Kate's enthusiasm for the yarn I made with the shades of red roving inspired me to actually complete her scarf right away. I used the Branching Out lace pattern from Knitty. 
It's blocking on the living room floor right now.I've also been busy this morning attempting to make self-striping sock yarn. I used Scout's idea on Knitty Gritty for making a warping board suited to this purpose .., and incorporated ideas from other sources ... and my own. I'm using an inexpensive peg board from the hardware store that has holes spaced 1" apart.
I knitted a 10 row swatch in the round using sock yarn and #2 double points, then I pulled it apart and measured it (not counting the cast-on -- which was not considered a row). Dividing by 10 indicated that each row of knitting consumed 30.8 " of yarn.
I knew I wasn't going to be able to be exact and that 15" is a lot easier to wind than 30", so I rounded down and placed my pegs 15" apart. Winding around the pegs twice would equal 1 row of knitting (approximately).
To have more than one stripe color, though, I needed more than one set of pegs. I set a second and third set of pegs on the peg board in the arrangement below:
I decided how I wanted the stripes arranged and then wound on the yarn (2 rounds for each row of knitting). My pattern was to have 8 rows of color #1, followed by 2 rows of color #2, then 5 rows of color #3, and 2 rows color #2 again -- and repeat. I wanted to use Fibonnacci numbers for all of my rows. Next, I'll choose colors and do the actual dying. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I think I'll drip some wax on the yarn at the place where it changes colors to keep it from bleeding. I tied the skein for each color in three places, but I can see that it will probably be a challenge to rewind the yarn into a skein without too many tangles. Also, as I was winding the skeins, the dowels I used for pegs tended to bend inward, making the distance between the pegs even shorter. I tried to wind loosely, but it may not look exactly right.
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