Here’s some of what I’ve been up to:

“Lagoon” Merino 64ct Combed Top

“Truly Outrageous” Merino 64ct Combed Top

“Firebird” BFL Combed Top

“Zombie Princess” BFL Combed Top

Yarn is in the steamer as we speak, pictures soon.  These bright, saturated colors are really helping to scratch my color itch.  Now I just have to stop myself from spinning them!

My acid dyes, fiber, and yarn came last week, and my dyeing adventures have begun!  Thursday night I mixed 1% stock solutions of my dyes and started playing.  I dyed two hanks of shetland combed top:

and a skein of BFL sock yarn:

One of my lightbox lights died so the colors aren’t quite right - they’re bright and loud and fun! It’s primarily pink, yellow, and blue with a little green/orange/purple where they meet. I intentionally made the color changes far apart to get at least a row or two out of each color, for a striping rather than a pooling effect. I think I’m going to have to test it out before I put it up for sale, though (plus I’m in LOVE with these colors! So not me, but I’ll go with it.) I made a huge PVC niddy noddy that makes 4yd skeins so I can dye longer repeats, and I found these instructions and made myself a swift. I’m having a great time, and I can’t wait for Monday night so I can dye some more!

Check out my new friends!

My first attempt at clay stitch markers! These were so much fun to make, and I’ll definitely be making more. These were made for my secret PlurkSwap pal.

I finally finished (well, almost finished) getting my office/craft room together!

It doesn’t seem like as much as I thought it was.  It’s not all in the picture, there is some fiber in the top part of the green hanging thingy and another pound of llama fiber out here in the living room where I’m coming it.  It also doesn’t include my WIP’s, and there are about six (seven?) of those right now.  I got the fabric hanging shelves from Target - they were from the “Back to School 08″ line and on clearance.

On the far left are my sewing projects. I have more of these white shelves I’ll add eventually, but they’re in use elsewhere right now.  This picture reminds me, I need to get or make some different curtains!  I need a rug too, the room is pretty echo-y.

So there it is!  I’m glad to finally have it all organized… but now I need to get working to make some room for my upcoming Rhinebeck haul!

Just wanted to say that I bought plane tickets for a plane trip up to Rochester!  I’m flying up on Thursday October 16th, and flying home on Monday the 20th.  I can’t wait to see family and friends, hit up Wegman’s, perhaps a trip to Rhinebeck, and some COOLER WEATHER!  (I’m not asking for snow, maybe just a sweater and my puffy vest.)  Mark your calendars!