Our CSM venture- Socks Made On 88

MrB is the cranker in this venture. He creates hand-cranked knitted wool socks made on our Circular Sock Machine, we call Brigadier 88! It is the #88th Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine newly made. Me, MsB is the cranky assistant (not) :-) that runs the business side of things,networking,doing the sock tags,yarn ordering,kitchener stitching and more. MrB is studious,and is constantly cranking out new pairs of SOCKS Made on 88! Our story and my blog unfolds here... it all began Jan.3, 2012

Sunday, 5 August 2012

More dyeing of leftovers~ Rustic Shades

I had some leftover wheat coloured yarn and I dyed it all shades of Rustic Colours to experiment. I cooked this one first after been immersed in the rest of the orange KoolAid mixture that I had from before .

After it was cooked I decided to blotch some mixture of 2ml of Cherry and 2ml of H2O and then dotted the remainder of the Cherry crystals straight from the package to give it a different effect. It is one of the creations that is hanging on the line to dry with others.

Here are some other rustic shades that I came up with by using the rest of my KoolAids mixing colours of cherry, strawberry, orange and a little bit of raspberry lemonade ( Blue Ice) too to see how many shades I could get. I even tried putting a ball of leftovers submersed in coloured dye in the crook pot adding different pieces at different times and one piece I left more undyed surfaces showing and at the very end I added a bit of the blue I had left just here and there very minimal. This will be a lot of work for MrB to piece all these pieces together wind them and create socks, but I told him he could use them for a pair of socks for me as I would like them even if no one else would. I am pretty proud of all the dyeing projects I did today as they are creative and unique and that's my cup of tea! So let's call all of these Rustic Harvest Teas! And if I get a pair of socks from all these leftovers I will call them my Rustic Harvest Tea SOCKS!