tow favourite colour

I think it’s pretty obvious my favourite colour is from the blog title! I am happy to report that the favourite colours swap was a smashing success! The interesting twist we learned later that we were paired up with the person we were sending it to. See in the swaps I’ve been you only know who you are sending to, not who is sending you a swap. So we weren’t aware that the moderators of the swap put a twist in and paired us to have direct swaps without knowing about it. Fun!
My swap partner was Kristen and she sent me the awesomest blue swap package. Look!

Uuuh, what could be in the packages?

The notebook, the pen and the scisors are all from Smiggle. It’s a store I like going in to but never bought anything for myself from there before. The notebook cover does funny things to your eyes as you look at it! The yarn is silvery blue Tofutsies –a new yarn for me to try! And the highlight was the branching out scarf made for me in beautiful blue KPPPM!

I am happy to report my swap partner, again Kristen liked what I’ve sent her! With her permission I took these photos from her flickr page,

The socks fit!

And the additional goodies. The tea wallet was custom made by lulli on etsy. She did a fantastic job, I high recommend her!
On the other swap front the Juno shawl is coming along great!

It looks like I will need more yarn than I have to complete it and my kind swap partner offered to spin some more so I can finish the project. Crafty people are the best!
The colours in the yarn is amazing. You can not get beautiful variety of shades and hues with machine spun yarn. This photo shows the colours a bit better

Hmm, maybe I’ll get a nicer camera for my birthday!
I got a question about the yarn I’ve dyed. Heh, didn’t think anyone would be interested in the details honestly! I didn’t have a clear plan in mind. I wanted to play with the icing coloring my mom sent over from America. I read that black icing breaks into interesting colours when you pour in vinegar. I wanted to try that. I soaked the yarn in water with a splash of vinegar for a couple of hours. I think it takes the dye much quicker if you soak it for a long time. I put in 8 cups of water into a pot and dissolved 1/4 teaspoon of Wilton’s icing dye in black in it. I plopped the yarn in the water and turned on the heat to low. I poked it around periodically to make sure it was taking in the dye. I also poured in a cup of vinegar for a good measure after a while. The dye went clear rather quickly and I didn’t like the colour too much.It was murky dark green. I dissolved 1/4 teaspoon of Kelly Green of Wilton’s icing dye and poured that in to the pot. I had Queen’s food colouring at home so I poured in a bit of that yellow and mixed that in. I also poured red food colouring but I poured it just to the top bit of the yarn so I can have it in certain spots. And once again waited for the dye to be absorbed and water to turn clear. To sum it up, I was experimenting and got lucky!