Magic

I saw this arrangement standing in the hall yesterday. After shovelling the snow, our hats and mitts are always wet. So we just pop them over a handy yardstick, hiking pole or umbrella handle to dry. It is now our official 'scare-snow' and I hope it works!

I think we'll leave it this way until, say, July. That should do the trick.

Dyed

Here's the wool yarn that was dyed the other day. My intent was to get a turquoise color for the over-dyed wool fabrics that I was doing. This was just a 'throw it in the pot because there's room' kind of thing and I didn't have any particular color need.
When I mixed up the dye solution it seemed way too green so I threw in a bit of blue. (Like most recipes, I only use them as a basis for my own experiments.) This is the result and the photo color is pretty true. I've rewound and weighed - there's 172 g in this skein. I hope that's enough for the mitts I have in mind.
Stay tuned.

Oh, yeah, in the end I didn't use the wool fabric that I had dyed. One was too plain and the other had too much orange in the tweed which didn't seem to change much when over-dyed. It'll go somewhere else but not these quilt blocks.