I did a lot of yarn winding. And weighing. I was anxious to get started with the Koigu mill ends I got at MDSW, but I really didn’t know what I was working with. I finally deciphered the tags to figure out that I had successfully in three out of four cases picked out matching colourways, but none of them are the same dyelots. So, this is what I have:

The blue yarns aren’t matching colourways – all the rest are the same, but different dyelots. But I figured that the only way to know what I can make is to weigh them! I have 70g of the pink, 55g of purple, 50g of blue, 70g of the peachy one. Well I like ankle socks, and you generally need 50g for ankle socks, so I’m good, right? Well, sort of. I’d like these socks to vaguely match.

The pink and the purple go really well together, and I have wanted to try Grumperina’s spiral technique pretty much since I saw it.

Since these four go together so well, they could be a whole pair of socks using the spiral technique. The effect won’t be quite the same, but it should evenly blend the shades of all four skeins for one damn fine looking pair of socks. Hopefully there will be no pooling! I expect to keep track of the length of the sock by weighing the balls.

I think the peach will be ok on its own, but I will blend them together anyway to balance them. The blue is so stunning on its own, so I think I’ll use the different colourway to do the toes (if there’s any left, they can go on the cuffs), and finish the rest of the sock as is. Of course, that one is cutting it really fine. They don’t have to be perfect – they may end up just being house socks anyway.

Then I wound up my other skein of Dream in Colour Smooshy, in Chinatown Apple:

First I wound the whole skein. Then I popped it on the scale and started winding it again from the middle until the scale went down to 50g. Then I wound the rest of the ball again. I would like to try doing the Nutkin Socks two at a time in this yarn.

The bit of fluff in front of those skeins is the evil mohair from the second skein of my Duet yarn for that raglan jumper I’ve lost all desire to work on. I adore Brooks Farm, but this yarn was a poor choice for me. The fluff that ends up over everything really drives me crazy. I don’t know if I want to finish the jumper or not at this point…I’m kind of torn. I don’t know what else to do with 1000yds of wool/mohair though.

Then I wound three skeins of some bulky Noro that I forgot the name of for my mom. At that point, I was very much done winding.