So as not to be a tease...

And to honor IrishGirlie's wish, I present to you the two Scout colorways I purchased this past weekend...

These are two of her newest colorways that have been crockpot dyed: Fresh Basil and Elycerose (hmmm...sounds like some fancy modern baby name...). They photographed a bit less blue than they actually are. The Fresh Basil is a bit more limey-green-ish and the Elycerose is a tad more violet blue, rather than gray.

And here, Scout poses with her new line-up of colors! Yeah, I was taking my pic from a different angle!
And, if course I was dying to knit up the self-striping yarn I had just dyed! So I cast-on for what was supposed to be a picot-cuffed plain vanilla pair. But alas, somehow I started knitting and came up with a twisted stitch patterning.

As I explained, (hmmm...or did I?)...I came home Sunday afternoon and that evening got inspired to dye my second skein to 'match'. Unfortunately, I neglected to recall that the Sky Blue made earlier was higher in ratio of water to dye, as compared to the other mixtures. I also think I made my brown a bit lighter than what was available in class. Ah, yes...different tones!

So now I think I will be knitting the cuffs from both skeins, and continue the remainder of the sock with the second color.

My hand-dyed 'self striping' fingering weight yarn-the sock is being knit from the darker skein on the left; I'll use the lighter tone skein for the foot.