The Dye O Rama had close to 280 participants, and almost 40 different donated prizes for a raffle drawing that was conducted at the end. Much to my surprise, I actually won something ( Read more... )

My 'secret pal' for the Dye O Rama swap was Tess of http://wildgeese.blogs.com

She sent me an absolutely gorgeous yarn, dyed with Wilton's violet, aqua, and cornflower blue, that she named Oceana Wannabe:


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I finished the yarn! I ordered two skeins of Knit Picks dye-your-own sock weight merino wool yarn. Because of the way they were skeined they tangled very easily. The first skein I used to make small sample skeins to test my dyeing (using Wilton's dyes). The second I rather laboriously wound into a ball (tangle city!) then wrapped around the ( Read more... )

A meme for the Dye-O-Rama swap
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In a fit of insanity I signed up for a yarn swap. Dye-O-Rama to be precise. It is a 'dye your own sock yarn' swap. I sensibly signed up for the "WTF" rather then the "I'm experienced" group, having not really done any dyeing more complicated then plopping fiber into kool aid. The irony here is that I've never crocheted a sock (though I did ( Read more... )