4 Gallons worth of energy.

…All packed inside one single 7 year old.  On Wednesday last week, we dyed yarn for Nora’s Yarn Club – the 2nd installment.  I was sure it would take us 2 evenings, I mean how much can one 7 year old do in one evening?  Apparently, quite a bit.

**Warning!  If you don’t want to ‘see’ your Nora Club yarn #2 yet, SKIP THE REST!!**

4 gallons’ worth of dye, 26 skeins of yarn and one dinner break.  I was exhausted and she was ready for more. 

Nora’s yarn shipped officially Monday, complete with goodies.  Her chosen theme, was ‘Oceans’.  We’ve been looking at ocean pictures for a solid week, comparing blues and greens and beaches etc.  We looked at oceans via the Int’l Space Station (http://twitpic.com/1gklve) and google searches on ‘ocean colors’ (http://tinyurl.com/2akx55m).  When it finally came time to dye the yarn, she picked out 2 blue/green dyes and we blended them to get it ‘just right’.  Then I asked her what other blue?  Maybe this aqua?  No. 

“Mom, I need some bright pink…”. 

Pink?  “Nora, the ocean isn’t Pink.” 

She looked at me as if I’d grown another head. 

“Mom.  The Fish?  Hello?”

The FISH.  We’re dyeing the FISH in the Ocean.  (I must have missed the memo.)

Ok. Brain regroup.  No problem.  You want Fish?  We gotz Fish.

(I like how in this picture, it looks like the fish has his mouth open.)

Georg seems to have come up with an appropriate stitch pattern with a little ‘wave’ action going on – here’s a picture of her ‘ocean’ sock so far:

Here’s the stitch pattern (based on 32 stitches on top, 64 after the heel.)

Row 1 and all odd rows: Knit.
Row 2: (K2tog, k6, yo)4
Row 4: (K2tog, k5, yo, k1)4
Row 6: (K2tog, k4, yo, k2)4
Row 8: (K2tog, k3, yo, k3)4
Row 10: (K2tog, k2, yo, k4)4
Row 12: (K2tog, k1, yo, k5)4
Row 14: (K2tog, yo, k6)4
Repeat sequence at Row 1.

Cool, eh?  Feel free to knit along!

As with Nora’s Butterfly Yarn, your colors will vary, depending on the colors Nora used on your particular skein.  The yarn also came with Stitch Markers with an Ocean/Fish theme and guess what?  The Dolphin stitch marker glows in the dark wicked bright.