Hello All!
I've picked up another custom dye/spin comission from a wonderful man. DH has asked me to dye, in a June Pryce colorway, something fun and colorful. BUT it must be washable, no problem SUPERWASH to the rescue! This stuff is wild to work with. It drowns itself in the water, and floats apart if you'er not careful.
But once you get it on the table it plays hard ball, grabbing and hoarding all of the dye placed onto it. So you can't move the dye about, blending it together. Knowing this I intentionally poured on extra dye manipulating as much as possible before it struck and I left white patches.
The next step was to spin it, you see he wants this dyed, spun and then knit up into a hat and mittens for one of his nephews. Completely hand made, so sweet, my DH. I'll get to do this again for another of the nephews with a different colorway. :)
So here is my first bobbin of clockwise spun singles. I'll spin another whole bobbin and then ply them together in the opposite direction. Its should fluff and puff up. Squishy wonderfulness!
As soon as I have them spun and plyed and before I send them off to one of our test knitters, I'll take some pictures and post them for you to check out.
Happy Spinning
DD
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