I really did not expect this to work on the first try, but nevertheless I set it up...
turned it on...
Which later turned into this!
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A long weekend
After the much appreciated help of Dan, friends Jason and Liz, and Anne's pickup truck, I had the machine safely lodged in our garage, amongst the rubble of the crate it had been shipped in. But this was on a Friday afternoon and it wasn't until the following Monday that I had my phone date with my awesomely helpful machinist Dave, who walked me through two hours of the setting up and preparation for the machine's first run.
I really did not expect this to work on the first try, but nevertheless I set it up...
turned it on...
And ended up with this...
I really did not expect this to work on the first try, but nevertheless I set it up...
turned it on...
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3 comments:
that's amazing!
It looks beautiful.
I'm really looking forward to getting out to your shop...hopefully soon. I have a vision of producing a garment that looks almost dip dyed by picking two different colors and varying the ratio of each over several steps. So I might by a quarter pound each of
All one color (4 strands)
1 of one color, 3 of the other
2 of each color
3 of one color, 1 of the other
All the other color (4 strands)
And then I would knit each piece to a predetermined length before switching colors.
It'd be even more interesting with 5 or 6 strands, but that'd be a lot of yarn to buy in one go :)
I'm imagining a deep purple to a light silvery gray. yummy.
That's interesting--a woman was just in today who had a similar idea, in effect creating her own "variegation" by switching up the colors like you're describing. She decided on something else for her yarn today but it sounds like there's some homemade variegation experimenting on the horizon!
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