
Well I might have accidentally ordered a skein of yarn from an Indy (spelling?) dyer on YouTube that I follow, Awenydd Yarn and Fiber, I linked her shop, you can look for her on YouTube under that name. She does a Monday podcast reworking some of her older color ways while you watch her dye, a Wednesday podcast while you watch her dye from a random selection of colors of dyes from a random generator, it’s fun, and on Fridays she talks about her works in progress etc. This was one of her reworks of an older color way, she did last week, to jazz it up a bit. I fell in love with it, I had enough extra money and ordered it. She got it right out to me and she sent me that beautiful crystal in a heart cage progress keeper as a thank you, so pretty. I’m thinking about asking her to dye up a skein of just the blue color as a tonal next month. I thought it would make a nice shawl knitting 6 rows of the blue and 3 or of the American Woman rows throughout the shawl. What do you think? I think the blue would give it some balance and depth as a shawl, beginning and ending with the blue, and the brighter colors would make it pop a bit adding excitement and the blue in the brighter colors would pull the two together :). If I was a sock knitter I would just knit socks for July, but I’m not, so there’s that :P. She has knit samples with the skeins so you can see what the yarn works up as.
Hoping everyone is fine and not suffering with the heat. We are having thunderstorms today and tomorrow, and will be in the mid 90’s on Saturday, Sunday and next Monday, with sweltering humidity, which they said would make it feel like the low 100’s, :(. This is our late July and August weather, way too soon!!! Thank goodness for air conditioning!!!
Eeek! Your weather is NOT for sissies!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your new yarn!!!! Now hurry up and knit something so we can all enjoy the fruits of your labor!!!!
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Think I’m going to have her make another skein using the blue color in this skein as a tonal so it isn’t real stark and make a shawl using both skeins with 6 stripes of the blue and 3 of the colors and play with the stripes to see how it looks. Maybe something lacey.
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Excited to see it all come together!!
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me too LOL, it will be sometime after next month, gonna be spinning all next month with Tour de Fleece!
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Ooooh, that’s right!!! Got your spinning shoes all shined up?! ❤
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Yep, will finish what I have on my wheel and I need to pull something else out that will be next, I’ll blog about that on the 1st of next month :).
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That’s very pretty yarn, I can see why you accidentally bought it.
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I don’t usually by yarn I don’t need for a specific project, but I saw this one and thought, I must have it, LOL.
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Beautiful yarn! I like your idea for the shawl too. If / when you get to it, I’ll be very interested in seeing how it works up…
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Yeah, going to order the tonal blue to go with it this next month, but it will probably be after October before I get to it :).
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