Making a birthday present

This is 200g worth of 4 ply weight merino and nylon sock yarn that I have dyed myself as a gift for my mother.

I chose to dye commercially spun for her since it will probably be easier for her to put this stuff to use over my handspun. It is superwash, which I really appreciated whilst dying it because I could turn it over and move it around and really build up a lot of colour in there. believe it or not the first colour was a full bath of peach! I moved from peach and yellow to adding green and blue and ended up at this forest green with ochre, burgundy, teal and gold running through it. It has a lot of depth. I'm not sure I would be able to achieve that on roving because of the felting fear! I had thought to go all the way into the blue spectrum but I stopped here mostly because I thought it looked cool and didn't want to go too far and ruin it (I am a more is more person so this took a good deal of willpower).

I'm going to wrap them in some little Happy Birthday labels so it looks 'pro'. Hope she likes it!