Colours

I bought some yarn cakes from the Milton woollen mills when I was there last, 1 dollar each! I've wanted to knit and dye some new blanks for a while now, especially for stripey socks. I've run out of blue food dye so I'm only getting reds, yellows, greens and greys. I think I'll get some blue to make that contrast, it makes the most saturated purples and dark blues.

I've knit two blanks up so far on the knitting machine, and had less of a problem with it this time. There's just a certain trick to that machine! Not to fast, not too slow and stopping at just the right time seems to stop stitches from popping off the needles. 

This is before steaming and drying, the colours tend to run together more when they're tucked up tightly in the dish. These colours remind me of sickly looking lollies with all the food colouring you can get! Food dye doesn't seem so bad when you don't eat it....

When dry it looks like this!

Pink... damn, that red nearly always goes pink without a bit of yellow to strengthen it.

So there are two blanks, and bpth have different colour orders so that when I knit my socks they'll be contrasting stripes and constantly changing. I'd love to do this in another more obviously contarastin set of colours too. Like knitting Noro, probably the closest I'll get to that!

And this is the crochet bag all lined and finished, a good size for stashing away projects, books and bits and bobs.

I've got my restricted licence test on Friday so I'm pretty nervous but excited. If I pass it I'll be able to use my dad's car from time to time and eventually get my own car. What freedom that will be!

Currently planning a fashion parade/auction for the theatre, should be good fun :)

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