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we haven't broken it in yet, but this is our new toy. i think i'll bake some bread today.

speaking of bread, our dinner last night:

baked cheese with wine on toast
(adapted from veg cooking for everyone, deborah madison)

preheat oven to 400
mix 2 eggs, 2 c cheese [we used cheddar, parm and comte], 1/4 c white wine.
spread mixture on four slices of italian or other bread
melt 2 tbsp butter in a skillet, add 1/4 c white wine, nestle bread into skillet
bake 15 minutes, then broil for a minute to brown the cheese

back to the dyepot

I'm trying to get some yarns done for Homespun Yarn Party - someday, I'll get ambitious and create a similar event up here on the Seacoast. 

I think it's time to really start recording how I make some of these colors. It'd be nice to be able to replicate some of my efforts, sometimes. Right now, I have a pretty good instinct for how much water to how much dye, and which colors to blend to make new ones that go together, but sometimes I'm sad when the yarns go off to sale knowing I'll never be able to make ones I like again.

These guys are springy colors, since I'm starting to yearn for spring. The bottom picture is my friend Emily's first attempt at dyeing - I love the eggplanty colors together and some of the blends that her different colors made when they ran into each other.