Having been knitting for a number of months, it was only a matter of time before a wanted to dye my own wool.  I had been worried about the use of chemicals, so when I heard of Kool-Aid I was thrilled and wanted to get started right away.

I went out and bought some  Mirasol Yarn Cotanani, which is beautifully soft and will be wonderful to knit with.

I set about with various plastic cups of dye, plastic take away containers and spirals of wool. (Not forgetting the rubber gloves!) It went really well, though I mixed the dye with way to much water and my wool had a high cotton content, all adding to the less viberant colours.  However, I was please.

Originally the wool was going to be used to make myself a little jacket, but the colours turned out a bit to pale so I am going to shelve it and use it for baby clothes.

The pictures above show it looking a bit brighter, but it dried much lighter as you can see below.

My partner in crime at work had a little baby a few weeks ago, so I got busy creating the prefect little shoes.  I regret not taking any nice pictures before giving them.  Here they are being modeled so beautifully though.

To think I thought they were to small.  As these where so greatly received I thought I’d make a pair for my next door neighbours who’s just had a baby as well.

As I’m off work for three weeks I’m trying to get lots of crafting done. Yesterday I went to the Knitting & Crafting show at London Olympia, I got some lovely fabric.

The cute little mushroom are adorable, all I need to do now is decide what to do with it.

I didn’t stop with fabric, I got Cashmere wool and a lovely knitting pattern. I am going to knit myself a rather retro tanktop. That will cause a stir at work!

This is the pattern I am going to make in lovely beige soft fluffy wool.