{this moment}

{this moment} A Friday ritual. A single photo (oops...maybe a few more this week) - no words - capturing a moment from the week (or in this case, the past month). A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit SouleMama leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

A sock camp morning dyeing yarn with DepravedDyer and Anna Zilboorg just can't be beat! 

Happy Good Friday!

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

A very happy day at camp!

Just one week ago I had a fabulous day at camp dyeing yarn with Tina!! Loved every, every minute of it!



Of course, it was even more fun with Tina's fabulous assistant, Cockeyed!! Oh, I miss you already Debbi!!





It is inspiring just being around Tina's creativity!

So this time we experimented with overdyeing. First, my "uncomfortable" color from camp last year.






Can you believe it turned into this??? I love it!




This gorgeous yarn is just a bit too bright for me, but a very good friend gave it to me! Thanks Marcy!! See, I was thinking of you at camp!


I hope you don't mind that I turned it into this!



We also got to play with 2 STR blanks. Here is my color gradation skein.



I love this one too!




As much as I loved dyeing my own yarn, well, Tina's colors just sing to me! Yes, just a sampling of my new stash!

Here's to a fabulous week ahead! If you haven't entered the Merrily contest yet, go here. Loving all of the suggestions so far- thank you!!!

Happy Knitting!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

Happiness (1000)

Six hours of dyeing with my favorite dyer.



It doesn't get much better than this.






The artist at work.



Ta-da! So cool. I'm happy just writing this post. Such a fabulous knitting weekend it was.



And look! I dyed that! You know me and blue. I pretty much love this!


The yarn is BMFA Geisha. Yum.



And this is 100% 2ply silk. Another yummy.

I wouldn't mind dyeing yarn more often if it was all set up for me and clean up was taken care of (Stephen and Debra are rockstars!!). And of course, Tina's yarn. Perfect. Well, I take that back. I could do without the fun fur. Yes. It was high-quality fun fur that Tina had us dye, but still fun fur nonetheless. I'm thinking of turning my fun fur into some type of pet. Or I may mail it back to Tina tied with a pretty bow. hehehe.

Happy Dyeing!!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits