Sun 3 Dec 2006
Drive By Spammage
Posted by heather under demon cat, giftmas, dyeing, spinning
Just a quickie picture post before I plop down in front of the tv to work on ornaments. The holiday cheer is out in full force this weekend…it pretty much hit me overnight as last week I was rather apathetic about the whole Christmas thing. I have a feeling i’m going to drive Chris bananas before i’m done, heh.

First up, some newly dyed roving. Wilton Icing Dyes + the dishwasher? Love. I like that I could pop them in the dishwasher and let it do its magic while I was out running errands. This is all going to be ornaments, most likely in the form of felted balls.

Ah, my very first handspun. It is absolutely horrid, but i’m going to work it into ornaments as well. Eventually, i’m sure i’ll look back on it with something similar to fondness.

My first batch of kool-aid dyed sock yarn. This was ridiculously fun to do…I set up a warp board so I could make it self striping then mixed kool-aid packets with wild abandon. The colorway annoyed me at first, but now the neon eye-bleedingness of it is growing on me. I can’t wait to knit it up, once I get all 500 yards untangled anyway. Damn cat.

Speaking of the damn cat, here he is napping on the sock yarn after he tangled it up. He loves wool more than catnip, and that’s saying a lot, considering he’s an absolute nip-junkie.

Sigh. Apparently, my purse is his new bed. If I leave it sitting on the bar for any amount of time, he crawls in and makes himself at home. He’s a brat.











December 15th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Love the cat! Just a warning though once you start dying and spinning your knitting production will decrease sharply! I started spinning this year and damn did that addiction hit hard. I still haven’t picked up a pair of needles (other than to teach my SIL how to knit recently)
December 26th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I’ve heard that from so many people! I’m hoping to try to keep myself a little balanced with it though…there are way too many gorgeous patterns out there to abandon my knitting altogether.