mary came over with some alpaca she wanted to over dye, and a big pot and some Wilton's icing coloring dye. We spread newspapers all over the counter, followed by some plastic wrap and began our adventure.
We mixed up some purple dye and dumped three hanks of some steely gray alpaca/silk into the pot to let it simmer while we turned our attention to some pale blue alpaca/silk that Mary found too ... well... twee and boring to knit her planned Mystic Waters Mystery shawl out of.
We mixed up some teal and some royal blue. Sometimes we followed the rules:
sometimes I didn't:
That ball of yarn is the lat 25 g of my moebius yarn. I'd found that when knit, the yarn made unpleasant stripes of pink and pale green, that after weeks of trying to love, I still despised. They'd looked okay in the hank, and even in the ball.... but in the moebius they striped in a rather horrid way. So, I used the teal and some blue to paint over the finished moebius, turning it into something I like MUCH better.
Here sits the moebius, steaming in the bowl that helped it take its tour through the microwave
(When the moebius itself is all nice and dry, I'll show you that too....)
And that lovely blue stuff? Even better after it's steam bath
Oh, and that ball of yarn...
when unwound from it's dyed ball, it looked like this:
I love it! Now ... what can I do with 25 g of sportweight yarn???
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