all the chicks back in the nest

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13605244.post-88178710817651451812008-04-20T22:34:00.000+10:002008-04-20T22:35:12.111+10:00all the chicks back in the nestThe boy is back and as everyone predicted, had a wonderful time. It didn't rain. Nor was it even particularly cold. No one was homesick or injured, no one had to be airlifted out (don't scoff, it's happened before) and the best bits were the evenings when they all gathered around the campfire. It was, however, very sandy and desertlike and everything, including the child, has returned covered with a layer of fine red talc. He reports that ancient rock art is very cool, feral goats are not so cool, there were a number of roaming emus as well as roos (we're quite used to those; so blase), no one had a shower in the entire seven days they were gone, and everyone slept under the stars, even those who'd <a href="http://peasoupoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-not-going-to-be-relaxing-week.html">remembered their tents</a>. (Tents are just for storing luggage in, didn't you know). I fully expected him to sleep the day away today but he was up bright and early to tune his violin, requesting he be dropped off at the local market to busk and earn enough for his next iTunes card. Life goes on in teenworld. More dyeing? Yep. I forgot to show you these. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79285786@N00/2415942256/" title=""Octopus' Garden" skein by Suse3, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2415942256_f1a5d394b4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt=""Octopus' Garden" skein" /></a> This one's called "Octopus' Garden" and it's 100g of DK 8ply, handpainted with Kool Aid. I think I'm going to have to hunt down that USA Foods shop that's somewhere over here, the one that caters to homesick Americans who can't survive in Australia without regular injections of Pop Tarts, Kool Aid, peanutbutter flavoured sweets and iced tea in plastic bottles (blech) although I think we sell that last item here these days anyway. Still blech. Tea should be served hot and in china, I believe. Anyway, must.have.more.Kool.Aid. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79285786@N00/2415942288/" title="'Lolly Shop' skein by Suse3, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/2415942288_13ceb4003b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="'Lolly Shop' skein" /></a> Yep, more Kool Aid. This colourway was dubbed 'Lolly Shop'. Most of these yarns I've been transforming were rescued from the op shop and although up till now I've been lucky, sadly this one had a certain amount of moth damage. I gave the whole bag 24 hours in the freezer to kill any remaining creatures and then started winding it into skeins but quite a lot had to be cut away. As a result this skein has too many joins to be sold or given as a gift so, (how sad), I will have to keep it. It's an 8ply DK and the colourway is growing on me. I didn't like it at all, at first. And just because I can't stop showing off and what else is my blog for, here are a couple of dye jobs that recently left my house and crossed the Pacific. This one is the 'Sacred Jewels' skein <a href="http://peasoupoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-you-find-coming-up-with-post.html">shown</a> <a href="http://peasoupoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/02/having-somuchfun-with-this-dyeing-thing.html">before</a> on the blog, now on its way to <a href="http://www.waldorfmama.com/">a lovely Texan knitter</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79285786@N00/2415942250/" title="'Sacred Jewels' skein by Suse3, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2415942250_fe0936d9dd.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="'Sacred Jewels' skein" /></a> while this lot is also off to the US, to <a href="http://www.olivespearls.typepad.com/">another very impressive knitter</a>, (and who said no good ever came of a <a href="http://badgermeetsworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/matchmaker.html">blind date?</a>), <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79285786@N00/2415966594/" title="'Plum Trees' colourway, for Jen by Suse3, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2415966594_e675eb80fb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="'Plum Trees' colourway, for Jen" /></a> who paid for the dyeing, with, what else, more yarn! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79285786@N00/2346574967/" title="malabrigo worsted by Suse3, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2346574967_68d2e3d776.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="malabrigo worsted" /></a> Three beautiful skeins of the delicious Malabrigo. Wow, this stuff is like butter. I love the internet. I'm looking forward to seeing what these talented women make when those parcels arrive.Susehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837796439737091649noreply@blogger.com