yup, I did. I split the remaining 170g of Lion Fisherman’s Wool from the hat I made after the Harlot event. I wasn’t in the mood to make another white hat. ;)

So Saturday, I prepared the dyes. I used Rit dyes in Kelly Green, Country Blue, and Golden Yellow. I put each color in a canning jar (mixed following the directions in Dyeing to Knit), then put the jars in water in the dye pot with water to heat them up. folded the skein in thirds and stuck a bit into each jar of color. cooked awhile, let it cool, then prepared it for steaming to set the color.

I still had a good bit of dye left, so I took the remaining yarn (which was still in whatever you call the oblong balls that that yarn comes in) and shoved half of it into the jar of blue and let it sit for a good while. then went and carefully pulled it out and flipped it over into the green dye and let it sit for another good while. then I steamed it and propped it up to dry, which wasn’t going so well with it still being in the ‘ball’. so Sunday I wound it off on the swift and it dried much quicker after that. and it’s quite pretty.

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this is the second one, post steaming (or presteaming)

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both skeins after drying

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and again