September 24, 2008 – 7:56 pm
Hand spun I’ve been working on for ages for a good friend of mine, custom colors.
100% Bamboo, currently around fingering weight, dyed after being spun, fading from brown to orange. Will be plied once fully dry to blend colors a bit. The goal is for the final knit item to resemble autumn leaves. (:
I think [...]
September 22, 2008 – 5:21 pm
Wow, it’s been a while! I’ve really missed writing here, but each time I sit down to write, I realize I don’t have much in the way of pictures of new yarns ready to share or photos of knitting progress! And the day to day stuff of running a business probably isn’t all THAT interesting. [...]
August 15, 2008 – 9:13 am
Goooood morning sunshines! (It’s not yet 10am here, and I’ve been going hard since 7:00am. Yay caffeine and techno music! Please pardon my exuberance, if you will?)
Today is a re-skeining day. Lots and lots of it! It’s a bit slow going, since I’m winding from my homemade swift to my niddy noddy. (Yes, I’ve got [...]
August 13, 2008 – 10:44 am
Whee! Good news! The new shop is thisclose to being up and running! I’ve spent the past two and a half days coding and tweaking the design to match the blog’s, and it’s ALMOST there! I’m really happy with the way it’s turning out, and only have some minor cosmetic things to tweak and a [...]
These two, Embersteel on top and Burnt Orchid on bottom, were ‘mistake batches’ from working on the wholesale order the past few months. Embersteel was much too dark and Burnt Orchid much too pink-pastel, in comparison to the final and wanted results. And neither was shimmery copper enough. But mistakes or not, I do [...]