ProjectArt

 I tried dyeing some sock yarn with left over Procion and yellow food color left over from the Easter eggs. The purple Procion resulted in a dull blue on the wool yarn, but when I added some fuchsia I got a lovely dark purple. The fuchsia and yellow produced a bright orange; traffic cone orange in fact. Not the color I wanted in my socks, but I did enjoy its brilliance. I overdyed with a little blue and got a lovely tangy color that I am afraid this photo does not do justice to. The other skein has the original orange and blue, but then ovedyed with fuchsia in one part and then a mix of blue and orange to mute the overall color. The result was a nice autumn foliage blend; again this photo does it no credit.

I wound the yarn into long skeins - clear across the room so that I would get broad stripes and not a blotchy look in the final sock.

Then, because its not over til its knitted; I immediately started a sock. The stripes were about the width I wanted, but the colors are a little dark. Also there is not enough yarn for a complete sock; not even one I think.

My LYS did not have size 1 metal double points so I purchased this needle and tried Magic Loop; easy to do as it turns out, but I do like double points and the little tent shape they make as you knit!

It is so much fun to dye, but it takes so long to knit! 

The two newest members of the family; Gaia and Ganesha. These two sweet Lop bunnies were given to us by a friend. They are settling in and going to work on our overgrown yard.

Cascarones! We had about 500 total this year! I dyed them with left over procion dyes for the most part. With a little vinegar they dyed very well. Very good color with fuchsia and a mixed purple. Turquoise was bright but easily scraped off; more research is needed to know if it was the color itself or that particular vinegar-dye ratio.

I finished my two week soundboard quilt residency. The students were fifth graders and the theme was Colonial America. It was very difficult working with the soundboard fabric. There was no time to sew it, and it was hard to iron so fusible web didn’t work well. Elmer’s didn’t stick to it. We finally used hot glue (the safer lower temperature kind) and that worked OK. Each quilt is 45 inches tall. After spring break we will get them up on the walls.

Great school; very accomodating teachers and well behaved kids!