Despite two trips to the datacenter to fix a cranky server (my on-call week ends on Monday morning, thankfully), my weekend could have been a lot worse. I got to socialize and spin on Saturday evening, I got to do a little dyeing (which is still currently dripping away on the drying rack), and I managed to photograph and post a couple rovings from the Thursday night dyeing session on the Etsy store.

I dyed my first superfine Merino, which turned out to be much less delicate to deal with than I’d feared. It takes the dyes well and is amazingly soft, far softer than the “standard” 64-ct Merino I’ve been dyeing so far, and that stuff is like a fluffy cloud. I want to get some more of this soon.

I also dyed some more BFL in a copper/rust/verdigris colorway that I’m really happy with. BFL is so shimmery that the copper color looks metallic to me.

The fact that this:

turns to this:

…is why I love to spin 2-ply. I’m thinking this might end up as some wild Trekking-ish socks if I get enough yardage. I’ve just started plying this up.