A busy weekend

Sill no word from Curious yarns, I think I may have to wave goodbye to the money I spent there. I rate my chances of getting it back as slim to none.

However to cheer myself up I have been having a very productive weekend. The undyed sock yarn arrived yesterday, and I promptly got to dyeing it. This was my first real go at dyeing, but always one to try something new, I went against convention, and did not use Kool aid, food colouring, or proper dye. As Iwanted some boyish, subtle colours, I decided to use tea and coffee to get some nice brown tones. I also added some roving that I had into the coffee pot, and here are the results. I have to say I'm very pleased.

This is the drying skein

And this is the roving, I've photographed it next to some undyed so you can see the difference

This is what it looked like re-skeinedAnd this is the half finished socks it is making
I then decided that it was time the spare bedroom / craft room had a makeover, So after a long tidy up, some furniture shifting, and some stash re-organisation, it now looks like this

These are my fabric and hand knit stash,
My machine knitting stash

and project corner in the living room

And finally I went to my LYS, to buy some new DPN's and came away with 6 balls of Debbie Bliss DK cotton, as I decided I wanted to knit the shrug from the Erika knits classics book in a different colour (I did the first in baby pink Debbie Bliss Cathay) It's a lovely summer shade of dark blue and I can't wait to get started on it.

This purchase also lead me to the conclusion that I am going to gracefully bow out of the stashalong. Although part of me knows I need to de-stash, when it comes down to it I simply don't want to, so that's that. Phew, time for a cup of tea I think!