big batch of color

Summer storms! Random and abrupt. Also abrupt: the postal system! I spent the morning knitting a wee baby booty that didn’t end up so ‘wee’. Eh, babies grow, right? And after lunch I went out to find two packages on my doorstep. One containing yarn for Knit Picks that I will neither be using nor enjoy post-knit. The other box contained four pounds of top from Hello Yarn; 2 lbs Corriedale, 2 lbs BFL. I started with the Corriedale and split one pound into four 4 ounce hanks. While I was working on that, my order from R.H. Lindsay arrived, packed in a beer box, no less. That was 2 pounds Falklands top, which I split into 4 ounce hanks also. In total I dyed 2 pounds today. The most I’ve done in one day!! I needed to do this, since I haven’t updated the shop in quite some time and everyone seems to prefer the spinning fiber rather than my yarn.

I dyed these using three different techinques. Four were done on the stove top (hot pour, suppose) with lots of water in which to slosh around. Two were done by putting them in a casserole dish and baking them. Two were done in a crockpot. The last crockpot batch is still cooking as I type this. I had a difficult time choosing colors. I see lots of orange.