What I did last night

Yesterday was boys night out, so I had time all to myself to do this. I dyed up two 4oz rovings and 5 skeins of superwash, sock weight yarn. My inspiration was my home town, Miami, with it’s bright lights, bright colors, neons and the whole Miami Vice feel. Check out this page for more pictures. Once I’m done with this, it will be up on Deco Handspun as well so I would love some critiques, good or bad. Let me know what you think . There’s some that I know I need to redo because the colors didn’t completely take, but you get the idea.

On top of this crazy dyeing project I also decided to pick up Frost Flowers & Leaves again.

That’s right. I have FINALLY finished ripping back to where I completely screwed up (which was an entire chart repeat, about a months worth of work) and I’m going to start working on this thing again. I need to go through it before I start knitting again and fix all the live stitches that are on there now to make sure everything is in order because I know when I ripped back there are some stitches that got twisted, some that lost a stitch and the yarn is dangling behind it instead of looped through it, things of the sort. Frost Flowers and Leaves has finally been allowed to come out after the massive time out it was on. I need to finish this. I want to finally start using it because every time I stare at it and grope it, it’s soft silkiness calls to me. It’s saying, “finish me! I’m soft and comfy and you’ll love the way I feel wrapped around you comforting you” so it’s time be done with it already. Besides, I started this thing something like a bazillion years ago and I think that’s just way too long to not have finished it already, and it’s taking up precious needle space. I could have cast on another stole or a triangular shawl or something by now, but I can’t because of FF&L.

All in all, I think that yesterday was a fairly productive fiberlicious day, between the W.T. socks, the FF&L ripping fiasco, and that dyeing that I did, I think I did a lot, considering I also pull down a full time job.

Tonight is SnB night, so maybe there will be another productive night as well. Maybe tonight I’ll finish seaming the Stepson Sweater from Hell (S.S.F.H for short). I have one side seamed (side and sleeve), now I need to do the other side, get the zipper sewed in, and sew down the collar and it’ll be done! I’m not too hot on mattress seaming the sides though. Actually, I think I suck at it. I’ll post pictures later on and you guys can be the judge of it.