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Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 04:00 pm
Just a reminder about donating to Relay For Life. Visit my Personal Donation Page. For each $10 you donate, you receive your name in a drawing for 2 pair custom knit socks made to your shoe size. Thanks in advance and…..let’s sock it to cancer!
What is this? This is my space dying board. I’ve been spending the last couple of nights winding yarn for my Sunday Dye A Throng. I plan on dying 12 skeins of yarn and I’m actually going to keep track of what I will be doing so I can reproduce it! What a novel thought.
I will confess this is an old picture of the board. I’ve had to replace the golf Tees with doweling. The tees would not hold up to all the yarn overs.
I decided upon my recipe for winding the yarn and it is….8 rounds, 3 rounds, 5 rounds and 3 rounds; then back to the beginning. I will dye the 8’s in a solid color, the 3’s in a darker colors and the 5’s in a dot combination of 2 or 3 colors. I’ll post a picture when it is done. Now all I have to do is decide upon colors.
And here I am in my ’studio’. Notice the ‘ ‘ around studio. Actually it is the laundry room with this yucky paneling but I’ve taken one corner for my stuff. Now that I’ve purchased another Legare I’ll have to expand.
What you can’t see is the dying area. I’ve set up a table, old mini fridge to store the dyes and a large camp stove to cook everything. That way I can continue making socks while watching the pot boil.
The next event I will be demo-ing at is the Art Festival in Harbor Oregon. I want to have 60 pairs of socks completed and I am 3/4 of the way there. If need be I can pull some out of the booth which is adjacent to where the festival will be.
I’m hot, sticky and heading off to the shower. Thanks to Wendy J. Jan H. and Sarah T for your donations to relay. I appreciate it and you!