Fear no more!

So today I conquered my fear of Fair Isle. I grabbed a couple of balls of wool, and a set of needles, and sat down with The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle Knitting. And ta da!

As you can see I started simple down at the bottom, but then when I got more comfortable with it I started to branch out. I used to be terrified to try color knitting, but like cabling, alot of people are afraid to try it, but it's relatively simple with practice.

And I got a dishcloth done! This is from the Strawberry Smoothie pattern at Harvest Moon Designs, and one of the hand paints that I did. This pattern was great!

Sock yarn!

I just updated the webpage, and I added a sock yarn category. I don't have many yarns up there yet, but I feel confident in my dyeing that I am ready to put the category up. I went through a number of skeins just playing around, but now I am having some really gorgeous colors show up on the wool.

I also posted a few new cotton yarns, in reds and pinks. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow I'll get some more cotton dyed.

I'm still plodding away at the Forest Canopy Shawl (which is knitting up beautifully), but I also started a dishcloth out of one of my hand dyes, using the Strawberry Smoothie pattern from Harvest Moon Designs.