Snail Spirals

I finished dyeing Buttercup's fleece tonight:



I ended up dyeing dark brown instead of black as one of the accent colors, because, well... I wanted to. I just thought the brown would go better with the rest of the muted earthy colors. We shall see. If the first batt doesn't come out as planned, I can always overdye that bunch of wool to darken it up. I ended up doing two batches of the chartreuse. I was concerned that the small amount of bright colors would get lost in the dark green, and be unnoticable. I dyed the last little bit of fleece, which wasn't enough to make a full 100 gram batch, red for the same reason. The red over the natural gray looks fabulous, by the way, and there will be a red sweater from a gray fleece at some point down the road.

So in all, I have:

• 400 g green
• 400 g brown-green
• 100 g green-brown
• 100 g dark teal
• 100 g light teal
• 200 g chartreuse
• 133 g red
• 100 g brown

Hopefully 1533 g (~3.4 lb) of fiber will make enough 3-ply worsted weight yarn for a sweater with some cable-y goodness on it. It should.

I also had a helper tonight, running quality control to ensure the wool is sufficiently soft and has a good warmth factor. Note the lovely cozy cat bed immediately behind him.