Yarn for sale and Lizard Ridge

I've been knitting a bit, but lately I've mostly been dying yarn. I'm trying to sell it on etsy if anyone is interested. The pictures are pretty terrible. I need to work on that.

I started lizard ridge. Here's the first block.



I'm planning on buying a skein of Noro Kureyon and knitting a block once a month.

Dying

Yarn that is :p

My mom is working on an art quilt and wanted me to knit lace leaves out of silk for her to use on it. She sent me some recycled sari silk, but it was too thick for what she wanted and just looked like a tangled blob even after blocking. After a lot of confusion about what she actually wanted out of the leaves, I ended up getting some Debbie Bliss Pure Silk (in celery I believe) and dying it.

I didn't do anything fancy, just soaked the skein in vinegar for about 45 minutes, mixed up some food coloring, used a turkey baster to apply the dye and microwaved it until the liquid was clear.

It came out pretty well, I think...



I spent a few hours today doing the same to some fingering weight merino I've had laying around for about a year. The silk was much neater but I can't afford to do that all the time. I'm going to try to sell the sock yarn on Etsy. We'll see how that goes.

I've got two skeins of complimentary teal and pink. One of them got a black spot in the pink somehow, but I don't think it'll matter as much when it's knit up.



I've also done some black/rust/turquoise and I was trying to do grey, but it turned out multicolored and drab. I might still try to sell it, but I'm going to think about it. Neither of those have been rewound so I don't have good pics yet.

Blogging and Me

I can't blog. I've tried multiple times and never succeeded. I'm going to try again though. I want a place to talk about my knitting. I'd almost given it up, and I certainly hadn't been able to design anything in a while because of job stress. But I'm back at it and want a dedicated space to talk about it all. I may never get around to customizing the template or moving it to it's own server, but that's not really what blogging is about.

So I'm going to update at least once a week, even if it's just to say that I haven't done anything! So check back every Monday (for now, my schedule later might dictate that the day change but we'll see...) I need routine in order to get things done.