Marigold Progress

Here's my marigold progress so far. I am loving the pattern and the yarn.
Unfortunately the sock is tight across the top of my ankle (the bendy spot), I think it's because I started the heel too soon. I may need to frog, add a repeat or two to the foot and redo the heel.



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I guess I should add some details. The sock is Marigold from Flint Knits and the yarn is Knit Picks Bare hand dyed by me (and Elah).

More Dyeing

Last night Elah and I overdyed some Lamb's Pride bulky (oatmeal) we had. I used a ratio of 3 parts blue to 1 part red.
The plan is to use it, and some Gedifra Donatella we'll dye green tonight, to make a dog sweater for E's gram's new dog.

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Here's the same yarn in the late afternoon light; this is more accurate:

Marigold

I set out to dye the yarn I couldn't find for the Marigold socks. I was a little nervous having only ever dyed with Kool-Aid before but I figured that I could always overdye any disaster with dark blue. I started with some Knit Picks bare, some acid dye, directions from Adrian and a dream. My whole apartment smells like wet wool and silk but it was totally worth it. I love this yarn!

Observe:


You can see more of the process here.
The quick and dirty:

• 1 tsp of yellow sun
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 190° for 20-ish minutes
• a drizzle of a strong (only dye and vinegar) burnt orange solution
• a few more minutes
• a cool down period
• a couple of rinses
• time to dry

Dudes Love The Nail Salon

Case in point:


We got our nails done on Friday, a special occasion since it was Elah's first manicure.

She picked her own colors and everything.

In actual knitting news, I am about to embark on a dyeing expedition.

I'll be using the dyes and yarn (and dye kit from hello yarn) to make my own colorway for the Marigold Socks. Wish me luck!

Also, a coworker had a sweater at work hat I love. Very simple but with an interesting
stitch pattern in a couple of places. I took a pic because I wanted to look at the stictches but unfortunately, I am not good and discerning such info from a picture.

Anyone know what's going on here? You can see the whole sweater here.

I'm trucking right along on the Cable Twist socks and should will have a picture later, after I take the time to pull it off my camera. Maybe I'll even have some yarn to show you.

Recipe For A Kool Night

1. Gather your ingredients.


2. Find a good helper


3. Watch your helper ham it up for the camera.


4. Watch that your helper doesn't help herself to the camera when you're not looking (though she does take a decent yarn shot).



5. Wash, rinse...


6. Repeat



The yarn, the Kool-Aid and some size 11 needles were a Solstice gift to Elah this (last) year. She picked the colors for our Kool-Aid dyeing; we used 2 packets of Strawberry, 2 packets of grape and, for the turquoise, one packet of arctic green apple and one packet of berry blue. We followed the tutorial on Knitty, microwave method. Elah plans to knit a hat.