Yay! It’s done!! Actually, it was done a couple weeks ago. I was just too afraid to add one more thing to the madness that reigns supreme in my life these days.
I also had all of these panic thoughts like, what if no one reads it? Then, the other side of the coin, what if everyone reads it? Yikes! Truly a canNOT win situation that stops you dead in your tracks.
So I am just leaping off the edge and whatever happens . . . happens!
I have several goals that I would like to achieve with this blog. The first is to have a place where we can keep you updated on changes and news here in an easy and friendly manner.
This would be the General News category. It involves announcements like “We are going to add in colorways on this date” or “Oops, we’re late on getting this pattern to the printer, so please bear with us for another week.
The second goal is to share a bit of what goes on at Blue Moon practically and also what comes into play on the creative, inspirational end for me. All of that will be in the depraved dyer category.
Third, we have had such a great time with contests and games in the Rockin’ Sock Club that I want all of our customers to be able to join the fun. So this blog gives us a place to have contests, games and KAL’s. Which brings us to the Contest and KAL categories.
The categories are really just here to make searching easier. We will be adding in new features as we progress and learn what works and what does not.
Last, and certainly not least, the blog is intended to expand on and celebrate the community that we are lucky enough to be a part of.
And . . . there is a huge header for photography. I take a lot of pictures and use them to document what I am working on. I also do a quite a bit of the Blue Moon photography. Adding this feature to the blog is a great way to share my initial inspiration visually and track progress. It also makes the blog pretty.
The photo there now is a tide pool rock on the Oregon coast. I’ve been spending a lot of time there during the past few months, rejuvenating and writing. It has proved to be quite a restful and fertile time and place for me. So much color and texture and just astounding combinations of both. I often come back so full I feel as if I am going to burst. (I scared the barn girls the first time I came back. I pulled right up to the barn jumped out and went straight to the dyes and yarn! No hello lovelies or anything, just straight to the color.)
I think I have taken more than 3,000 photos since I started this process and filled several notebooks. All of the pictures are like the one you see here—just loaded with oceany goodness. I think one of my favorite things about the plants and creatures that inhabit this part of the ocean is that while they are certainly fascinating and yes, beautiful, they are also a wee bit gross. One day, there was a nine-year-old boy watching me take photos who was just a delightful companion. When he was done with me,he ran off to his dad. I heard him say that the ocean was so cool and way gross. So funny! I laughed so hard almost fell off my rocky perch. He is right, way cool and gross.
I am using the current blog photo as a screen saver. My initial thought in putting it on my desktop was that it would visually stimulate the deep recesses of my brain and then new colors would magically seep out. But, honestly, I just love looking at it. This doesn’t help with that whole getting work done thing, but lucky for me, it is my work!
So I was thinking it would inspire new colorways. Right? Makes sense. Well, the more I look at it, the more I see colorways that I have already created. I still see new ones, but it has been really cool to see some of my good color friends here. Such as . . . oh no, it would be too easy to just tell you. I smell a contest! A brand new blog celebratory contest. Let’s try this.
I see ten colorways in the photo. Most of them are on the website now, but some are not. The first ten knitters to guess at least five of these will receive a skein of STR in the Rare Gems Colorway. The deadline is July 25th. Please email your guesses to
Ready, set, guess!
