Fiber Monday - Something different

How about something other than sewing? 

Yesterday was a fiber workshop day and the participants and I did a little natural dyeing. I still had a bunch of goldenrod in the yard, so that is what we used. Here's how it turned out. 

This is some Club Forest fleece that the same group and I washed a while back. It came out a really interesting yellowy-green color. There still seemed to be quite a bit of color in the pot, so I have another batch cooling. Since it is an exhaust batch, I anticipate it being a little lighter. It could make a nice gradient all spun up. 

I also finished threading the loom and am on the last step before beginning to weave. I'm very excited to see what this looks like woven.

And those socks I mentioned I was going to knit? Well, they're not socks anymore. When I bought the yarn, I guess I didn't look at the label carefully because it's a super wash wool. I don't know what I was thinking because I don't really care for super wash wool. The texture when I knit a swatch was really not saying socks to me. At all. Instead, it felt more like a sweater, but I only had two skeins of it which limited my possibilities. A tank top would be perfect both because they don't need much yarn and because the yarn really feels like it wants to be a summery kind of top. Here's what I settled on.

This also fits the bill of me wanting a slightly more complicated project. If you look closely, you'll see that there are little cables going down the neckline. I'm on all of row 12, and the cable needle has seen quite a bit of use.