Knitting Socks For A Friend

Started knitting one of the sock blanks that Janice dyed. I couldn't wait to see how it would turn out. She loved dying the yarn, and I will love knitting it into socks for her.

Some Dying Results

Sock blanks were dyed along with skeins of Alpaca/silk sock yarn at the dye workshop held this past weekend. It look like I am about ready to begin knitting socks and more socks, and did I mention..... socks!



Sock blanks dyed by Janice drying on the back porch.

 

Four skeins of sock yarn and one skein of lace weight yarn dyed by me.

 

Dying to Play With Color!

Wool and Silk were the fibers of choice. Sock yarn and warp or weft yarns were dyed. Some were overdyed and others 'smushed' and others 'sprinkled'.

Diane from Morning Moon Alpacas got us started with a great demo.



Choices, choices..... what color do I want?



Turquoise to begin....



Overshot and Un-Weaving

Treadling and thinking sometimes don't go hand in hand. I was concentrating on keeping my shuttle colors in the correct order, that I forgot to change the order with the next repeat. It's interesting, but not what I am wanting. So I will be backing out, froggin, un-weaving or what ever you call it. ;-(

Overshot and Glitz

Found some glitz to try.

How about green warp, purple and gold weft? I think it will work. I am having problems with the warp breaking and I don't have an inch more of it. I may not be able to get the long runner I was hoping for. Time will tell.
(The motifs are really the same size. I had to tweak the camera angle so the glitz would show up.)

Guild Meeting!

We had some wonderful show and tell at Guild Meeting!   

Rugs.....scarves......coverlet......runners......cocoon wraps.......towels.........sori silk..........natural dying........ cotton........... chenille...........tencel...............linen...........wool............woven shibori....

We even had some hand felted earrings!

Among all this wonderful weaving we had time for a small program on Units, Profiles and Blocks.

Katie- Overshot coverlet, three panels!

Bo- Woven Shibori (one of my favorite techniques).



Overshot Side by Side #4

Here I am trying a dark purple and light green. It's OK, but nothing to write home about. The top one is the same green and 8/2 pink bamboo which makes the motifs a little more elongated. Since I am breaking several rules of traditional overshot, I guess I could break another!

I seem to be determined to use the dark purple as one of the weft colors. I guess deep down I want to use purple-green-orange. But I don't have any orange. Should I order some? I could dye some. It's a good thing that I put on eight yards.... sampling is fun!!!!!!

My end goal is to produce a runner that is five feet long to go on my kitchen table!