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Something About Yarn and Then OMG TEH CUTE.

Holy cow, am I tired.
I wish being so tired right now was because I’ve been dyeing like mad to restock the shop, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. No matter how badly the shop rather suddenly needs restocking. *glee*
(It’s been a great week on that front, seriously, shock and glee all week. I just wish [...]

Orkney Pi & Free Yarn

I’ve had my doubts if I’d ever get through the Section 2 trees of the Pink Orkney Pi shawl. Especially after having to frog the ENTIRE SHAWL 5 rows into Section 2 the first time, and then ripping back to the end of Section 1 lifeline the second time.
(What? The trees were not lining up [...]

Color & Contrast: Yarn Desktops

It’s been a while since I took yarn artsy fartsy photos worth setting as my desktop. However,  the new bamboo colors have been calling to me. With the addition of the newest three colors, it was just too much to resist.
(Besides, I’ve always been a sucker for rainbow order and good contrast.)
Long story short, [...]

Bullets: Blogging Helpers for the Brain Fried

Despite running my own yarn shop of sorts, I still feel like I don’t have enough yarn:

I really need to dye more of my sock yarn. This is all that is left:

I also really need to dye more Koi. This is all I have left of this one:

The good news is that I have 2 [...]

Ooo, Shiny!

Have spent the past two days dyeing non-stop. Seventy plus hanks of yarn dyed. Yes, seventy. Seven-zero, 70. If you count the past four days, the total is just over 90.
Really and truly, that is a lot of yarn. And a lot of work. And a lot of dye.
Exhaustion aside, I’ve loved every minute of [...]