Somebody won two medals in the preschool Olympics. Plus he was the flagbearer in the closing ceremonies.
The Olympics was very exciting for them. They do this every year, having events like Rolling the Biggest Snowball and Sled-Pulling as well as hockey and such things, but when the Olympics are actually going on at the same time it’s extra-special. They got to watch bits of the real thing at lunchtime, and the boy told us all about building an inukshuk and spray-painting it with food colouring yesterday. I really hope that they took pictures of everything, because I’d love to see it all.
[ETA: I have just been told that the final event was Ice Cream Eating. His win in this event pushed him from the silver to gold medal standing. That’s hilarious.]
And here at home, this is what the bobbins of the singles from the crockpot-dyed fibre looked like:
(Sorry about that third one; I had begun plying them and belatedly realised that I needed a picture, so it isn’t very clear. It’s the only one I took, so it’s all we’ve got.)
And the plied yarn:
[ETA: This is actually a good example of how different yarn looks when different plying techniques are applied to the same singles. In the first photo, standard three-ply yarn is at the top of the photo, and chain-plied yarn at the bottom. The difference is that regular three-ply has three different strands coming from three different bobbins, whereas chain plying uses a single strand pulled through a loop made earlier in the strand. It’s essentially single crochet plus twist. Regular three-ply can look barber pole-y; chain-plied preserves colour change along the strand, so there’s less contrast and a smoother, more subtle shift in colour from one end of the finished plied yarn to the other.]
Look at that proud smile! Your son is adorable!
And I’m totally loving that yarn. What’s the WPI?
Oh my gods – he’s so BIG!!!
Very, very pretty yarn.
I achieved a quite pretty brown by boiling buckthorn twigs, then simmering yarn in the twig-water. Am now trying for blue. Will blog about it soon, hopefully Sunday or Monday.
Ceri: It’s a three-ply, so I suspect it’s heavy worsted or Aran weight. I am too lazy to find my wpi tool.
Jan: He’s standing on the chest in front of the window, so he looks taller than he is… but having said that, he’s two-thirds my height and more than two-thirds my weight.
He looks so much like his dad in that photo!
That yarn is so pretty. You really have a gift for dying. (There’s something very morbid-sounding about that,, like the title of a murder mystery, but you know what I mean!)
xox
Of course, it would have helped if I had spelled it “dyeing” rather than “dying.” Sorry about that! (But it’s still a good title for a murder mystery. The corpse is found in a vat of dye in some factory. Indigo maybe.)
Speaking of Indigo, Jan if you’re interested in such things, you can actually buy and grow your own indigo plants. There’s a tutorial on it somewhere in the Yarn Harlot archives.
Ice cream eating! LOL!!! Sounds like a really great day all around.
I should point out that the ice cream eating was evaluated on speed of consumption, not the quantity ingested… :)