The fun stuff.

I had another good dye day yesterday, 6 lbs of wool roving, a little bit of ingeo, and some yarn(not pictured, but on my flickr), which means I spent all day today with stuff out on the line and me taking pictures. I updated my filckr site too. there are a lot of new pictures up now, I added a whole page and a half.



I have been working on another Jaywalker sock, but this one is for Babygurl. I'm adapting the pattern as I go so it will fit an infant size 7ish foot. once I have finished the first one I'll put the adapted pattern up here.




Here is some hand spun that I did not spin, but I dyed the roving! My friend Minnie spun it for me because I have a hard time getting any spinning done, let alone spinning fingering weight.
She made singles of the Viole(n)t and (B)Limey rovings, then plied them together.



This is the stuff that I spun, the first picture is some silk caps that I bought on my honeymoon(5 years ago). It was spun on a hand spindle then Navajo plied. The second photo is some tussah silk that I dyed they are each about 4oz the yellow and blue ones on the right I spun sometime before Babygurl was born, the green and purple were spun the Monday after Lillies while Babygurl was at Tante Yaya's house. I'll be knitting some Christmas stockings for us out of it, but probably wont get them done this year.



My garden is doing great! The cabbages are cabbageing, and the tomatoes are tomating, hopefully my tomatoes will get ripe this year. Last year they were still green when the frost hit.



The trip we took to visit grandma & grandpa's farm in the beginning of June? I think. Babygurl got to help feed the baby goats and she got to hold a baby kittie. She was really good with the kitten she didn't try to squeeze it or anything, she did give it lots of kisses.




AND NOW A SNEAK PEEK!!!!

The new Lime & Violet theme yarns I have been working on!
They are all self striping, and limited edition, they will be available only from the limenviolet.com shop , they probably wont be available for a couple of weeks as Miss V is seriously busy, but keep checking back.

THE END
(for today)

First jaywalkers finished!

First jaywalkers finished!
Originally uploaded by Dyeing Arts Tara

Finally finished these two ,or was it three weeks ago, and jus now have time to put up the pic's.

Here is babygurl's new craft apron I made yesterday morning.

and now for something completely different.

Lillies Pictures!

Survived Lillies!

I just got back to normal life after 10 days camping at an SCA Event called Lillies war. we had a blast it was a bit hot in the afternoons but we all survived. I have gotten the dishes and most of the laundry done, haven't unpacked the camera, so no pictures yet. Now I just have to survive the Midwest weavers conference and not having the babygurl for the week.

summer = crazy busy

Ever since May started it just seems like there is less time in the day even though it's daylight savings time. I've been dyeing some self stripeing yarns and some fibers, going on road trips, trying to get ready for a week long camping event, and gardening! I got some more pics up on flickr, and here is a video of babygurl dancin.

Deeesturbing!!!!

I came across this thought you all need to see it too!

Got it!

OK, so I got flickr as you will notice it's on the sidebar now. I've put up some of the pics that are in previous posts so you can see them better. I'm still working on uploading the others, but I'm getting tired and must watch the Gray's Anatomy 2 hour special tonight!

Warped

The warping board is finished, and has been warped! I used bolts instead of the metal rods because I didn't want to cut the rods, but I think I need to cut the tops off of the bolts on the single side so I can get the yarn off easier. The tops have to stay on the double side so I can get them in and out still.

Now I hope I wound the yarn correctly. I guess I'll find out after I dye it and knit a swatch. :)

I dyed some more angelina fiber along with some other yarns, they turned out much better than the first one. Maybe the heat setting was all it needed.

These are actually the colors they are supposed to be. :)

Apparently blogger won't let me put any more pictures in this post, so tomorrow I am going to learn how to use flicker. I will give the details of the rest of my dyeing then.