dinner is served!

Yarn. It's what's for dinner.

Would you like some mixed greens with that?

quick, go take a look!

Run over to Melanie's and see what I got to do last Sunday! It's the link entitled "our wee farm". Right there on the sidebar.

Pictures of the yarn I dyed coming very soon.

I am much less intimidated by the dyeing process now, the hard part is choosing the colors....so for my second skein, I kinda chickened out.

Pictures on Saturday. I still have to make an entire sweater.

that was fun!

All you fiber experts can call me a dork, but I finally dyed some yarn.

Cooking away:



I used Jaquard acid dyes, and this one is called Burnt Orange. The yarn is 1.5 lbs of 50% alpaca, 50% wool.

Pretty bright in the pictures, actually looks more pumpkin-y. Plus the little halo you get from the alpaca takes the glow down a couple of notches.

I see a cable sweater in my future. I have 15oo yards!

The supplies came from dharmatrading.com, the place where I've bought my silk painting supplies for years. They started carrying some yarn and I though what the heck? Why not.

Of course now all I want to do is dye more yarn. This is way too much fun.

But I have a lot of commissioned work to do this week, so it'll have to wait....