that trying to to dye a large quantity of finicky specialty skeins while simultaneously waiting on one staying-home-sick kid and shuttling the healthy sibling to and from school was.... unrealistic. Normally Helpful Dad is working 14 hour days at the Olympic sliding track - bobsleigh and skeleton training this week and World Cup next (though I did dispatch him to the post office with packets of yarn when he came home for a short break.) There will be new yarn on Sunday - I managed a full complement of the colourway of the week yesterday, and a few rainbow sock skeins today... just not the dozen or more I had hoped for. (They are awfully labor intensive - but so much fun!) Next week I'm going to bow to reality, forego dyeing altogether and play catch up with a house teetering dangerously on the edge of complete squalor, but there will be more fraternal socks after that, I promise.
Have I showed you the aerial view I took of the sliding track last summer?
Built for the 2010 Olympics, it promises to be a very exciting addition to the international sliding circuit. It's the fastest track ever built (by a long shot - they are looking to break 150 km/h next week; until now it has been rare to break 140, even at one of the faster tracks like St. Moritz), and scares the pants off of most of the teams presently training on it.
I am mystified as to how you do your beautiful color transitions without weird unattractive mixing as you move from color to color
Posted by: johanna | 29/01/2009 at 03:54 AM