Lofty goals

[spacealien_vamp]

My bathroom renovation is still waiting on the shower glass and the custom door, but in the meantime, here's a mostly finished picture showing the sink side, with the shower reflected in the mirror.

The bedroom is also finished, and the crowning piece is my new bookshelf loft. The sitting area underneath has tatami mats for a Japanese feel. I'll

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[mvrdrk]

Your bathroom is gorgeous!!! I love your bookshelf loft, too. Though I would bang my head all the time.

The naturally dyed yarn is really lovely! It will make a wonderful bright contrast in colorwork or strips!

[spacealien_vamp]

Your bathroom is gorgeous!!! I love your bookshelf loft, too. Though I would bang my head all the time.

Thanks! I have banged my head on the underside of the loft, but only when I foolishly tried to stand up while still under it. Otherwise, it's actually a decent height.

The naturally dyed yarn is really lovely!

So far, most of the other dye colors I've been trying have come out some variant of beige. Not bad colors, but I'm still hoping for some richer and/or brighter options.

I think I just need to leave things to soak in the dye longer...one author has mentioned leaving the yarn in the dye for as much as four weeks. I haven't yet left anything longer than three days.

[evil_overlord]

oh, *love* the bookshelf loft! Always wanted a bed like that, ever since I saw one on the old TV show 'Alice' XD. Are the steps bookshelves too? Looks like it to me. Though I'd think the hardest thing about having a bed up high...would be making it. XD

[spacealien_vamp]

Are the steps bookshelves too? Looks like it to me.

Yep, they are.

Though I'd think the hardest thing about having a bed up high...would be making it.

The only hard corner to reach is the one tucked in the corner of the room. The others are actually pretty accessible. So as long as I do that corner first, the rest isn't too difficult.

Although I do recall one comment she made, that you want the 'natural' or 'raw' yarn, not the white, because the white's been bleached so it doesn't take color quite as well.

I've been using the "bare" line of yarns from the Knit Picks site. I view this initial batch as purely experimental, so I'm trying a number of different blends and thicknesses.

One of the things I'm planning to do on my days off this week is to go down to the bay a few blocks away and collect a few gallons of seawater. I want to see if that produces different colors compared with regular tap water. A lot of the colors are sensitive to pH and various minerals, so the results could be interesting.

That being said, natural