Sigh...vacation is over

For the past two weeks, I have had a rare vacation usually if I take two weeks together I go somewhere. It has been nice basically catching up on things, doing some organizing and mainly knitting. I got my stash updated and loaded with pictures on Ravelry-a feat in itself.

But now back to the real world and school...I no wanna.

Well Damn...

Here I am knitting away the last few days of my vacation. Three scarves in 2 days not bad-2 presents 1 self. Doing good…then it comes. The email

50% off entire store. Seems one of the newer LYS is going out of business and well the entire store was 50% off. Now they carry the one yarn I love and most of that line-ROWAN. You can’t beat 50% off Rowan. So here is the damage…

Bagged:

Hello Yarn!

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Now here is the really scary part I was only in there a bit over a half hour.

Adventures in Dyeing

In 2006, I took a class in yarn dyeing. The woman had been a fabric dyer for years and well as dyeing fiber for weaving. It was a wonderful class because I was the only student and what we did was play after all the instructional stuff.

I had brought in three skeins of Katia Ingenua to try to over dye. No one thought it would turn out the way it did. It was not rocket science either, we just skeined the yarn on a swift, tied it up, shoved it into a large zip lock and I dumped different colors of dye into them. It came really cool though.

Well, I was taking stash pictures for my Ravelry account (ID: Kamala) when I found them. So below is the original color and the new over dyed one.

The OMG Moment

This week I just started listening to the Stash and Burn Podcast, like Jenny and Nicole I decided to sit down and update my yarn stash spread sheet...well for the yarns I could find-since I have a bad habit of leaving them in bags and putting in strange places. Not that I am trying to hide them or anything I just tend to misplace things easily.

TOTAL YARDS: 111,388.5 yards.

OMG how did this happen...I have no will control when it comes to yarn. What is scary is that I can tell you what project I bought every skein for.

Anyone have a Bond knitting machine that they would like to go to a good home. I think I am going to need it.