Fun with Fancy Fiber Kid Mohair

Monday Mary of Fancy Fibers Farm brought me some luscious clean, clean, clean mohair locks to play with in the dye pot.  When I it comes to dyeing I am like Peter Rabbit, "please, throw me in the briar patch".  Soft peach and pink tones have been eluding me, so I went after it.  I am still not totally satisfied, but what comes from the dye pot is never wrong, just maybe not quite on target.  I still love these colors and love them together.
Look for these to show up at Cordova Studios in little one ounce packs for you to play with.  I think I want to use them to do some more lock spinning like I did with my "Clementine" yarn.

Below is a shot of what the locks looked like spread out on the drying racks.  That hot pink is a bit of mystery wool I dyed in a mystery pink dye pot.  Love the surprises. 
What colors would you like to see next???

 

TA-DAH: Two-at-tim Socks Two ways

Liz taught a class at the Fancy Fibers Retreat in February on knitting socks two-at-a-time on two needles or on one long circular needle using the magic loop method. Now, I consider myself a seasoned knitter, but this new skill almost had me in tears. It was so frustrating and confusing, but I made myself do it. I have graduated from the two needle method and am no knitting these orange-y brown socks on one 40" size one needle. I think I prefer this to the two circulars method.

These are the finished socks from the two needles. Well, almost finished. They are waiting on double points for me to "Kitchener the toes". This is two Claudia hand-painted yarns.

Yes, I ran out and had to dig around for something to finished the toes with. I hate it when that happens.
Next, I am going to use the magic loop to knit socks from my own hand-painted sock blanks. I've been missed the dye pots with all the Easter distractions the last few weeks.