lots of pretty pictures
I’m playing aorund with photopress and stuff at the moment, trying to get some pretty albums up. It’s not working out so well, but I did take some pics while doing this.
I still haven’t got my camera back, but it turns out that in daylight my phone takes half decent pics.
So I’d like to introduce you to:
Barnabus McGraw, who I knit from this kit, which I don’t exactly recommend. It’s cutely packaged but the supplies are pretty crappy quality, and unless you’re giving it to a child who can already knit they’re really going to struggle with the instruction booklet.
The eyepatch is my addition. (he has a scar underneath).
This is a little voodoo bunny I made months ago, but he was sitting on my desk when I was taking pictures so he had to be included in the shoot. Pattern is from Naive Knitting
This is some of the yarn I dyed
I made these socks a few weeks ago, but I’m wearing them today, so they got in front of the lens too.
And this is the sock I made from the first yarn I dyed, it’s companion is coming along while I ride busses, sit in lectures etc.
In case you were wondering Rosa is doing well, but slowly. I’m up to the eyelet row on the front - this
was the perfect excuse to avoid untangling the last few metres of yarn.
Posted: March 18th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 3
Comments
Comment from colin
Time: March 27, 2006, 5:14 pm
I have only recently started to knit socks and the more I see the more hooked I am becoming. These are lovely!
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colin
Comment from pavlova
Time: April 4, 2006, 4:45 pm
I was just wondering, being a fellow brit and with no access to kool aid, after seeing you dye with vinegar and food colouring into a microwave… is it colour safe? i.e. do the colours bleed much? and what technique do you use (e.g. paint with the colour, then fix with vinegar or mix colour and vinegar then paint?)
Obviously if I were to dye with the food colourings, I wouldn’t wash my socks in a machine with my whites, but say if I wanted red and white stripes… I wouldn’t want my efforts turning into a pink slurry!
Hope you’ve had a great holiday!
Comment from Ysolda
Time: April 6, 2006, 3:08 pm
The colours have been fine. I mix the dye with vinegar and water, and then paint or if I’m doing stripes I put the different colours in different tubs and then microwave with the yarn in the tub. The only problems I’ve had with colour bleeding have been when I’ve used very concentrated food dyes that have no other ingredients other than the e numbers. They don’t have citric acid and need a LOT of vinegar. There is a cake decorating shop in Edinburgh that sells paste dyes and I’ve had good results with those. I think the company that makes it is sugarcraft, it comes in a much wider colour range than the supercook liquid dyes. It is possible to get kool aid here incidentally, there is at least one website and there was a discussion on craftermath about it. But after trawling through the lengthy craftster thread on kool aid dyeing the consensus seems to be that paste dyes are better anyway.
The first time I did it I was so surprises when I rinsed the yarn and the colour didn’t leak out at all.
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