Oooh, Lisa will likey! Very nice, and so much more wearable. We'll have to watch out for you and the dye pots next year when the boys go to school... this could turn into something much bigger... cue evil laughing! Hope you and S are feeling better.

Ohh, I like how it turned out! Gorgeous!

Very pretty color! I know more than a few of us would gladly take it if your knitbud doesn't ;o)

ooh! It looks lovely! All your dyeing talk has me itching to dye something...you're such a temptress!

I've seen so many wonderful dyed skeins this morning. Makes me wish I was at home to do some dyeing of my own. Hope we'll see pictures of that one knitted up.

It's lovely! I have my own skein of merino/cashmere that was given to me that is sort of pee-pee color. I was planning to overdye it at some point after I get my dyeing studio set up in the basement.

Transmutation: pee pee to chocolate.
What will they think of next? ;o)

It's beautiful. let's hope it's not called poo poo.
But did you realize that you made it Friday? I too am anxious for the weekend, but i'm having a special treat tonight so let's not wish Thursday away! :)

You know, I really liked that cream/pale yellow color, until I read this post. Thanks a lot.

(The chocolate is very nice, though.)

Nice transformation!

Doh, got ahead of myself there, didn't I, Shireen? Thanks! Wouldn't want to miss Thursday and our big plans! ;0)

And yes, Shireen, I thought of the poop thing too, luckily this brown really doesn't remind me of that at all. Phew! Turning number 1 into number 2 wouldn't really be much of an improvement, now would it? It's all crap! (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

Haha, More of my yarn! I thought it was cream colored when I bought it, and it was, in fact peepee! Lisa and I swapped that...umm..definitely not on the day of the swap! ;)

i am the luckiest girl in the world...i have a friend that can turn unloved swap yarn (courtesy of hamster) into the most beautiful shade of brown...thank you, thank you. can't wait to embark on my very first shawl...see you friday!!!

I, too, have some hideously colored yarn from Handpainted Yarns. I've concluded that none of their yarns look as good in person as they do on-line.

Thanks for the over-dying idea. Love the chocolate!

Oh, yeah, that is gorgeous...just like a choice piece of dark chocolate, broken apart. Just lovely, Alison!

Gorgeous!

Beautiful yarn! Although I most admit my first reaction was the same as Shireen's. Being the mother of 2 boys has conditioned me to think that way :-)

Boy, if you could do that in real life, I don't know whether I'd celebrate or swear off chocolate forever.
Lovely laceweight, by the way. Don't you hate it when you dye something meant for someone else, and it comes out so beautiful you practically cry when you have to give it back?

Gorgeous! Actually I liked both colors, but now I am hungry for chocolate. (I'm ignoring the comment on the color of the yellow yarn; that kind of puts you off chocolate for a bit).

That's a gorgeous dye job! Wow!

Great job!! I love the color(s). Beautiful!

I take it you've never heard the term Y.O.U. It's the natural dyer's acronym for You're Own Urine., not an uncommon thing (I was going to use the word ingredient, but thought better of it) to use in traditional dyeing techniques. Just to clarify, I'm not THAT hard-core of a natural dyer.
I've also heard the term "blah beige" used in the dyeing world for colors like that that could use an overdyeing. That one might have been a bit too yellow to be called beige though. The chocolate color is a huge improvement.

i've been dyeing off and on all week, lol. and you and your "chocolate!" good thing i'm eating some already.

it's very nice, though

Yum! Nuf said.

perfection!

I was going to say something about being careful about comparisons to bodily fluids when going from yellow to BROWN, but now I think I'll just agree with the other commenters about how lovely this turned out -- a sort of tortoise-shell effect.

pee,pee...she sounds Isareli to me :-)

oh wait, it just dawned on me as I wrote it...it's an English word also...

I can't imagine that she wouldn't like it- it looks lovely! so rich and dark.