So here I am, standing at the counter, dyeing some Shoreline and some Dusky Beach, right? And my tub of presoaked yarns are in the sink, well enough away from my dye space.
Somehow, while rinsing an applicator and preparing a different solution, some of the wrong color splashed into the undyed yarns. [...]
I was preparing to wind off more yarns for today’s dye session(s), and trying to sort of clear up my work area a bit. I found a bunch of printed labels for some Aunt Gail dyed the other day, but I’d already wrapped and packed everything I could so I must have printed too many [...]
What a PIG!!!!!
Okay, I admit it. When I get busy working, I’m a bit of a slob.
See all those snippets on the floor there? and the paper strips that didn’t quite make the waste basket? Yeah, well, there’s a REASON for that:
Yeah, that’s right… MORE OUTGOING PACKAGES TODAY! WOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!!
And I need to [...]
Crochet Dude (Drew Emborsky) was finally given permission from his publisher that his latest book will be published and available “next fall”. This was announced on the Men Who Crochet discussion list today. Now, I’ve never had the opportunity to meet Drew, but he is well known in the world of crochet, which is a [...]
Yes, it’s the weekendend. 9:45 on a Sunday evening. “Dinner” (a Marie Callender frozen dinner) just went into the oven. “JUST” went into the oven, around 9:30-ish. But it’s okay because I didn’t get lunch until I remembered it around 4:30 or 5:00.
I dyed TWO Dozen Aunt Gails, and TWO pair of Watermelons (actually the [...]
So, I told you I’d gotten in that big bundle of yarns, right?
And that I had to convert those giant hanks into individual-sized hanks, right?
And in spite of this morning’s briskly chill weather, this afternoon the sun was out and it was warming. (Note: “warm” is a relative term!) So, brilliant man that [...]
LizzieK8 suggested I visit her blog this morning, which I did.
I’m flattered to be included in her list of top 10 blogs for the “You Make My Day” award. And she suggests that each of her ten “must list ten blogging friends and pass the honor along!”
I was tickled that Jo is listed (Celtic Memory [...]
Guess what this means:
It means there are more packages going out today! Woo-hooo!
And guess what else? I got in a BIG box today of blank sock yarns to be dyed. And Mr. Brown (butnotsohandsome–new guy) actually knocked on the door! For some weird reason I had it in my head that I had [...]
First off, the weather SUCKS! Grey, wet, cold. It hurts. Everwhere else in the entire world is enjoying season-appropriate weather, right? Even the people across the street or in the next Zip Code are completely happy with the weather. In fact, I am convinced that the only crappy weather in the world is occurring withing [...]
First, here’s the first attempt at yarns for St. Patrick’s Day, per discussions and ideas from y’all.
This is the gradient greens (green to white):
And here are two versions of the Green-and-Orange, showing the colors of the Flag of Ireland. I’m not sure I got the orange the “right” color of orange. This particular shot seems [...]
Okay, so I have yarns in soaking, and I need to run to market (again!) to pick up a box of disposable gloves, which I forgot to get yesterday.
I don’t always have time to read through allllll the different knitting, crocheting and crafting lists, but this morning I saw a note asking for a pattern [...]
Like a good person, I sat down this evening to tally up the week’s work ahead of me.
First, the Good News!!! There will be $125.00 going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure by the end of January. WOW.
As of right now this minute, I get to dye 76 hanks of yarn this [...]
I woke too early (2:30), but managed to snag 2 brief naps. It is amazing how comfortable a floor can be when the body insists it must sleep right now rightaway not a moment to loose just lie down where you are and don’t waste a single moment trying to find a [...]
You KNOW I’m HAPPY!
This is what the mail carrier took away today:
A couple dozen packages (I was too giddy to count!). GAWD that makes me feel good, y’know? And it means I am catching up for real. Woo-hooooo. I mean, I’ve been catching up for real all along, but now that packages are actually going [...]
I had JUST got done winding off Wednesday’s yarns
and grabbed the camera and I saw the mail carrier go by. DANG IT! She’s only like about FOUR HOURS EARLY!!!!! So these aren’t going in the mail today after all. Sheesh.
But the reason I needed the picture was to explain what happens what an [...]
Yeah, how about that? After a couple weeks I was finally able to rinse out the dye pots, remove the cover, and wipe down the kitchen counter. Oh my word, it is WONderful to have my kitchen counter available again. Not that it’s all that special — typical mobile home laminate surface.
I have the last [...]
and it’s only a little before 11:00 p.m. The last batch is in the steamer now — that’s 18 hanks for the evening.
And 18 more hanks ready to go for tomorrow morning. That is 36 Aunt Gails. Because of the weather, it is taking long to dry the yarns, unfortunately, so what I dyed tonight [...]
Did you know that a dye bottle of purple looks the same as a dye bottle of black … or blue… or teal when the lights go out?
When I am creating the Aunt Gail colorway I have more than a half dozen DIFFERENT bottles of dye that I need to apply. In a certain [...]
wow….. winding and packing and labeling and stamping and winding and packing and labeling and stamping and … <*whew*>
And then I ran out of Aunt Gail dyed and ready. There’s a load of Aunt Gail hanging and drying, and a bunch more Aunt Gail to dye up, and …
I just took a count of what [...]
I am glad most folks know it’s just me here doing all of this. I don’t have a staff of workers, and a warehouse of yarns I can just pluck and stuff into a bag. Granted, I used to do that, when I had yarns pre-dyed and waiting to be adopted. When adoptions dropped off [...]
