Black-out Now Available!
I was trying to put the Black-Out option (shown in previous blog post) into the order form, to make purchasing yarn a one-pass process, but the PayPal shopping cart buttons don’t seem to be as flexible as I need.
But I’ve put it there to the Custom-Dyes page as a clearly visible option that can be applied to any of the regular colorways or almost any custom colorways. The reason for the additional charge is that once a skein is dyed, I have to reskein it, bind off certain areas to protect the colors, and then overdye in black for a second complete dye process.
Why do it? Why not just get a fancy commercially dyed yarn with a similar effect? Well, besides being able to get the colors you want, you can order it on the yarns you want.
I’ve also edited the Buy a Cone Options — instead of two free skeins when you buy a cone for Knitivity, you now get THREE skeins. So if you need three or more skeins of yarn, it makes sense to go to the Buy-a-Cone Page. 🙂
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Very, very cool Ray. Any idea how it will knit up??
Later,
Lisa
Not yet. The original (photographed yesterday) just went into the mail bound for Chicago, and I’m not sure how soon she will get it knit up. I’ve got some other laceweight coming, and may try it again with different colors, and maybe on one of the unadopted sock yarns. If I do that I’ll run up a stockinette swatch or two on the machine.
But considering the spans of color and black, I’m thinking 4-5 stitches of black, then 3-4 stitches of color.