I spent most of Sunday afternoon/evening and last night dyeing up a skein of yarn for the dyed yarn swap. I’m not sure if I like it. well, parts of it I like, but other parts… I’m not sure if I can make it ‘better’, or if I’ll do more damage than good.

I did learn some good lessons though:
* winding giant skeins goes a lot easier with help
* don’t wander away from the steaming pot. I don’t know what happened last night, but it didn’t smell good. (I let it go a few minutes longer than the timer. It smelled very vinegar-y when I came back down. when I took the lid off, the yarn kind of deflated.)
* when attempting to do the fair-isle-like dashes, follow the book’s advice and don’t do them at the same time - you can a very run-together mess.
* when doing long stretches of color, there has got to be a better way than ‘hand painting’ the entire thing.

the yarn was still a bit damp when I left for work this morning. if anyone has suggestions for getting it from giant skein to normal sized skein, I’m all ears.

yes, I took pics. (while waiting for dh to return from the store with saran wrap, I had a ‘duh, I should be blogging this’ moment.)