yum... hand-dyed indigo yarn

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I've been itching to find indigo yarn for a while now, but everything that I came across seemed a bit too 'purple' to me... so I tried my hand at dying my own. All I had access to was some leftover knit picks wool of andes bulky in 'bare', and a bunch of food colouring. So, earlier this week I put it all to good use:

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The actual colour of the yarn is closer to indigo than what it shows in the picture, and I love how it turned out. Now I just have to figure out a good pattern to use it all up in! I'lll probably make a cabled scarf of some kind - can't go wrong with scarves, and can't have too many of them either!

my first handspun

I used a drop spindle to make this:

It's my very first handspun. Overall, I think it turned out alright, although I did try to make it as thin as possible. I was aiming for something about fingering weight, although despite my best efforts, there are parts of it that are thicker (like dk weight-ish) and parts that got too thin (like lace weight-ish), but, oh well. I think that sort of thing just happens.

Now, in the end I wrapped the skein around my arm, so I'm estimating its length to be about 28 meters, although I was hoping for more. It's 50 grams all together. At the very least, I love the colourway.

woo hoo! sock yarn swap!

Suh-weet, I found a sock yarn swap! And not just any sort of sock yarn swap, it's to swap Hand Dyed Sock Yarn! If you're interested, sign up - Celena's looking for at least 25 folks to join, so please do!

http://www.thehanddyedyarnswap.blogspot.com/

I'll put a link in my sidebar for easier notice/attention for those of you whom are interested.