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Labels: babylonglegs, hand dyed, sock yarn, trade, WIN


As much as I love doing space~dyeing in bold and bright colours, sometimes I do actually yearn subtlety...yes, believe it or not, I DO ;)
A friend of mine needed a little boost recently, so I made her a "Doodie" out of a skein of Radiance. "Doodie" is a pattern from WoollyWormhead's Wee Woolly Toppers Children's Hats Book....really easy to size up for an adult, in fact all I did was change the yarn..... :)
I was so in love with the style, I made one for me too, out of some handspun :) No bobble on mine though, bit of a crown decrease FAIL......lolz.....Labels: aran, handknit, handspun, knitting for me, Radiance
Well, I gave a skein to a friend of mine, and she made this for herself !!! Isn't it just beautiful??? So organic, like it's evolving and changing right before your eyes.

This is the far end of the studio. In the left corner is where my new Tea urn will live, for boiling water to mix dyes and, of course, cups of tea and coffee :) Under the worktop in the corner is where all my pans will live, and I do have quite a few...I can see a dyebath destash coming in the near future....lolz
All Hail the Shameless Cooker!!!
This is the dyeing area, there's room on the Shameless Cooker for 2 big dish kettle and then a smaller one on the fish kettle burner in the middle :) Husbeast is fashioning me a hanging rack system as I type...so I can dip~dye 1.2 kg of yarn in one go, should I need to...whereas in my kitchen it was 400g at a time... hehehe......awesome! When the oven is fixed, I'll be able to dye 400g of fibres in there at a time, as opposed to 100g in my kitchen oven...
This is going to be the admin area, where I will store all my finished yarns and packing/labelling supplies, and do all my packing :)
I am so pleased with it, and have been itching to get in there for weeks!! Husbeast still needs to finish the painting this weekend, and the builder wants to come back and grout the floor tiles....not sure I'll be able to vacate it for longer than a day though :(.........and I will donate what you would have paid to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for their brilliant work in Haiti......