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At last, a little sunshine. I spent a little while in the yard enjoying it, and working on this:

Pomotomus gloves in my overdyed Baby Ull. My first attempt at a ”fancy” stitch pattern; it was slow going at first, but I am getting the hang of it now. There are quite a few mistakes that I just left, and some rows that I had to rip back when I totally lost track.  

While I knit; the sun took care of these; 75 tie dyed shirts. A little behind schedule as it was so cold this weekend. I will wash them up tomorrow.

These are Kona superwash (red-orange) and overdyed Baby Ull. The Baby Ull was left over from the Baby Max squid hat. Baby Ull comes in pretty enough colors, but a little bland I think. I reskeined the green and overdyed it with green and turquoise Procion. I left two balls of light blue in their original skeins and overdyed them to a very dark color and a very pale color (above with purple also).

I am going to continue experimenting with Procion as I have a tie-dye project with 5th graders this week and will no doubt have some more leftovers.

Here is the sock yarn I dyed with the leftover Easter egg dye knitted up. I started the second sock with the other end of the ball and then knitted them both up together. This worked out very well; I didn’t have to guess at the half way point of the yarn. Obviously I need more yarn to finish this project; I think I will dye it the dark purple and finish in a solid color.