I’ve been a little under the weather, but have kept up with my knitting, dyeing and crocheting and have some updates for you!

Listed randomly:

1. I crocheted a pink hat with a new pearl-like worsted-weight wool I might  be selling in my shop. I wasn’t fond of the pink (it was a sample skein from the factory) and so attempted to dye it black after I had crocheted it.

Here it is before, along with some other things I’ll tell you about in a minute, all pre-dyeing:

knitted and crocheted hat and leg warmers

And the hat after dyeing:

crocheted hat pattern black

Mmmm. Not such a good idea. You can still see spots of pink poking through. Sooo I’m still debating on what to do. I could rip it out, dye the yarn and re-crochet it. Or make something else. I even thought about using a black magic marker to fill in the few pink places that didn’t dye. I could dye it again, just stretching it in the dye bath to make sure it all dyes. This is probably what I’ll do.

Pattern: My own. I started to write it down, but like every pattern I think I’m going to publish, I end up stopping and just working away, thinking I’ll write it all down later. Then I don’t.

2. I dyed some charcoal gray yarn (the undyed version is in the picture shown above) and am in the process of making a Honey Cowl:

The yarn:

gray baby llama yarn The start of the cowl:

gray llama knitted honey cowl pattern

I’m LOVING IT. The yarn is a baby llama dk weight from Plymouth that I dyed myself using my new acid dyes. I’m wildly in love with gray right now. And this yarn feels so super soft that it’s pretty heavenly to work with. (The blue yarn is just a stitch marker to mark the beginning of my round.)

3. I dyed this yarn after spinning it. It’s a lb of wool (can’t remember the type as I lost the sticker) that was originally a tan color, as you can see… here it is soaking down into the dye pot.

brown wool being dyedAnd after dyeing it gray:

gray hand spun yarn wool

No plans for this yet.

4. I dyed this light gray baby llama dk. Same yarn as before. It’s drying. Secret plans for this.

pale gray baby llama dyed wool for knitting

5. I had made these leg warmers on my knitting machine a few years ago, but never really wore them much due to the tan color. I dyed them (can you guess?) charcoal gray and am wildly in love with them. I think they will look ADORABLE poking out of my winter boots. I wanna make more!!!

gray hand knitted leg warmers knitting machine

6. I started this Heather Hoodie Vest awhile back and realized I had messed up the cable pattern. I ripped out just around where the mistakes were and am attempting to fix the mistakes, but I’m reminded why I haven’t completed more of this. The yarn is delightful, but when combined with this small of a needle (US7), it hurts the dickens out of my arms, hands and wrists. So I might just rip it out and forget it.

knitting heather hoodie vest

7. I started spinning some qiviut, which is muscox down. It is quite expensive and super luxurious. It is pretty darn close to heaven! It’s so soft that I can barely feel it on my skin. I only have an ounce and want to make the Yarn Harlot’s Pretty Thing Cowl, so I’m doing a really thin single, in order to make a lace-weight double. You can see my single here. Or can you? 🙂

hand spinning qiviut

8. I placed an order for 55 lbs of the most delicious light fingering weight merino yarn from the factory. It should arrive in a few weeks and then I’ll get to dyeing, and taking pictures and listing it all in the shop. How exciting!

9. I’m on the road to recovering, I’m happy to say (just had a super sore throat and stuffy nose and been pretty tired… for about a month now), so I should be able to keep you updated more frequently!!! I always have a ton of projects and things happening yarn-wise and love to share!!

I did have a question on the pattern for the outside circles on my crocheted gradient scarf, so here is the picture again if you missed it and the pattern for the outside circles:

*Slip Stitch into the chain 1 space at the center of one of the petals. Chain 9.** Repeat from * to ** around.

Chain 2, dc in next chain. *Chain 3, skip 2 chains, dc in each of next 2 chains.** Repeat from * to ** around. End with a chain 3 and slip stitch into the second chain at the beginning of the round.

Change color if desired.

Join with a *slip stitch between any two  dc’s. (3 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in next chain 3 space.** Repeat from * to ** around. Join with a slip stitch. Fasten off.

(The inside of each motif is a pattern I found online… more info on the link above).

 

I hope you’ve been keeping busy with your knitting or crocheting projects!

I’ll post more as I have it!