Tonight was the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, and it was also the opening ceremonies of the Ravelympics.
I decided to do a few events to help motivate me to finish up some projects (or get started on them). This afternoon I organized all the pieces for those projects.
This is my kickoff project: a baby romper I started five years ago and stopped because I didn't like the shape (and was making it from acrylic for washability, so it couldn't be blocked into submission). I decided to rip it out and reuse the yarn.
My second project, the big one, is finishing spinning the black alpaca I'm going to use to make a sweater for Noel.
I'll also be doing some dyeing. I'll use chemical dyes rather than natural ones because I want specific colours that aren't easy (or even possible) to get with natural dyes.
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I spent the last couple afternoons preparing my yarn for dyeing (which I had planned to do next weekend, but will probably do next week). I took a couple of those huge 1-lb skeins of merino I bought last year and untangled them and divided them up into smaller balls.
Then I drew those balls out into skeins that have lots of surface area (better for dyeing).
I also went and got some appropriate dyes for cotton (the dyes I have are good for protein fibers), because I got 800 yards of doubleknitting weight cotton from a giveaway last week and I want to overdye it less offensive colour.
Anyway, the romper was my kickoff project for the event, so sometime after the torch was lit (we made an emergency trip to IKEA for chairs, since I invited some 20 people over for dinner and we only have 9 chairs) (also, we have no TV, so I'm not sure precisely when things happened, so I began late just to be sure), I began ripping out the finished pieces.
Then I balled it up for reuse. And there's one project down.
