Trick or Treat
Smell our wool clad feet.
Give us something sweet to eat knit!!
As most of you know it’s our favorite time of year here at Blue Moon. All the colour and wonder that is autumn from fields full of pumpkins, hay rides through corn mazes, hot apple cider to, last but certainly not least, a little spooky All Hallows Eve goodness.
So…. as mentioned in my earlier post and in celebration of all of these haunted hues, we’ve added to the website, for a short run, Trick or Treat Bags.
As you can see from the picture above, we’ve had a massive amount of fun putting these together for your haunting colour work knit pleasure, we’re considering them as a seasonal offering. I feel you can use these for just about anything your hallowed hearts desire from hats to socks and all they lies between. Even if what lies in between is a skeleton suit or a pumkin cozy. I want a pumpkin cozy!
We also have a little Trick contest and naming game:
Since it is our favorite season we’re celebrating in the way we know best… colour! We have new colourways that are on the website in their normal way, all named and categorized.
What we also have is, 10 new colourways that we’ve hidden throughout the website. These colourways need naming and we thought maybe you’d like to help us with that. After you find them of course. (That’s the trick part.)
Here’s how we envision this working.
The finding part:
The first 4 knitters to find the whereabouts of all 10 wins a 15% off coupon from us. Please submit these on the blog post titled Trick or Treat.
The naming part:
We need names for all 10. You can play by just choosing a name for the one that speaks to you or you can submit names for all 10.
We ask that you only submit one name per skein (each individual colourway).
Submit your choices in the comment section of the the Trick or Treat blog post.
Once you start finding them you’ll see how you can associate and submit the name for that particular colourway. They are marked in a way that will make that easy and obvious. We just don’t want to give too much away.
We learned the last time we did this just how smart you all are. And really we should’ve known.
The Treat part! What’s in it for you? Well…there’s the glory of your chosen name on our yarn. If that is not enough you can choose between the skein you’ve named or a 10% off coupon for the website. And as always our undyeing gratitude .
The Trick and Treat contest runs from today (Thursday October 18th) to Wednesday October 24th at 2:00 pm Pacific time.
I, your depravedDyer will then have my wicked way with your name choices. I love this part!!
And yes the new colourways are available to purchase as their as of yet unnamed selves.
Remember we are a very tightly plied bunch here so the wackier and weird the name the better. You can explain your reasoning behind your name choices. We love a good story.
Paula and Heather do request that the names be no more than 5 words long. It has to fit on a yarn band.
I think that covers it. As always email with any questions
May the naming force be with you!
Happy (almost) Halloween
Your Blue Moon Witches!
ps. Do you know what kind od closet out Witchy poo is knitting in and then what that means about the yarn cake?
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That, my friends is a water closet. Growing up we called them Kybos. Does that mean the yarn cake is pee green?
8,5,4,9,7,6,10,3,2 – BFL Sport
1 – STR lightweight
Now to my naming
BFL Sport – Eight, Five, Four, Nine, Seven, Six, Ten, Three, Two
Socks that Rock Lightweight – all of the above plus One
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 on STR mediumweight
10 – BFL Sport
Now… names…
bfl sport page – 8, 5, 4, 9, 7, 6, 10, 3 and 2
on the str lw page, the same plus there’s a 1 there too
STR heavyweight: 8 5 9 17 6 10
Silkie STR: 1 2 3
BFL mix roving: 4
Geisha: 7
BFL Sport 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Socks that rock light weight one
oh wait in addition to what I already put, they are on the STR mediumweight page -
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2
and on hw page
8 5 9 1 7 6 10 2
geisha
8 5 9 1 7 6 3 2
BFL Sport Page – Eight, Five, Four, Nine, Seven, Six, Ten, Three, Two
STR Pages – Eight, Five, Nine, One, Seven, Six, Ten, Two
They’re hidden behind other names.
One – Christmas Balls
Two – Gail’s Autumn Joy
Three – Rue de Pond Scum
Four – Winterberries
Five – Ciruela
Six – Lodestone
Seven – Tanzanite
Eight – Princess Plummy
Nine – Ravenscroft
Ten – Irish Girlie Green
Two is saying to me “brownshirts”, as in Firefly…
Eight – Ocean’s depths
Five – Red Riding Hood – I think the red/brown bit looks like her cloak and the greens the forest she walks through
Seven – forest pools
One – Sky in the evening – our sky sometimes goes just that purply-pink at the end of the sunset; with the dark bluey-black in the already dark sky
And that’s all I got.
BFL Sport – 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Geisha – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9
STR lightweight – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10
STR mediumweight – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
STR heavyweight – 1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10
STR silkie – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10
Twisted – 2,3,4,6,7,9,10
it’s me again.. i Have a sneaking suspicion that whoever wins the gift cert has to find ALL the times it’s listed and where, not just one instance of each. So melissa got part of it, I got part of it, etc…. went back to look AGAIN and found more places it shows up, namely in addition to wht I posted, now
silkie STR 8 5 9 1 7 6 10 3 2
twisted 4 9 7 6 10 3 2
…. and if I don’t get back to work I’m gonna get fired
1 – Aubergine Evening
2 – Desert Morning
3 – Forest Floor
4 – Russett Sunset
5 – Eggplants and Berries
6 – Summer Evening
7 – Beanstalk to the Sky
8 – Under the Sea
9 – Rusty Skies
10 – Down & Dirty Blues
I agree – it’s a water closet. So it’s a urinal cake!
Proposed names:
One: Seahorses
Two: Distinguished
Three:The Rain in Spain
Four: Dragon Scales
Five: Chameleon
Six: Bullfrog
Seven:Meadowlark
Eight: Jellyfish Dancing
Nine: Muddy Blue Jeans
Ten: Old copper penny
They’re all so pretty!
I forgot the Rovings
BFL mixed roving – 1,2,3,4,5,8,9
BFL tussah silk – 1,2,3,4,5,8,9
Bombyx silk – 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9
Mawatas – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9
merino/bamboo – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Merino/Mulberry Silk – 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9
Merino/Yak – 1,2,4,5,8,9
Polworth – 1,2,4,5,8,9
Silk Bell Caps – 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9
I would call Number One “Tears of a Peacock.”
I see unnamed yarns in the BFL Sport, Geisha, Socks That Rock (STR) Lightweight, STR Medium Weight, STR Heavy Weight, Silkie STR, Twisted.
Name Suggestions in alpha order
Eight – Stormy Night
Five – Bugs Delight
Four – Ghouls Drink
Nine – Best Friends
One – Mulled Evening
Seven – Black Nights
Six – Summer Evening
Ten – More Friends
Three – Chocolate Forest
Two – Morning Skies
My favorite are #9 and #10. Best Friends and More Friends.
Ruby
Mythology is fun.
1 – Loowit, a Puyallup mountain goddess seen as an old woman. She wept for being transformed to an old woman, and a great leader with the power of immortality bestowed the gift upon her. Upon changing to a beautiful maiden, the leader’s sons fought for her love and Loowit, unable to choose between them, was punished by the god Sahale and transformed into the mountain we know as St. Helens.
2 – Bakwas, Kwakiutl king of ghosts. He haunts the forests, appearing to be small and green, with a crooked nose, and tries to lure the living to his realm.
3 – Ab’shustek. A Duwamish legend of Lake Sammamish says that brave warriors invaded from the east, across the mountain. They terrified the Duwamish, and to protect them, the spirits changed the Yakamah warriors into a stand of strong and beautiful trees that were still painted with small patches of red war paint.
4 – Bear Mother, the origin of the Haida tribe’s Bear Clan, was a well-to-do woman who was kidnapped by a village of bears. She married one and loved him very much. Her human brothers, though, came to rescue her, and her bear husband sacrificed himself to save her. Her children (and all the children after) had a deep understanding and ken with bears from there forward, thus creating the Bear Clan.
5 – Sisiutl, the Kwakiutl god in the form of a sea serpent, who turns all adversaries to stone. He has three heads, and has been known to transform to a mythical war canoe to aid in sea battles.
6 – Malahas, the evil forest goddess from Klikitat mythology who steals children into the forests.
7 – Tsequiami, from the Kwakiutl, who is an old man who emerges from a tree, and who helped the heroic ancestors by placing large spruce beams for them when building.
8 – Thunderbird, lord of the winter dance season in Kwakiutl tribes, who is a massive supernatural bird whose wing beats cause the thunder, and the flash of whose eyes causes lightning.
9 – Deer Woman, from several Northwest Tribes (among others). Half woman, half deer, with vibrant blue eyes and the body of a whitetailed deer. Seeing her was a sign of great personal transformation.
10 – U’melth is the Raven, who brought the Kwakwaka’wakw people the moon, fire, salmon, the sun and the tides. He flies in a clear blue sky and alights in the deep evergreens.
Yarns sport 854976,10 3 2
Geisha 854917632
Bfl 854976 10 32
Silkie 859176 10 32
Sport 8549761032
STR lt 8591761032
Medium854917632
Twisted 49761032
Heavyweight 850176102
Mataram 85917632
Silk bell cap 85491762
Poll worth 854912
Merino yak 854912
Merino bamboo 854917632
Merino silk 8549761032
Bombed silk 85491632
Leicester tussah 8549132
Leicester mix 8549132
New colourways can be found in BFL 2-9; Socks that Rock Lightweight includes #1.
Name for #3: Ratatouille because I love food and it includes all the colors of the vegetables you’d find in the dish!
Where to find them…
1—Christmas Balls
2—Gail’s Autumn Joy
3—Rue de Pond Scum
4—Winterberries
5—Ciruela
6—Lodestone
7—Tanzanite
8—Princess Plummy
9—Ravenscroft
10—Irish Girlie Green
All the unnamed colors are listed when you click other colors:
Christmas Balls = 1
Gail
9 – Land and Sky
Since a lot of people have already shown the locations, I’ll just put out some names:
1. Kamikaze Slushy 2. Baby Zombie 3. Indiana Sky 4. Shark Attack 5. Smashed Flowerpot 6. My Friend Heather 7. Piece of the World 8. Planet of the Grapes 9. Bloody Smurf 10. It’s all a Blur
The Halloween theme may have inspired the more macabre names. haha
Holy Cow. Yarns #1 through #10 (I was expecting something more cryptic, Tina!). On the above speculation that you need yarn types for each:
BFL Mixed Roving – 1,2,3,4,5,8,9
BFL Sport – 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
BFL Tussah Silk – 1,2,3,4,5,8,9
Bombyx Silk – 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9
Geisha – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Mawatas – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9
Merino/Bamboo – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Merino/Mulberry Silk – 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9
Merino/Yak – 1,2,4,5,8,9
Polworth – 1,2,4,5,8,9
Silk Bell Caps – 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9
STR Lightweight – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10
STR Mediumweight – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
STR Heavyweight – 1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10
STR Silkie – 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10
Twisted – 2,3,4,6,7,9,10
Silk Bell Caps
Since I am ending my vacation in Hawaii, there are a couple of names geared towards the islands…..Beautiful!
One
What to name them…
1—Purple People Eater
2—Sleepy Hollow
3—Ichabod Crane
4—Midnight Forest
5—Double, Double Toil and Trouble
6—Once Upon a Midnight Dreary
7—Monster Mash
8—Winter Moon
9—Like Oil and Water
10—Muddy Waters
STR light
One – Cleveland Sky in Winter
Two New Jersey Winter
Three—Edge of Autumn
Five – Tulgey Woods (Alice in Wonderland)
Six – Lost in the Woods
Seven Woods and Sky
Eight – Deep waters
Nine – Chocolate Blues
Ten- On the Mesa
STR medium
Four – Dublin Pub
1 – Don’t Be So Violent, Violet!
2 – Arctic Fog Over Arizona
3 – Funky Monkey Love
4 – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
5 – Pacific Forest Hike
6 – Cascade Heather Dream
7 – Alpine Meadow
8 – Princess Smarty Pants (inspired by someone I know)
9 – Blue Sky Chocolate Pie
10 – Heaven on Earth
They are all lovely but my faves are 2, 3 and 10.
Here are my names!
1. Makes Me Cry
2. Abandoned Factory
3. The Masters’ Palette
4. Haunted Forest
5. Through the Woods We Go
6. Subtlety
7. Polar Spring
8. Polynesian Purple Paradise
9. Ocean Pier
10. Cabin on the Lake
One Lightweight – Fade to Night
Two Lightweight – Twisted Metal
Nine Lightweight- Pilot’s Fall
1. Neptune
2. Cutthroat Trout
3. English Garden
4. Chinese Turquoise
5. Field of pansies
6. Purple Hellebore
7. Peacock Feathers
8. Lavender Ocean
9. Carmel Coast
10. Mojave Sunset
My idea for the names:
1 Dragonfly Mist
2 Wicked Wine and Tea
3 Dragonflys, Butterflys and Fireflys
4 Old Seaweed and Seaglass
5 Dead Sea Scrolls or Dead See Scrolls if you cant use the 1st name
6 Perfectly Ripe
7 Unicorns at Dusk
8 Unicorns at Sunset
9 Smoke on the Water
10 Dead Leaves on the Lake
Such (a) Tricky Race!
For some reason, 3 says “The Cluck Chimes at Midnight” to me.
1 – Grape Berries
2 – Grapes on my salad
3 – Smiley Monsters
4 – It matches my house
5 – Turtle Boys
6 – Turtle Girls
7 – Rocker Turtles
8 – Kerry Wins!
9 – Cowboy Curtains
Name for #9 – Make My Brown Eyes Blue
They’re hiding behind:
1. Christmas Balls
2. Gail
5 = My Little Brony
9 = Put an owl on it
10 = Jackal Antler (like Jack o’lantern…get it?)
They are hidden under 1 Christmas Balls
2 Gail
Here are a few names:
2. Desert Rose
3. Hen House
5. Cock ‘o the Walk
6. Holly Golightly
8. Sweet Sophistication
10. River Rock Canyon
What gorgeous colours and what a fun contest. Unimaginative as I am, here are my suggestions:
1. Lavender Blue Blue
Oops!, I hit the wrong key: to continue………
2, Stirred not Shaken
3. I tripped, I fell, Splash!
4. My Favourite Shirt
5. In the Jungle
6. Weeds in the Flowers
7. Sky over Fields
8. Turn Up the Hot Tub!
9. Blueberry Brownies, Yumm
10. Rodeo Rider
Seven – Gauguin
Two-Pissarro
Five – Cezanne
Four – Seurat
Eight – Van Gogh
Nine – Renoir
One – Monet
Three – Toulouse-Lautrec
Ten- Guillaumin
Six – Cassatt
Sorry these aren’t in numerical order but I was so struck by the feeling of Impressionist palette that I was looking at painting/painters which worked with those colors.
1. Mystic Moon
2. Mugwump
3. Colors of the Wind
4. Autumn Garden
5. Master Grief
6. Katniss Evergreen
7. Greedy Gutts
8. ‘Nawlins Blusey
9. Dum Diddy Bo
10. Clueless Browns
1. Andromeda
2. Squirrel
3. Technicolor dream skein
4. Sunken treasure
5. Glamping
6. Grandma
BFL Sport 8 – Hair 1914 (fad for dying one’s hair hues of blue and purple in 1914)
BFL Sport 5 – Black-Hooded Parakeet
BFL Sport 9 – Todd Miro’s Madness
BFL Sport 2 – Weathered Beach Chair
BFL sport #3 sits atop the throne -looking down below at the nameless skeins. It introduces itself to the yarn world.
“It is me they love ……..it is you, they have forgotten”
The 10 new colours are all fabulous, but two names jumped to me:
#8 – Isle of Capri
(Capri Island in Italy – you go by small boat to these caves off the water. the light reflection drives so many different shades of blue that it is nothing you could describe). You have captured those colours so perfectly that it brought back that memory of nearly 30 years ago.
#5 – Grouse Mountain
(for the mountain in Vancouver, BC – the colour eminated the spirit of this mountain for me)
Two = Danxia. Like these mountains: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanmelmel/8053290305/
They are hidden behind other colorways:
One – Christmas Balls
Two – Gail
Tina, your new colouways are fabulous. Here are a few name suggestions -
1. Purple Rain
2. Robot Chicken (this is my fave!)
3. Orcade
3. Beam me up Scotty
5. Jeremy Fisher
6. Glen Gordon
7. Westward Ho!
8. Sprite
9. Rusty Bike
10. Moose Smooches
I’ve been waiting for a naming contest because a name popped into my head months ago. It’s “Mad Dyentist” and I think it would fit Seven best – some scummy greens and a purple for the dyentist, and the shock of blue is the mad part.
Here are some name suggestions:
Two – Desert Sky
Three – Bohemian Rhapsody
Four – Gypsy Wanderings
That’s all I have for now. Maybe I’ll come up with some for the others later.
1 Peacock Strut
2 Powderfinger
3 Marvel
4 Cola Bottle Baby
5 Vitina Marcus
6 Nabooti Island
7 Blue Ivy
8 Like a Hurricane
9 Rust Never Sleeps
10 Harvest Moon
The closet looks like a “portable toilet” not sure what it means about the yarn cake..
Name submissions:
8) Dolphins’ Disco
1) Pacific Northwest
2) Snowmelt
4) Verdant Jubilee
5) Croakin’ Marsh Choir
6) Forest Slumber
10) Arizona’s Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty Mine in Globe is a turquoise mine)
9) Seagull Splashdown
I found all 10:
#1 Masquerade Ball Gowns
#2 Precious Metal Ores
#3 Blue skies over blooming meadows
#4 Emerald Isles
#5 The Tortoise and The Hare
#6 Reflected Fruit Vine
#7 A Banker’s Vault
#8 Grandma’s Iris bed
#9 Copper Mountain
#10 Surf N’ Turf
please excuse any spelling errors.
1. Amethyst sky
2. Freckle juice
3. Multivitamin my favorite of the new colors!
4. Crimson and clover
5. Hiking through the forrest
6. Muted pansies
7. Gadzooks
8. Mercury from the planet
9. Daddy’s beard my husband has red hair and blue eyes. Working from home the beard grows wild
10. Autumn sky
Happy Halloween. You guys rock!
Some more name possibilities …
1: Horizon
2: Driftwood. Or Coastal fog
3: Juno
4: Beachglass
5: Forest pond
6: Wood nymph. Or Dryad
7: Sea star
8: Somewhere, beyond the sea
9: Earth and sky
10: Muddy waters
My daughter Anna has worked five years on trail crew at Mt. Rainier National Park. Looking at these yarn colors brought to mind the amazing and unique colors of the wildflowers, the fungus, the forest floor, the meadows, the trails – all of the amazing and unique landscapes of Mt. Rainier. The colors you used in these bring to mind the deep indescribable blue of glaciers and the changing sky, the artful colorations of fungus and lichen on old growth, and the impossible colorations of Ohanapecosh. So that’s what I named them after. I reviewed pictures of hers and my own, plus cruised the internet for images, and based my names on seasonal representations at Mt. Rainier. Because two rangers died there this year in the line of duty I thought about naming a color for each of them but wasn’t sure if memorial yarn colors were appropriate. So anyway, here’s my suggestions, and I can back them up with links to photos when I’m not quite so sleepy….
1. Summerland.
2. Carbon River.
3. Moraine Trail.
4. Mazama Ridge.
5. Grove of the Patriarchs.
6. Ohanapecosh.
7. Crystal Lakes.
8. Paradise Meadows.
9. Spirit Lake.
10. Mowich.
1. Siren Song
2. Rusty Nail
3. Toil and Trouble
4. Eye of Newt
5. Loch Ness Monster
6. Mossy Headstone
7. Creepy Crawlies
8. Bubbling Cauldron
9.Autumn Twilight
10. Harvest Moon
Color names
1 lavender lullaby
2 brown eyes blue
3 pirates chest
4 fall- en for ye
5 Spicey Lass
6 a roaming in the heather
7 heavens jig
8 seas son
9 selky serenade
10 sky pumpkins
Happy October to you!
Two: Old Jeans
Six: Forest Flowers
Three: Dried Bouquet
Five: County Fair
Those are the only ones that come to me now, I wish I had seen this earlier. Happy Halloween!
1. Sherlocks bedroom – because it looked like the colors of Sherlock’s clothing, but perhaps rumpled and in a corner. MMmmmmmm
2. Seriously!? – yes. Just that word.
3. Finally fixed the hubble – reminded us of a Nebula
4. asbestos panties – When hot guys are around, this is what you need.
5. TINA SMASH! – Avengers prod
6. Knitting with Entrails – the colors are a bit ghoulish and reminded us of some innards
7. Hobbit Garden – yay!
8. Seashell size C – Colors reminded us of Ariel’s seashell bra
9. I Lost the game – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
10. A slice of crazy pie – a phrase we say at our knitting group a lot
This is all making me smile! I must admit I’m new to knitting, I have just been knitting a square blanket for one of my daughters. You would be proud!
I often visit Virginia Water in Surrey and the colours are superb. You’ve just inspired a lady who is [cough, cough].