Funeral Party -- i.e. We Dyed Yesterday

Here we go sports fans. Inspiration abounded, experience lacked, but we went ahead and tried dying. Here are the history-making (Margaret Bourke-White inspired) photos:
First, we have Erin painting the roving.

We had already painted her handspun yarn using blues, purple, and brown.
Now we're using blues, teal, golden yellow, and leaf green. (Wilton dyes, I should add) Here's the roving ready to roll up in the plastic wrap.

Next we used the good-old crockpot to steam the packages:

Here's Erin's yarn in the process of rinsing. Great colors!

Ooooo....ahhh...look at that roving!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...Erin got GB started on the spindle. Addictive?

About this time, we decided to try an in-the-pot, rainbow dye experiment with the leftover dye stock. Erin mixed some more brown and some red, and we had golden yellow, purple and leaf green leftover. Here it is rinsing. Oh my...we created a monster!

And the big finale...Deep Greens & Blues (ala James Taylor) roving, and Someone Killed My Hobbit or Bloody Gnome roving. There's also a small skein of thick and thin yarn, too. Actually, those are a little more brown than they look, but more red than desired.

I didn't get a good picture of Erin's finished yarn, but it's fabulous. She's working on a hat right now, so I'm sure she'll have pictures soon on her Dreemskaype blog.