Spin A Yarn for Ewe

I finished the sweater on Thursday night instead of Wednesday so the blocking didn't happen until Saturday. Sewing up started on Sunday and today we have this.

I still have a few ends to weave in and a few to do differently plus the crochet edging but very close. I have tried it on and it fits well. Not snug like the picture but nicely and looks great from the back per DH. Gotta love compliments from a non-knitter. I practiced the crochet today and I think I have it down well enough to try tonight.

I also got asked to teach a Kool-Aid dyeing class at the LYS that carries my handspun yarn. I am not sure why she thought I would be the best for this as I usually dye fiber not yarn but I said I would give it a go. It will be limited as far as what we can do as she really is not set up for this so I thought I would do some samples of the colors so that people can get an idea of what the flavors look like. I also have decided to use some food coloring in the class as Kool-Aid does not distribute blue flavors anymore and, well, I love blue. Here are the plain samples.
There is also a purple made with food coloring as the grape color here is gross if you ask me, more brown that purple. I guess it is different in Canada but I am not sending away for colors. The front one is grape and the back one is food color purple it could probably be mixed to make it brighter. I also did some larger skeins to show what the color looks like dyed, re-skeined and maybe knitted. Do you think anyone will care? I have never taught a class before in my life and would love input in what you would like to see in the short 2 hour class I have. Any help would be great as I don't want a bunch of bored people.

The Christmas parties were a ton of fun even if getting to the one on Friday left me feeling frazzled. I can not stand Los Angeles traffic. I mean we have traffic here but something about the drivers up there makes it even worse. Plus the normally 2 hour drive took 3+ hours leaving us about 30 minutes to get ready. Thank goodness I am not a person who takes a long time to get ready. I am also glad that we don't have any others out of town to go to.