I’m so behind in bloglines! Yikes – over 300 again… If you have or know of a contest you’d like mentioned, please send an email to chris at this domain, since I probably won’t find out about it until it’s over at this rate. Thanks! (On the positive side, I will have new knitting to show you very soon!)
Reading Update
To Catch a Cat by Marian Babson. Just a generic mystery that I read to pass the time while knitting. I wouldn’t recommend it or read it again, although I’ll probably pass it on to Jeanne because the cat on the cover looks like her Greta.
Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, and Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris. I started to read the Southern Vampire series over the weekend and I’m hooked! I love the characters – telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse, the Vampire Bill, the Vampire Bubba, Sam the were-collie… These are set in a small town in northern Louisiana (near Shreveport). Hopefully the library has the next one…
Ok, I promised pictures of the yarn I dyed at Deb’s last Thursday. Behold the skein that contains no black, purple, or pink!
Of course, it looked much better when it was reskeined – this is 800 yards of the KnitPicks Dye Your Own laceweight, using Country Classics dyes (buttercup, pumpkin, butterscotch, and a mixture of greens that I’ve forgotten).
Here’s a skein of Wool2Dye4’s sock yarn, dyed with key lime, kiwi, and raven:
Deb picked up one of Louet’s mini dyeing kits and let me play with it. The kit came with three colors of Gaywool dye (blueberry, cornflower, and silverbirch), along with some GEMS Pearl. We passed this yarn onto Jeanne, since she couldn’t join us on Thursday.
May practices her yarn inspecting technique:
And just so you know that you’re still at the right blog, I did dye a skein with some purple and black – this is Wool2Dye4’s sock yarn, dyed with wild iris, charcoal, and raven.
May was apparently exhausted from her yarn inspection.
Ooh.. “harvest” laceweight! how beautiful! I was starting to worry I was in the wrong place until I saw the purple and the black cats though.. hee hee.
Great dyeing…………..love the kitty picture. I wanted to do something similar with the weiners, but they wouldn’t cooperate……..
He’s really turning into quite the charmer kitty, isn’t he? “I love you, Mayhem, will you go out with me when you’re old enough? I love you, Mayhem!” -Chaos
That laceweight looks rather cabin cove-ish!
And I am tempted by one of these louet kits of course…… Aieeee.
The two catchen look happy together! This is a very good thing indeed.
As usual, wonderful job on the dyeing. I am a little shocked to see the fall colors – it’s just so unexpected from you!! Did you have fun on the Treasure Hunt? Sounds like I missed out on all the meet ups – although I did see the same woman at a bunch of our stops and we had fun laughing about who was following who.
Hey, inspecting yarn is a tough job. 🙂
Nice colors! I think the green and the purple are my favorites.
I want to be a kitten and have a big kitty wash me. It looks so soothing. Like massage.
Oh, how cute is that!! (The yarn is pretty, too — good job!)
Have you begun Mermaid?
Great job on the dyeing but green? Lovely but totally unexpected!
Oh I love the yellowish yarn. It looks like the soup I made this weekend.
Gorgeous, gorgeous colours there. I’m impressed with the sheer quantity and variety of dye jobs you did! No wonder you are behind on bloglines 😉
beautiful dye jobs! i love the bright blue, and the lime and raven, esp. Chaos’ tummy troubles all gone? He sure looks all rejuvenated.
Those are beautiful! Well done you – I love the purple and black 🙂
I, too, love Sookie. It will either please or appall you to hear HBO signed a deal to develop this into a series (with the guy that did 6 Feet Under). Yarn looks lovely, I will have to try that dying thing one of these days.
ohhhh I loove your new dye jobs! I’m glad to see you branching out from your normal domain of colours. They look great!
I few more posts by you about the joys of dying, and I might have to try it!
Awwww, May sure has it good, doesn’t she?
No, really, I can type my own name…
Fantastic dyeing. I’m soooo happy to see pics of Chaos grooming May. Mine don’t touch each other, except for a spat. :-\
Lovely colors — I especially like the golds and the greens, although that blue is yummy, too. I just got some Knit Picks sockweight Bare last week — sooooo soft!
The yarn is beautiful.
The yarns are gorgeous!
You had me worried there for a minute when I didn’t see any purple:) Everything is gorgeous, but I bet you can guess which one I like best;) I do like the greens and raven one too though and I usually don’t care for greens too much.
Great job!
Lace Yarn = Drool
I’m so jealous of all the beautiful yarn you dye.
OOoo, beautiful yarns!
OH beautiful job at dyeing. I particularly like the first skein of lace-weight you showed.
Chaos, your such a good big brother making sure May is nice and clean.
Look at you go! Next you’ll be selling it!
Oh, I lvoe that first one. Just beautiful!
Beautiful stuff!
I’m having a “guess my blogiversary” contest.
Looks to me like Chaos is adjusting just fine! 😉
That first skein is perfect for fall. Although the second is my personal favorite. So soothing!
Those colours ROCK! I love the greens!
Hey, you have a Mermaid kit? Well, when you do decide to work on her, let me know, maybe we can do a KAL of sorts. I have it in the apple green/blues (surprised?!).
All your yarns are gorgeous!!!
Those cats…..you really know how to pick the ones with personality just oozing out of ’em :o)
Pretty yarns!
Really, you should warn us before posting such kitty cuteness. I could’ve fallen and hit my head or something, please post an appropriate warning next time.
Oh the pictures turned out so pretty – I can almost smell those fall colors. I’ll have to post mine – soon I guess!
Oh good, I thought you’d love the Sookie Stackhouse books! You should try CHarlaine Harris’ other series as well – Shakespeare’s Landlord, Shakespeare’s Trollop, etc.
That laceweight is gorgeous. Whatcha gonna knit with it?
May’s not doing too good at looking indignant during bathtime – I have a sneaking suspicion that she purrs when she things noone’s watching!
I’m so behind in Bloglines too…ack!
I love the yarn; it’s all very pretty. And that last picture? 1. 2. 3. AWWWW….
Chris,
All of your yarn is beautiful and the kitty pictures too.
The yarn looks great! What a good kitty mom you are, dying special yarn for them to play with!
Lovely yarn, and love the last picture! How did the hunt go? (Must add these Southern Vampire books to my list, looks interesting/fun.)
Oooooh, love the yarn!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but,
May is growing fast and she is going to be a big kitty.
Go back and look at some of the early photos when she was tiny and look at the current photos.
How is the gorgeous boy’s butt?
Gorgeous dye jobs!
Gorgeous socks!
Now I’m half tempted to get some sock yarns and dye. My husband would protest big time. Tee hee.
love the one with the buttercup and pumpkin
and it looks like Mayhem and Chaos are fast buddies now 🙂
Lovely colors!
You’ve been having fun with dyeing again! (holy crap! Thanks for reminding me I had yarn in the crockpot simmering away! Egads! I forgot all about it!)
Heh. Your harvest colourway reminded me that I had done some green/khaki stuff and just as I started to comment I had to dash out in the dark in my bare footsies taking on the evil spiders that are building webs across the paths (already) out to the garage to find the yarn safe. Phew! Thanks!
Gorgeous yarns! I’m relieved to see there really is a bit of purple and black…and those cats! Too cute!
(((hugs)))
Those colors are just so pretty!
It’s nice to see May sharing the responsibility of yarn inspection. There’s definately enough yarn to require a second inspector in your house.
Looks like they are becoming friends. Of course Chaos has to make it look like May is a bother but with all that grooming it’s obvious he’s decided she’s ok after all.
That yarn is gorgeous! I particularly like the purple and black;) How do you guys dye? Do you use a crockpot or turkey cooker or something else? Your dye jobs always look great.
Oooh. I love the fall yarn but they’re all really pretty.
It’s so sweet that Chaos gives May a bath. Our cats would never do that.