I had some beautifully hanks of yarn that I dyed yesterday.  These are early shots fresh from their steaming pouches before they went into the wash-rinse process:

I have been rinsing yarns in this new washing machine for over a year.  I KNOW which cycle to use and generally do two rinse-and-spin cycles, very little agitation.  The first cycle ended and since I was doing something else, I opened the machine, closed the machine, and set it for the second cycle.  Apparently I failed to check to be sure it was on Rinse-and-Spin, because I now have six pounds of beautiful dreadlock-like hanks of yarn.  There is NO WAY I am going to invest the time required to smooth these all out into knittable yarns.

I don’t know what to do with it, but I’m sure there are clever crafters who can use it for a variety of fun things, like a base for needle felting, or just braiding them into coasters or something.  I will let these dry and then I’ll post them as Twinsets pairs on the BRS page at $15 for each Twinset.  At full price (i.e., $27.00 each hank), I am now out $648.00 at the end of the month when my major bills are due so I’m basically screwed.   If I sell these at craft-making discount I’ll at least make a little bit.

• Update – a clever crafter has claimed the entire batch, so they are all sold

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