Scout got me thinking today with her latest post on dyeing sock yarn, that I really want to learn to dye and spin my own yarn. Yesterday I had to go into my professors office to finish up the assignment we have to do for the spinning exercise she had us do, and I spun some yarn on a top whorl spindle. It was very cool and I made some pretty good looking yarn, in my opinion.
Since I’m graduating soon, and I have a job (for which I have to go get drug tested today…), my brother and I are going to rent a house in Albuquerque. We really only need 2 bedrooms, but I have this wonderful fantasy of getting a house with 3 bedrooms and turning the extra room into my office/knitting paradise. I just imagine a room with a huge comfy chair for knitting, with an espresso machine nearby. I think it’d be totally sweet to have a spinning wheel and a dyeing station in there too. It’d be like a one man yarn store/garment maker room! I know that this is all a large dream, but I’ll start small, with the comfy chair :)
I think that sounds absolutely fantastic and DOABLE.
Then you can have parties and invite all of us over to spin and dye.