The great TNN yarn swap.

I took part in a wonderful themed yarn swap a few weeks back.

The swap needed to have a theme..... Within that theme you needed to give the following:

• 100g of hand dyed yarn.


• A piece of knitting bling.
  
• A food recipe.
• A small gift.

Unfortunately, the person i had hasn't posted pictures of what i made for them :( - I didn't take any photos of the full swap before i sent it to them BUT...... I do have photos of the yarn :).

The theme that i chose was: 'The desperate housewife's romance kit'.

• I made them a working yarn holder, to stop little fingers (or claws) tangling their wool. I blogged about the start of this project here.






• The recipe was for my famous caramello brownie mmmmmm.








• The gift was some red bamboo yarn & a clutch of Toblerones (cause we always know chocolate doesn't let us down!).




• The knitting pattern was a free fingerless gloves pattern off Ravelry, Called 'Berry hill'. Aren't they beautiful!

The yarn that I chose to use was 8ply, 100% wool in a scrummy light rose colour. I thought I would have a go at self striping wool..... MY way! What a laugh AND what a headache!!!!!!!!


Here are some pics of the process.......... I used a beer bottle and wound the yarn around it 20 times, then tied each bundle up with an acrylic yarn so i knew which thread to cut once it was dyed.

I had to be VERY careful that i kept the mini balls in order at all times! Imagine trying to untangle wet smelly wool...... EWWWW.

Once it was dyed (and still wet) I wound it into a hank on my swift, then I washed it with wool wash and dried it etc......

I LOVE the small parts where i tied it into mini balls that it stayed the pink..... As these will be uniform specks i am thinking that it will work a bit like Opal.

I really hope i get to see a FO of this yarn....... Watch this space.