Twisted Fibers

I am getting the urge to knit socks again.  This is mostly because I don’t have a mindless project on the needles right now.  I discovered that I only had some Knitpicks Bare sock yarn that would work.  So, because I don’t want white socks, I dyed it.

With my last pair of socks, I realized that striped is much more fun to knit than variegated.  So I wanted to dye my yarn to be self-striping.  I measured how long the stripes were in Felici and pushed two chairs into position to form a loop that size.  Let me tell you, winding 100grams of yarn takes a while.  It was a sort of Yarn Aerobics because I had to take four steps forward, then eight back for every loop.  After about twenty loops, I started to get a little too into it, I think…  I was listening to music, so it sort of became a strange dance.

I steamed the yarn in two plastic bags so that the colors would stay separate.  Plastic bags work really well for this.  They are hardier than plastic wrap.  The only reason I thought to use plastic bags was because we are out of plastic wrap, actually.

I wish it was summer!  Yarn dries so much quicker when I can put it outside in the 90 degree weather.  It’s currently hanging in my shower to dry because it is colder outside.