The latest pair of socks have gone to their person, so I can show you them here.
They needed to be a fairly strong colour, and I didn’t have quite the right yarn. So, surprise, I overdyed three different sock yarns with food colour. Before and after pics below.
I rather like the subtle shading. They fit and seem to please my dear friend for whom they were made. Knitted toe up as usual. I’ve used the k2tog bind off for the first time. It’s good. Easy and well stretchy.
Medieval painted cloths are turning up in my feed quite a bit at the moment. I wanted a little door mat or two for reenactment camping. These are not truly medieval but will serve the purpose and painting them up was a lot more fun than the weeding that I spent the rest of yesterday doing.
Started with a couple of $1 opshop sourced placemats.
Then marked up a grid to paint into pretend medieval tiles. I used a ruler for that part and then drew up the rest by eye. The paint is cheap acrylic art paint with Jo Sonya textile medium mixed in. My first try at this paint combination.
This is the first one I did. Is ok. I learned how hard it is to paint on such a rough surface. I also decided that I wasn’t happy with the black.
Here is number two. I like this a lot better. I’d like it better still if I hadn’t used the yellow ochre. I am pleased with the terracotta colour I managed to mix up (equal parts red + yellow ochre, plus a tiny bit of black from the paint water). My silly free hand birds amuse me. Cave paintings? I tried to put a tail on one but that looked a bit too demonic so I left that off the others.
Montjoye Makkinstuff 