My new obsession: Dyeing Yarn
Sunday I finished dyeing my birthday stash. I'll try to get photos up this week.
My last batch turned out great - lilac and acid green, my favorites.
My second to last batch turned out awful. DREADFUL. I was trying to do several colors. I wanted a light celadon and a salmon. I need to practice getting colors exactly. They ended up way too dark.
Ironically I ended up with yarn the exact color of my collection of Gap socks from the late eighties.
So in my search to fix my color problems: Color Scheme Designer
This site is addictive.
OK, I realize that as a math major I have a bias to such things. This is the coolest thing ever - an algebraic formula for socks.
Expressed in terms of x. Heaven.
OK, confession. Normally all I have available to edit photos is Paint. IT can crop, and resize and rotate, but that is pretty much it.
So recently I discovered Piknik.
So a before shot:
And after:
The color correction is subtle, since the original photo pretty close. It did a good job of sharpening the shot.
Iknow, this isn't exactly knitting technique, but without photos the blog is dullsville.
My theme this year is "do it right" when it comes to my knitting, so I am working on technical details. Last few days I have been working on photography.
Well, working = reading about and wishing I had a better camera.
So basically pretending to take snappy pics.
In my reasearch I came accross this how to: http://www.conradhoffman.com/photographing_your_knitting.pdf
Funny how when you Google something the answer is right there. Seriously worth the read. I need new lightbulbs.
So my knitting resolution this year is to expand my technique. I've gotten into a bit of a rut - I do things the same way everytime.
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| Brandywine by Romi Hill |
So while working on the Brandywine shawl my SSK's were bugging me - they slant the right way, but end up all crooked.
Enter the Tech Knitter. This is my new favorite site. The illustrations alone are amazing.
Here is her post on a fixed SSK. This rings some bells - I probably read it int he past and thought "why bother". Except my old ones made wonky stitches, so there.
