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Purple & Orange

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Trekking #81 socks for a friend's birthday, yesterday.  Toe up, Addi Turbo #2 circular, Magic Loop.  Heels and toes reinforced with a second strand of Heritage Heirloom 4 ply sock yarn.  3 x 1 rib over 56 stitches.

The sunflowers and black-eyed susans are from a friend from her garden.  The asters we picked up the road in the mountains yesterday.

The skein?  The world's ugliest yarn, dyed by yours truly, in honor of Project Spectrum.  C likes it so I guess he gets a pair of socks knit from it.  Don't you think I really could use a week at Yarn School with Adrian to learn a little more about dyeing?  Maybe next year.  Or it might be better for me to stick with natural dyes?

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I don't think it's ugly at all - great colours . Can't wait to see C's socks . I love your posts ,always amazing pictures and the glimpses of life in your part of the world . Thanks for sharing .

Love the purple! Goes great with the pictures you took. I took a class on dying fabric, really enjoyed it but ended up with fabric that felt like sand paper. I would love to learn how to dye yarn. Anyway, I think it looks great.

As I was waiting for the ugliest skein in the world photo to load (it took three times as long as the others), I wondered what on earth it was going to look like. But I like it! I reckon it will knit up beautifully and can't wait to see the socks.

I like your yarn but I know what you mean by the dye challenge it never looks like we think it should.

Those socks are so beautiful. I'm now realizing that I much prefer the look of socks that are knit toe-up. I need to muster the nerve to try it one of these days...

I don't think your died skein is ugly at all! Those colors are very beautiful together! Keep it up...

I love that skein of yarn! Very fall-ish and yet not too dark at the same time. Great job in my opinion.

The trekking socks are so pretty and I think your hand dyed yarn is going to surprise you and give you something to smile about when you knit it :-)

I don't think your yarn is ugly at all! It will be interesting to see what it knits up like.

heck, send that yarn my way if you dont like it!

Wow, love that colorway of trekking!

Yarn school looks like sooo much fun. It is good to learn all techniques - whatever you learn will probably add to and enhance what you know about natural dying. Getting away along for a few days . . . what a wonderful luxury when you have small children.

I agree with the others....I rather like that skein of yarn. The colors are unusual but go together beautifully. Can't wait to see it knit up.

I love that yarn! :)

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