Comments | sandykins57: Dyeing to go to London

sandykins57

Dyeing to go to London

May 25, 2011 21:59

This past weekend, I made a quick turn around trip to London. My friend, K, and I took a yarn dyeing class from our friend, Alice (aka Socktopus). I slept at K's house, then Sunday at noon, I headed to the airport and back to Sweden. I dyed 4 skeins of sock yarn that day. One of them was specifically the colors that my husband requested. Can you ( Read more... )

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tysolna May 25 2011, 20:09:41 UTC

The colours are absolutely gorgeous!

Mid-July? ... Oooh Easyknits and Sparkleduck will be there... You temptress you! :-D

sandykins57 May 25 2011, 20:14:38 UTC

I expect you to be there! Did you check out the classes, too? It's going to be so awesome! I'm taking two classes and volunteering the rest of the time.

tysolna May 25 2011, 20:21:02 UTC

I am checking the classes, the one about fabrics sounds intriguing (they all do, in fact!), I might even take it.

sandykins57 May 25 2011, 20:25:03 UTC

Yay! Let me know what you sign up for and we'll do lunch that day or something.

anonymous May 25 2011, 23:12:08 UTC

Nice yarns! Wish I would be good at dying too. (I'm not)

Elin

sandykins57 May 26 2011, 08:47:45 UTC

I'm not that good at it, either. I just threw together colors that I liked and it turned out fairly okay. My husband liked his yarn, too. Now I just need to knit socks out of it for him.

fun! ms_jacket May 25 2011, 23:16:35 UTC

I haven't really written much about the fact that I learned how to knit and crochet in the last two years and I've been helping out in my children's handwork classes.

I took a few dyeing classes this winter and loved it. I have a gorgeous peachy color that I made and I still haven't decided what I'm going to make with it. What I was really interested in was the natural dyes. It was so fun! Now I'm hoping to learn some spinning. :-D

Your beautiful yarns are making me long for dyeing and knitting again.

Re: fun! sandykins57 May 26 2011, 08:45:49 UTC

Wonderful! Are you a member of Ravelry (www.ravelry.com)?

I've also started learning to spin on a spindle. I've only just started and will be taking a class at Knit Nation this summer. I swore I would NEVER spin, because I knew what a slippery slope it would be. Oh well, never say never.