Yesterday the Eastern Suburbs s’n’b girls had a dyeing day, and I was feeling well enough by the afternoon to get myself there.

Remember this:

Well, I’d had no luck finding a big bodied busty woman with skinny arms to give it to, so I frogged it and threw the yarn into a dye pot. I now have lots of skeins that look like this:

It didn’t take the dye as well as I’d hoped. I have a few theories why: not enough dyebath for the yarn to move around in (I used my biggest pot, but it was pretty full), some sort of additive left in the yarn that resisted dyeing, or maybe angora just doesn’t take up dye as well as wool. But I like the result and I’m thinking of weaving it up into a couch blanket.

Then there was more dyeing of sock yarn leftovers:

The skeins are the dyed yarn. I now have plenty of yarn to make pairs of brown and blue scrappy socks. I also used my space dyeing doovy thingo to make a big loop out of the leftover Froot Loop socks yarn, then dyed half in the leftover blue dye:

Which got me lime and dark green stripes. Not enough here for more than anklets, I think. I’d also thrown in two skeins of Cleckheaton Country 8ply in my supplies as ‘sop-up’ yarn to throw into any leftover dyebaths.

No plans for this yarn so far, but since I like better how varigated yarn weaves up than knits up, it’s probably destined for the loom.

We all worked away, painting, dipping, steaming, microwaving and simmering yarn and bedecking the Hill’s hoist with bright loops of yarn, for hours. Then we nattered and ate chocolate cake while admiring our efforts. All in all a fun, creative day.