My undyed sock yarn arrived a week or so ago, and it's a lot!
According the the website it's 338 meters per 100 grams, so this is just over 5 kilometres of yarn! I thought at that yardage it would be on the thicker side, but it's not. It's just normal, ordinary merino / nylon sock yarn. The cone says it's Patonyle, but that doesn't match that yardage. Mysterious.
I started skeining it up immediately, because that's a task that feels tedious when I just want to dye the yarn!
Some mini skeins for practice and my sock yarn blanket, and the rest for some jumpers I've got planned for Leon and for me.
I'm going to work on dying more subtly, and mixing colours, rather than just smacking on as many full strength colours as possible, which is my usual, very enjoyable way of doing things!
But the next thing I'm going to dye is rainbow yarn for the Tracey vest, so that will be about colour mixing, but will not be about subtly.
I was planning to do the dying this weekend, but it's looking like I'm going to spend my craft time this weekend making more masks, which is all for the good. I certainly don't need any of the yarn I'm going to dye for my next 3 projects, but the dying has a satisfaction all of it's own.
According the the website it's 338 meters per 100 grams, so this is just over 5 kilometres of yarn! I thought at that yardage it would be on the thicker side, but it's not. It's just normal, ordinary merino / nylon sock yarn. The cone says it's Patonyle, but that doesn't match that yardage. Mysterious.
I started skeining it up immediately, because that's a task that feels tedious when I just want to dye the yarn!
Some mini skeins for practice and my sock yarn blanket, and the rest for some jumpers I've got planned for Leon and for me.
I'm going to work on dying more subtly, and mixing colours, rather than just smacking on as many full strength colours as possible, which is my usual, very enjoyable way of doing things!
But the next thing I'm going to dye is rainbow yarn for the Tracey vest, so that will be about colour mixing, but will not be about subtly.
I was planning to do the dying this weekend, but it's looking like I'm going to spend my craft time this weekend making more masks, which is all for the good. I certainly don't need any of the yarn I'm going to dye for my next 3 projects, but the dying has a satisfaction all of it's own.
I know what you mean about making masks vs crafting for pleasure. I too need to make more masks. It made me feel industrious and in control when I made the first two. Which is ridiculous, because I'm not in control of anything! - except perhaps my crafting time.
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