Hello, World

Hello, world wide woolly web readers. I am still here. Still alive and kicking. Full of busy, but never seeming to achieve anything worth noting down here. I will try harder, I promise.

Anyway – just dropped in to ask for your help. I had half a kilo of nude (white) BFL sock yarn delivered today. I want to try my hand at dyeing. I am particularly interested in semi-solids and in overdyeing techniques.

Now – I confess to being without Clue. So, can you help? Personal advice or  URLs for excellent (i.e. directed at idiots)  first timer’s tutorials would be much appreciated.

Update

  • May socks (Nain) 50% done. I have one sock. ONE sock.
  • May shawl/scarf thing. Not done. NOT done. NOT DONE! Am on R9 of 23 border rows and have begun to hate this thing with a vengeance.
  • The yarn for the super secret sample knitting has arrived and has been wound but no swatching achieved yet
  • The Zwartbles spinning has made some progress but am still on bobbin #1
  • I began a new spin today on the Traveller – some left over sliver from a felting project. It is gorgeous.

That’s it. The lot. What’s happening to my productivity?

Never mind the productivity – where are the pictures? –  that’s what we need to know.

Shame.on.me.

Tsk.

SpinningGill is coming round shortly and we plan to spin with a bottle of wine for company as we are both without our partners this week. Mine comes home tomorrow so I must have a flurry of cleaning and tidying in the ante meridiem. Later though, I hope to ferret in the big box on the top shelf – the one marked “dyeing and paper-making” – and I shall return to detail what stocks I have and then hopefully you can proffer the advice that I am seeking.

There you are, a promise, I will be back tomorrow. There shall be A Post.

Oh, my.

With photos?

Don’t ask for much, do you?

We shall see. Wait. And see. You never know your luck.

Published by Scattered Thinker

The Scattered Thinker is somewhat past her prime, but not yet in any danger of giving up. In the Inter-world, she is often known as plumbum, or sometimes as ulygan. In the Real Life, she goes by the name of Beth. Beth is a roamer. She lives in a motorhome and has a backup static caravan that serves as a bolthole if needed. Bricks and mortar are very much a thing of the past. Contact Beth if you would like to correspond with paper and pen.