Dyeing with KoolAid

Today I did my first affort with KoolAid.
From Elin I got three small bags of KoolAid.
One orange and two pink ones.

I started with two times 30 gram BFL and two bowls of KoolAiddye (lemonade!)

I was so concentrated that I forgot to make a picture of every phase.
In a zippbag and 3 times 2 minutes in the microwave.

 and after the water was clear I had to cool them down.
Rinsed them with a little soap and now they hang out to dry.
Hope they will be pretty once spun!!!!

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My shawl

I have been struggling lately with my Fichu shawl and two days ago I decided to take it out.
Did not work for me !
I still love the shawl and started with another project.
The same yarn and another pattern.
It became the Gail (Aka Nightsongs) and on 5mm needles.
So får it looks very good!

The gail shawl is all about leaves.
The yarn does not show it now because this is only the beginning.
To be continued .........

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Decision is made or not?

I decided to go for the Fichu  pattern by Fadenidylle and I do not get it.
I think I started the right way:

The triangle is exactly how it is supposed to be, I suppose and then I had to go over to the short rows!
Man, what a strungle!!!
This is what it looks like:

It should look like decreasing instead of staying the same the whole time!
What am I doing wrong?
I want to give up !!!

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My new project?

This morning I wook up early and decided to block my Multnomah shawl and here it is:

On the Siv fest a couple of months ago I won 3 skeins of Noblesse in blue/grey and that was not enough for my feather and fan border so I bought 2 skeins of Alpaca from Schachenmeyr and that worked like a charm. I am very happy with my shawl!

Now the question is what to start for a new project?
I have some lovely alpaca in a rustlike colour and about 300 grams of it!

Any suggestions?
So far I like this and cannot decide:
Fichu by Fadenidylle
Cladonia by Kirsten Kapur

All suggestions are welcome!

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Gothenburg

Last wednesday I went off to Gothenburg to stay with Elin till Sunday.
My youngest daughter hada Basketbal tournement there so I took the time to combine those two.
The car was filled with goodies and with goodies I mean wool and that kind of thing.
Elin asked me to take the carder with me and I took with me Värmlands wool and a lot of other things.
It was like an invasion when I came to Elin:

I had my own corner :)
The next day I went to see my youngest play Basketbal and I am very proud to say that I went with the tram into town and to the hall she was playing. I am so used to use my car.
I even managed to find my way back again!

We (Elin and I) spend the afternoon with sorting wool and it was a lot !!!

You will understand that this is woolheaven for us!!

Some of the wool was in great condition and a lot wasn´t.

We do not agree on all of the wool though so Elin has to proof something!!
I´ll hope see managed because then I will save also a bit more wool than I used too.

We will see.

In the evenings I made a new friend: Frasse !

Here he is lying on my lap while I was spinning.
He sure loves the rhythm of the spinningwheel and my lap.

So relaxed and cosey.

The days went by so fast and now I am home again.

Elin offered to wash my Värmlandwool so that was staying behind, together with my Ashford Joy that she wants to test. So I am forced to spinn on my Majacraft Little Gem.

My värmland wool

Will be very nice to see here again. 

Love that girl !!

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