My #2 Good Karma Hand-painted yarn

The finished product,,,,,,My Suncatching Socks!  And the Before's below:

My Good Karma Hand- Painted Yarn that I call Suncatching!

Here it is my yarn already for MrB to crank out!

Tada...one sock almost complete...  I snuck a photo while MrB was away from the machine.

Pretty photo sunshine and all!

This happened by accident today as my clothesline was too full to have our personal socks drying on it also....so I came up with an alternative, and it just looked too cool that I had to share it and post it here.   See, we where our socks all the time even in the summer time.  We love our Socks!  I think you would love them too if you had some!  So why not check out Socks Made On 88 if you live in our local area.  They will be sold at markets come fall.  And if you really like them you can check out our website also now.  A pretty picture also brought the opportunity to put in plug for our little venture. Thanks :-)

http://sockson88.wix.com/socks-made-on-88

msb from Socks Made On 88

1st Hand painted Good Karma Yarn on 88

After

Before

Here we are folks!  First ball of MY Good Karma hand-painted Yarn now in SOCKS!   Socks Made On 88 first Good Karma Yarn cranked out! And 1st Yarn of msb hand- painted, 1 of 4 completed for socks, all my very own!  I absolutely Love
them!

msb from Socks Made On 88

New Poll question up today

Which of the 4 balls of yarn that I hand-painted, the colourway,  do you like the best, before being knitted?

Sightseeing
Suncatching
Sailors Delight
Seas and Sand 

Thank you for your participation! 


msb from Socks Made On 88

Hand- painted Yarn I did at Good Karma Farm

Here are some pictures of the yarn I hand painted at the Good Karma Farm Crank-in.
I did 4 skeins.  I will call these the before pictures and the after pictures will be the socks completed.  I have ideas of naming my created colours and the first ones, MrB cranked out last night.  I will have to kitchener them today in which I think I will get my stuff and go out to the deck this morning and do that as the sun is shining.  So here are the 4 names I have pondered upon:
1.  Sightseeing
2.  Suncatching
3.  Sailors Delight
4.  Seas and Sand

I have picked these names by just looking at the yarn wound up in ball.  I think the names will suffice also once knitted.  It is really hard to tell what the socks and pattern of the hand painted yarn will actually look like. Here is a preview of all 4 skeins wound into balls ready for cranking/knitting!  

Sightseeing

Suncatching

Sailors Delight

Seas and Sand

Back from Crank-in at Good Karma Farm

We had a great time at our very first crank-in!  We met some good people who are now our new CSM friends.  We met Jamie from the EGKC, and she is a gem!  Jim and Amy from Good Karma were so very hospitable, lots of room for all the crankers who particapated and attended the weekend event.

Saturday we got a surprise.  Those who wanted to were able to take their hand at hand dyeing some Good Karma Yarn!  Oh yes, I did this with great enthusiasm, so much so that I did 4 skeins.  I just love it!  I can't wait to see what the socks will look like.  I just may have to research that more and see what else I can learn about the whole process.  

I think it is only fair that I share some of the hand dyeing photos too.

Photos always capture more than words can sometimes!

After everyone who did their hand-dyeing that wanted to, it was not finished.
All the skeins had to be bagged and cooked in the microwave for 14 minutes.
After been cooked, they had to be rinsed, and spun and then hung up to dry.
Since I was not cranking I took on the duty of helping out in the mill with these duties to make sure everyones yarn was processed and begun the drying.  I also helped tidy up the mess at the end.  Oh this was great fun, a good task to keep me out of trouble for the day.  I started about 11:30 and then wound it all down at 4 to go back to check on MrB and he had a pair of socks ready for me to kitcherner which I did but first have all had to put my feet up!  It was a great day and it was completed by having a lobster supper.  We slept pretty darn good that day as we were exhausted.  Sunday morning we did some more and then packed up.  Great time had by ALL!  So many thanks to all who attended and made it happen!  Yay to me too, as I was the one who  had the bright idea to bring everyone together for the event!  I am very pleased :-) indeed!

msb from Socks Made On 88

5 more days......Excitement hypes!

Who would have ever thought 7-8 months ago, I would be saying that MrB and I are so very excited to head off to a crank-in (sock school), our very first 
CRANK-IN!!!!  Yippee!

I think this event will officially welcome us to the CSM World almost like being screeched-in!

We both are so looking forward to meeting people, learning things, and socializing with CSM folks who too have an itch to be involved in creating socks. This will be our first sock school but we know it will not be our last :-)  The process of packing and checking this and that off our lists have commenced.  I sure hope we do not forget anything, but that is really not in my nature so I think we will be fine. I will check in later in the week and see how our week of preparing goes. Check, check, check!  Blast off Friday!

msb from Socks Made On 88