spin, span, spun, and dyed

Here's that pound of alpaca randomly dyed up.  We had a rice-cooker that was burning in spots, so we got a new one, and I appropriated the bad one for my dye experiments.I'm having a lot of fun pouring one color in on one side,  another color in on the other side, and letting them blend as the heat goes moves through them.  Blue on one side of the pot, pink on the other,on top of beige fiber.  Each skein is a different mix, so I would have to use some technique of knitting from two or three balls to keep from getting clearly defined lines,but that's no problem.  But what to knit, what to knit?  Scarves?  Shawls?  A sweater?

Well, I'm still working on knitting through the odd balls in the stash, so while I do that, I'll let this percolate and see what it wants to be.

Saturday, the July ladies' knitting soiree will be here.  If you didn't get your invitation, let me know.  I'm going to serve ice tea and lemonade, hot tea and coffee, curried chicken salad sandwiches, muskmelon balls, lemon cupcakes, chocolate shortbread, and little sugar cookies with bacon-flavored frosting. ( That bacon syrup is really sooo good!  I just shipped a bottle of it to a baking friend in Australia today and I look forward to good reports from the nether side of the globe.  )  I hope to be able to host it outside, if the weather holds.  Y'all come, y'hear?