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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Ahhhhh. Silk

What is it about silk? Next to the skin it is soooo luxurious. At the dye pot it performs so beautifully that you can only keep dying in a frenzy of new and different colors. I'm never satiated when dying silks and silk blends, each batch urges me toward the next. I've been at the purples and greens today and am quite delighted with the results. Kind of makes you feel like an underachiever though when you think how clever those little worms are with their butts!
On the knitting front, I have Prisma socks going in the red colorway I just stocked. I am also finishing some ringed stripe on a gray background. My new non-sock project is the branching out scarf in kid mohair/silk out of my peach and rust colorway. Whether the mohair turns lace knitting into a piece of cake or a case of pique remains to be seen.
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3 Comments:

  • At 2:49 PM, Blogger cindy said…

    Ahhhh...yes silk is wonderful!!!! "piece of cake or a case of pique"...Su you wax eloquent as always when you choose to write.....

     
  • At 5:00 AM, Blogger mad angel said…

    RE piece of cake/case of pique...that was so brilliant I wish I'd thought of it myself! Can I use it in a story sometime???

    My silk roving did come out really nice once dry, BTW. in the photo you saw, it was still pretty wet.

    I get so impatient with the rinsing process, though! Do you find that the water never does quite run clear no matter how many times you rinse the yarn/fiber?

    I have one more seam to do on Seamus' sweater, so I should be able to show the finished garment when I come to knitting on Tuesday...

     
  • At 11:11 AM, Anonymous Marisa said…

    Wow, dying sounds like fun. Too bad my mother doesn't do too much of it, might be too messy for certain neat-freaks in the house :)
    I'm sure puddy would love to play in the dye pot!

     

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