Cat's Paw neck warmer and Green dyed Hank

I have a little Bean Neigh yarn left - it was tripled - I think I had used it like that to knit a head band. I kept putting off unwinding it into three mall ball - but eventually I got around to it but only because I could bring it to our craft groups which alleviated the boredom.

It will become a neck warmer. I wanted to try Elizabeth Lovick's Cat's Paw Scarf . I've had the pattern for a while having got it, I think, at a Ravelry event in England some years ago. It is a simple Shetland pattern with a nice balance between holes and knitted parts. I don't see the cat's paw too well in my version but I like it anyway.

Meanwhile, I'm spinning some fleece into 3 hanks of singles and plan to dye each one differently then ply then together.

The first one is a green mix, a hank (about 300 yards) of hand spun singles dyed green using a mix of yellow and blue dyes

The next hank is to be dyed blue:

The veg steamer is good for holding the yarn down in the dye pot and stop it floating out of the dye.

 And good for straining it when the yarn is taken out

Rinsing out.

The third hank (planned to be a very dark blue) is still on the wheel

Hope to add them all together by weeks end.