This week I have plenty of spinning and dyeing fun aaand a giveaway to celebrate 500 subscribers on YouTube!

**500 Subscribers Giveaway**
For a chance to win this yarn, join the ravelry group (http://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-dunkelgrun-group) and find the thread for the giveaway. The thread will be open until March 17th 2017.

**FOs:**
*Shipwreck Socks*
Top Down Vanilla Sock with an Afterthought Heel (2.5 mm needles (US 1 1/2)
Main Yarn: Wolff und Schafe Yarns (https://www.wolffundschafe.com); base: Paw; colorway: Turquoise Cave
Contrasting Yarn: Dyed by myself to match (on DROPS design Fabel sock yarn).

*Dusty Morning Stretcher*
Pattern: Quaker Yarn Stretcher Boomerang by Susan Ashcroft
I threw in some eyelet rows towards the end!
Yarn: My own handspun, 16 mic merino. This fiber I dyed last year by just throwing blue yellow and magenta dyes into the pot. Then I carded that fiber into rolags and arranged them in a gradient before spinning them up and chain plying them.
The finished yarn had 208 m (227 yards) /90g. Used 5.5 mm needles, and the shawl measures about my wingspan (170 cm / 5 feet and 7 inches).

**WIPs**

*Citywool Socks*
Top Down Vanilla Socks
My first two-at-a-time socks!!
Needles: Addi bamboo 2.5 mm (US 1 1/2), cable length 100 cm / 40 inch.
Yarn: Citywool “Alfa-Spotlight Superwash”, color 6015
Swiss yarn from a swiss department store (Coop).
Comes with “Fächtli”, which is a reinforcement thread that can be knit into the heel for extra strength.

*Flower Potion*
Pattern: Fall Flower by Vera Sanon, was originally released as an MKAL.
Yarn: Malabrigo Arroyo in colorway Pocion.
Extra: Pony Knitting Calculator

*Blanket*
Pattern: memory blanket by Georgie Nicolson
Yarns are DK and worsted weight, Cast On 30 stitches for each square.

**Spinning**
*Handspun Pocion*
Malabrigo Nube (100% Merino, non-superwash) in Pocion colorway
2ply
427 m (467 yards) / 100 g
*Handspun Socks*
Superwash Wool (75%) / Nylon (25%).
First time spinning superwash, feels very weird!
Goal: A cable ply 4ply in fingering to sport weight.
Book: The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Design by Sarah Anderson.

**Dyeing Safety**
Material Safety Data Sheets of Jacquard and Dharma acid dyes (and many other fiber art supplies):
http://www.dharmatrading.com/home/safety-data-sheets-sds.html

**Podcast Recommendations**
S(tr)inging it Together with Becky
Two Tangled Skeins with Lynne, Selma and Sue
PauKnits with Pau
Wool, Needles, Hands with Tayler