Everything turned out better than expected!

In my last post, I was convinced that my yarn dyeing experiment had been a failure.  I couldn't have been farther from the truth!  Once they dried, both of the yarns I died in black beans were surprisingly, beautifully colored!  The yarn that started out white ended up having a nice mixture of beige and baby blue with spots of red from the yarn I tied the skein with.

I am most enamored with the alpaca yarn.  Where it was a light brown, it picked up a light, silvery blue that compliments it's dark brown streaks perfectly.  I am so pleased with the results, it is better than I could have hoped for!

The transformation from fiber to yarn has been an amazing one, and a fantastic, though lengthy, process.  Just to give myself (and you) a visual representation of this process, I compared the yarn with a small piece of the original fiber.

As you can see, I wound both of my skeins of yarn into balls.  This is a personal choice and is not necessary.  Yarn can be kept in skeins until you are ready to use them.  I chose to wind them into a ball so the crochet process would go more smoothly.
The next, and final step, is to wind these beautiful works of art into a fabric!  Please comment with your suggestions of what I should make.  I have about 178 feet of the alpaca yarn, and considerably more of the other yarn.