Hi girls, today is saturday and I hope you will have some crafting time this weekend. I’ve done most of my housework chores today and hope to have time tomorrow to indulge in some knitting. Now I finally took some photos of my latest sweaters because it’s always nice to see the sweater actually worn and not just flat on a bed so here goes:

 This is the cardigan I made for my daughter. I love the shaping on the front and sides – you can see the details in the photos. I’m thinking of making one for myself as well.

 And the Enchanted Mesa by Stephen West, I love the outcome and the colours work nicely together I feel. My daughter has asked for one for her too but she would like me to tweek the pattern and have both sleeves begin at the same place and I think that might be a good idea.

I also finished plying some yarn 

And then this week I did some dyeing. It’s been months since I last did some dyeing, with our moving houses and all I have not had the possibility of dyeing my yarn as before and this week I just HAD TO do some dyeing, it was an uncontrollable urge and so I did. I had read on a blog how someone had done dyeing with kool aid and ice cubes and thought that could be fun to try and so I did. Well yes it is fun but I’m not convinced of that as a method.

 I chose my colours and made some ice cubes and while they were in the freezer I soaked my yarn in water and vinegar. Then I put my yarn into these buckets and placed the ice cubes all around and waited for them to dissolve. Regularly I would take a peak and move the yarn and ice cubes around to get colour everywhere.

 This moving the yarn around resulted in me having beautifully RED fingers for a while 🙂

But in the end I found that the ice cubes had not coloured the yarn as I had hoped for so I decided to finish the yarn with a regular immersion dyeing method. And as you can see below I had two dye baths, one red and the other sort of yellow/orange peachy type of colour

After a while the yarn had completely soaked up the dye  and here you can see he yarn and the water around it is clear.

 Here the yarn is drying.

And here you can see the results:

And more clearly perhaps:

All in all I dyed 5 skeins. This is a fingering weight yarn: 75% superwash merino, 20% nylon and 5% silver stellina. Each skein weighs 100 gr for 400 meters. And all skeins are now available for sale in my shop here

Thats all for now ladies. I hope you have a nice weekend with lots of time for your favorite craft 🙂