Finally Got It Right, I Think

It's been about two months since getting my spinning wheel, and I've been practicing, practicing...you get the idea. I've finally created a yarn from which I actually think I can knit something. A small something, like maybe a hat, but it is way better than anything produced so far! The picture doesn't do it justice: it is light green, pale yellow and orange. Kool Aid colors. I played around with dying the combed top, rather than the spun yarn as I wanted to have a more gradual blend of colors into each other. BTW, when dying multiple colors, be aware that allowing complimentary colors to bleed together will produce some shade of brown or brownish grey. Separate the complimentaries with a color that will blend with either. In this the complimentaries were green and orange (I know, red is the opposite of green, but orange is close enough to red to produce the brown effect)and the separator was yellow. Allowing the yellow to bleed into either the green or orange did not produce any unwanted effects, just enhanced the contrast. I'm also spinning a blue shade that looks like denim spun up and I can envision making a denim-look Einsenhower jacket, if there is enough. And that is a problem with spinning, rather difficult to tell how much product one has until it is at least on the niddy noddy. With the blue, no matter how much I end up with, that is the amount I'll have to work with, since there is no more top available. It is promising to be a very lovely yarn. I've not forgotten either about my knitting. How could I? Right now I'm focusing on finishing some of the five projects I have active: A cotton summer shell is almost off the needles, only lacks finishing the I-cord on the bottom edge and it will be done...after two years! I'm pushing on finishing the wedding shawl since that must be done by September and I will still have to attach blue crystals to it after finishing and that involves fishline, blue Swarovski bicone crystals and--eeekkkk--a cigarette lighter or candle flame. Half-finished cotton socks may get done by winter (hah! They are taking so long because I'm doing both at the same time), a lovely varigated green shawl sits lone and forlorn in its bag, awaiting some sort of attention, and I try to regularly work on the prayer shawl/lap robe/cuddler I started for a friend with a dire diagnosis.