Summer and dyeing

I am lying in the garden in the sun, talking to the cats and the smiorgan as they wander past living their lives, and opccupying myself by idling on the internet, writing a roleplaying game, thinking about knitting, and considering just closing my eyes for a moment... :-)

And my hands are purple from my second yarn-dyeing experiment, which is at this moment in the oven, baking its colour in. The first experiment was shades of green on cream base wool, and my mother, for whom it was a gift, seemed very happy with it when I gave it to her (in the shape of a bag) yesterday. This experiment is reds and blues and purples, and is for me, but the base wool is grey, which might be too dark for it to work. Still, what's the point of an experiment if there's no risk? (For those who are interested, there's more detail and pictures of the green bag at my knitting blog.)