After coffee and the swap it was time to head off to the second mystery venue of the day. I was completely in the dark as to where we were going, even after we arrived in Wantage I had no clue until we walked around the corner from the car park and saw the sign saying "Fyberspates this way"!
The girls had brought bubbly, sandwiches, scones and cake so after we'd all enjoyed a spot of lunch and Jeni had explained the basics to us we set about dyeing some yarn. We each had a skein of Sheila sock, one of sparkle lace, and one of merino silk to dye. First of all I tried dyeing some of the Sheila sock - I wanted to recreate a skein of smoothie sock that I bought from Artist's Palette yarns a couple of years ago and I think I succeeded.
This is going to look fabulous in a pair of socks.
Then I switched to green and dyed a lovely skein of merino silk as a semi-solid.
I'm thinking either a scarf or maybe a hat and mittens.
Finally I dyed two beautiful skeins of sparkle lace in pink (far left) and silver (second to left). I love this yarn - it has silver in it!
I'm especially happy with the silver. I think it's possibly the prettiest yarn I've owned and I'm blown away that I dyed it myself.
I can't tell you what a lovely day I've had. I was so touched by the nice things my friends said about me and that they went to so much trouble organising this for me.
Thank you so much all of you! And to Jeni for letting us loose in her workspace!
Here are some photos from the day.
And here's all the yarn we dyed!
4 comments:
All the yarns came out beautifully didn't they. I hope Felix's last yarn worked second time!
I love both of your sparkly yarns, such pretty colours.
Friends, yarn and food - what an absolutely perfect day! Your yarn looks gorgeous.
Wow, look at all those colours (and sparkle). Brilliant photos of a brilliant day!
It was so much fun to organise and I'm super happy that everyone seemed to have such a good time.
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