What am I letting myself in for?

One of my friends is a recent convert to crochet - which I wish to enable and encourage, naturally.  It is her birthday and we are celebrating this weekend with casual drinks at a pub.  Now she and I don't usually do presents, but I wanted to give her something small as a token of appreciation - she has been supportive in this last, nasty few months.

Given my recent success with dyeing yarn for a present, my thoughts headed down that track.  I know my friend's taste in colours but didn't want to pigeon-hole her - maybe she would like to crochet reds or oranges, or purples even?  So I trotted off to the hardware and snaffled a paint colour chart, thinking to give her a properly interactive pressie.

I chopped that colour chart up into many little pieces and found a nice little baggie for presentation. Attached was a tag on which I wrote: choose three to four colours, tell me what weight of yarn you would like and I will custom dye you a couple of skeins.  Now it may have been an odd way to offer someone yarn, but there was a good bit of amusement associated with the present.

Now she will choose some colours and I will handpaint her some yarn.  This will be an adventure for me - I have never actually handpainted yarn before.  Much fun to be had with creative challenges - just jump in the deep end.