Winter 2019 Catchup

So one of the funnest things I did was take Heidi's yarn-dying class at Mobile Yarn. This was a natural-colored "blank" that I painted with a squirt bottle of dye. Apparently if you do half in one color, you'll end up with stripes that are predominantly that color....I surmise.

We wrapped them in Saran wrap and took them home to steam them for a few minutes...

Then you rinse it I believe - the instructions are around here somewhere...and allow to dry

then commence to knitting!

And here's sock #1 - beautiful!!!

And at some point Dean got a wild hair to run the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon 10K in New Orleans, so I trained exactly 1.5 weeks or so...

and actually finished with a halfway decent time and no injuries. It's fun to run in New Orleans!

Bands playing every so often, which is apparently why it has that name.

Meanwhile, prior to an 8 AM 5K downtown I actually HAD trained for, we woke up to a fire alarm brought on by this water leak that flooded the fire alarm in the laundry room....and Drew's room. Hello, new pipes!!!

Socks....Done!

Ta-da! Love these things. One has been washed and blocked, the other was just finished. You can tell this is hand-dyed yarn, since the new one is brighter...I guess, since I never used hand-dyed yarn before.


And no, I didn't drink gin while I was knitting...this particular sock. But that is a smaller version of the bottle my brother used to make a lamp for me - pictures coming on that this weekend.


And this is a T-shirt my sister fused a faux pocket made of the skirt fabric to, with the skirt I made - cute!


Now to resume the previously scheduled black mesh sweater which needs a sleeve correction. And also I will be making a lampshade for the above-mentioned gin lamp, possibly with the self-adhesive lampshades I found at Hobby Lobby - you apply your own fabric and trim. Now what fabric goes with a green gin bottle...or perhaps I should crochet a lampshade? I did find one in a book! Yet another project for the weekend. What are YOU making this weekend?