Dye adventure

Spent yesterday dyeing, once I'd gone to the post office and picked up my long-overdue parcel of dyes - it was a good afternoon for drying skeins in the garden. Very glad I did it yesterday - woke up this morning to the sounds of cars splashing through puddles and realised it was pouring down. Just for once, my timing was right. Today I'll do some cotton, and dry it over the radiator, but yesterday I dyed this:

The stuff at the back is Rowan R2 paper tape which came in vile yucky colours - I bought three balls of pale grey, three of white and six of pale pink in the £1 bin at Sew Creative sometime last year, on the grounds that it was 100% nylon and would acid-dye. The stuff in the basket at the front is merino; here's a close-up

I had 2 balls of four-ply which will make a great pair of socks... and 6 of DK. There's also one ball of 2-ply laceweight in there...

With all that, not much progress on the Olympic knitting - I did 10 or so rows which isn't that great at this stage of the game when the rows are short. To speed things up I moved it back onto straight needles - really dislike circulars though they'll have their uses when there are too many stitches for the straights. Makes the shawl look like a big exotic moth...