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Weekending - the one with the dyeing

I thought lock-down would mean I had nothing write about - but I have more to say than ever, and I feel like I am doing as much as ever, just in a more "at-home" way.

 This weekend we had a degustation dinner delivered - four courses with four matched beers, which we served to ourselves with elegance and style.

 Then, Sunday morning the weather was beautiful and Leon and I rode down Beach road to Sandringham. We ride a lot, but it's normally for transport or commuting. Melbourne is normally just too full of cars to make riding fun. Not during pandemic lockdown!

 The most fun fibre arts thing I did this weekend was to do some dyeing. I dyed the teal and navy yarn for hats yarn I talk about here. 
I also dyed some 20 gram skeins that will eventually go into a pair of Elizabeth Zimmerman's nether garments.

 I also tried to speckle dye some sock yarn for Joji's Flores Socks.  As far as speckle yarn goes they are a complete failure. As far as spectacular goes - you be the judge!

 And I received an order from Knit-Picks (my final outstanding yarn order for the moment) with more yarn to dye - for a colour work jumper, a colourwork vest and 200 grams of sock yarn, so some more fun to look forward to.

I hope you had a good weekend and that there was light in the darkness for you too. 
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  1. Jeannie Gray Knits21 April, 2020

    Ooh! I can't wait to see how the speckle failure yarn knits up. You used such pretty colors it's bound to be beautiful!

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