Projects for Me, msb and projects for MrB!

I got all my dyeing done and the yarn is drying!  MrB got his project done also and created a new pair of Socks!  They are truly another pair of One Of A Kind!  I have to kitchener them as well as another pair that I am STILL working on as they were the last thing to do on my to-do list for Socks Made On 88 today.  When I meant that today would be spent in the business venture, I surely did mean it.  Supper is soon upon us and I still a few more little jobs to complete before my day is done.  It will spread into the evening but that is Ok and then I will come back and post pictures of the two pairs when they are all done fini!  A darn good day for Socks Made on 88 if I must say!  What a great way to spend some time and enjoy it too!

msb from Socks Made On 88

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!

Drying!

Drying!

And still drying!

Dyeing Leftovers Orange and Blue

Here are my 3 small hanks of leftovers just itchi' to get handpainted by msb!

Orange Kool Aid and some water wiating for some yarn to become Orange!

Here I am going to use my new-to-me crock pot insert to put in the microwave to cook the coloured yarn.  I am dyeing two small hanks with BLUE food colouring that I had mixed with water and vinegar a previous day to get ready, as I am always game for Blue!

Here are the two small hanks in the crook pot ready waiting to be cooked.

Can you see this magnificent Orange, it is also going to cooked in the microwave but I think if I recall correctly I put this hank in a freezer bag.  This one was not done in the crook pot.  I wanted to experiment and use some variety of methods to see what I liked doing the most and what turned out satisfactory for me now and gauging things also for future dyeing projects also.  I took notes too!

Orange and Blue leftovers all painted and ready to dry shown with their dyeing counter partners!

DYEING ~ PICKING BLACKBERRIES!

some left over yarn soaking to be used next after this little project

my table all set up with some supplies and the 50 grams of yarn that I intend to dye/handpaimt

My first intention was to dye the whole hank purple but then me being the rebel I am could not control myself from using a bunch of colours, in fact all of the colours I had from the packets of KoolAid, how could I resist those smilin' faces looking at me saying, "Pick Me"

So I picked them all! :-) 2  Grape, Strawberry, Lemon-Lime and Ice Blue (Raspberry Lemonade)

 Oh oh I did not use all the colours, I lied!  I didn't use orange or cherry!

Heres my prize possesion "Hung out to Dry"

It's twisted, yes it is twisted alright hahaha!

Twisted around another way trying to show off the colours in different spots!

My twisted prize does have a name as I gave it one.... it is called PICKING BLACKBERRIES!

 Have you ever picked blackberries you get scratched, bleed and bruised and stained, and all the colours are protrayed here in this hank!

I think it will be a SOCKS MADE ON 88 Day today!

MrB has already made a pair of socks!  #5 of the Van Gogh series, this colourway is from the inspiration of the "Cafe Terrace" painting.  I will kitchener them today sometime soon.  I also have some tagging to do, and I am in the midst of soaking some yarn getting ready to dye/handpaint it with koolaid.  I am only using 50 grams as I am practising and want to create a solid to variegated shade to go with some of left over yarns for a One of a Kind pair of socks to be cranked-out to have for our Harvest Festival show in September.  This is where my head is today!  The project will be started a bit.  I am sure that MrB will have his hand in cranking out another pair of socks today also.  And most likely it will be the 6th pair in the Van Gogh Series.  Not sure which of the colourways he will pick but they are all turning out Beautiful!  So I must be off now and go do my tagging and then check in on my yarn soaking, and kitchenering to be done also!  Oh My which should I do first?  I think the order will be check on soaking, tagging, kitchenering and then dyeing.  How does that sound?  I will be back, Jack!  Hopefully with some pictures of something that has be completed today to share.

msb from Socks Made On 88