Yarn Therapy
I'm glad I'm finally learning to work the serger, but it's still very foreign and hard to do--and I may never recover from the "blind hem episode"--so I felt like spending a day with yarn. It's friendlier, never cuts or grabs anything, and never requires such a thing as a blind hem. But I needed a break from the lace shawl, so Some friends gave me a dye kit and this yarn back in March, but I've been a bit nervous to try it because I was afraid of messing up the yarn somehow, but since I still can't do any sewing I decided to give it a shot yesterday. Since the yarn is gift yarn, I wanted to make something for myself with it, and decided that I wanted a pair of yellow socks and a pair of red socks. I started with the yellow, thinking it might be easiest to fix if I messed it up, but this was actually pretty simple. The instructions say to simmer on the stove for 30 minutes or until the water is clear, which for me took a bit longer, but it did...