Jaywalker socks

Pattern : Jaywalker by Grumperina for Magknits

Yarn: 4 balls of Merino Bambino that I dyed myself

Ravelry link here

I am so pleased with these socks! so pleased in fact, that i am entering them into the Mount Gambier show. I am really surprised that the yarn striped as well as it did. I would like to do some more yarn dyeing in the holidays perhaps, but this time I think I might use acid dyes.

I haven't mentioned it yet, but I am on ravelry! I have been for months now. I just haven't got around to telling. If you would like to 'friend me' my username is beckydee.

oh, and I have been buying lots of buttons.............

Attack of the Pink Fluffy Mohair

I am swimming in pink knitting and yarn! have a look:

A whole three bags (30 balls!) of cleckheaton mohair 12 ply gifted to me by a friend who had another friend who was moving house and didn't want it anymore. Long live free yarn!

Remember this? Well it's been frogged. I decided after sitting in my drawer for two months without a single outing, it was time to turn it into something new. A teaser shot, can you guess what it is??

remember this experiment with jelly dyeing?? Well it's knitting up really well! I am so pleased with the colours and the stripes! The sock is a little known pattern called Jaywalker. I doubt you've heard of it ;).

Burn, Baby Burn

It's musical year again at my school and auditions were held last week for 'Disco Inferno' which is set in the mid-1970's. This year I was casted as a back-up singer and 'voice coach'. I am not quite sure what being a voice coach involves but I get to make up all the harmonies all three back-up singers, including myself. I am very excited!

Knitting has been going slowly due to the sudden influx of due dates and exams. At the moment knitting has been my stress release time more than anything. Thermal is making some progress still and I am quite excited about the finished product:

I also jelly-dyed some more merino bambino. I followed Eunny's tutorial for making self-striping yarn. I am not sure how 'self-striping' it's going to be but it will have some nice colour graduations. The pink is raspberry jelly, the dark pink is port wine jelly and the yellow is the original colour of the yarn. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

More jelly dyeing and yarn buying

I bought some new yarn! theis pencil roving has been specially dyed for me in 'chocolate' by the knittery.

I am going to make this (the hat) with it:

After the recent success of my jelly dyeing i thought i'd have another shot but this time using 2 differnt colours; lime and strawberry flavoured jelly. I found 4 balls of white cygnet 'wool rich' sock yarn . I am very pleased with how this experiment turned out!

Just out of the microwave:

Soaking ................

dry.........

eh viola! I love this yarn! cant wait to knit some socks out of it!