Back in aught-ten I won some yarn in a Webs contest that I didn’t even know that I had entered.

The winnings.
The yarns were lovely, but I thought that the red and the blue were too luscious for socks (red is 80/20 bamboo/merino; blue is 80/10/10 merino/cashmere goat/nylon) and too bright to wear next my face in a cowl. The green (100% alpaca) was perfect as is, and I used it to knit a cowl (apparently unblogged) for a friend.
The red and blue languished in the stash for several years, then I had the glorious idea to tea-dye them to tame the colors. The red remains unphotographed, but here is the blue.

Before.

After. I find it amusing that tea-dyeing bright blue yarn turns it teal, e.g. greenish-blue.
The now-teal yarn continued to languish in the stash until a few weeks ago when the need for a turquoise-ish hat arose. I have the perfect yarn for that! Tragically, however, in the intervening years an enterprising moth had discovered the skein. I knit it anyway and just removed the damaged bits; this led to a lot of ends to be woven in…

…and a hat that bears a surprising resemblance to a squid.

But it really is a hat. And my head is much larger than Bubbles’*, so it fits me well.
- Bubbles got her name in a contest in the post linked in the first sentence above. Winner here.
I remember that unremembered contest and that yarn! All the colors were luscious! I’m glad they’re getting knit up into pretty things.
And I remember Bubbles, too! She hasn’t changed a bit! 8)
I love what the tea did to the blue!!! Perfect!
Tea Dying! Genius! I love it!