KnitterMan

A few weeks ago, Golden Tracks asked me to create a yarn for her friend Gaylen’s dog Beauregard James:

You can see the resulting yarn in between his legs, sorta in a shadow.   Here’s another picture of the finished yarn:

Pretty cool, huh?    Gaylen writes:

When I first saw it - I thought it was a bit too dark to be Beau, but when you put it next to him it’s completely his coloring. I’m totally knitting something with paw prints from this one.

Follow the links above you can read more.

I thoroughly enjoy honoring people’s pets, and I’m usually concerned about not capturing the colors just exactly right, since I’m usually working from a digital photograph and not personally meeting with the dog or cat.   So I’m especially grateful when people who know the animal can vouch for the match.

Speaking of animals … with the new neighbor on the property here, there came a tiny little yapper dog, without an ‘off’ switch, named Gizmo (I can’t remember what he said it was — not a Shi Tsu, or a Peke or Pom, either  …. dang, I can’t remember, but it’s one of those little ones)  and a huge Great Dane named Fancy.   Fancy is SUCH a scaredy-cat.   She looks across the concrete pad between our trailers to see if I’m on my porch and if so, she won’t come out to do her thing without a lot of coaxing.

Anyway…. back to work.   Just another dozen yarns to dye and I’m caught up — except the ones yet to dye haven’t entirely arrived from the mill.   This afternoon I think I will dye up the yarns for the PostCard Challenge.

OH HEY!   Ya wanna hear something freaky?    Yesterday I was doing a custom order…. she wanted solid colored sock yarn in “John Deere” colors (yeah, like the tractors and farm equipment).    I dyed up the green, the yellow, and the brown, as requested.   This morning, as I took everything from their wrappers, I noticed (with a great amount of horror) that the yellow had large quarter-sized splotches of green!   OMG how could that happen?   The green dye had been emptied, the jars washed, the counters wiped and clean plastic wrap laid out before the yarn came anywhere near.    I knew I would have to re-dye the yellow today, but I put everything into the wash and rinse process.    And when I went to hang it all up for drying I noticed that the big giant green splotches on the yellow were GONE!   Well, okay, there are two tiny pinhead-sized green dots that I can see, but the really bad parts are simply not there now.   How the heck did that happen????