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A collection and a obsession

See these?

 

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Aren’t they pretty?

I love them, every last one of them.  Which is a bit odd really, because red and I have a bit of a love hate thing going on that dates all the way back to my childhood and my mothers obsession with it. It’s taken me years to get over all of the red carpets, drapes, couches, cars, walls… that mom decorated hers and our lives with. I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of making friends with it considering the chroma-torture I put up with as a child.

One of the ways I have been able to do this is through the eyes of those I love, who also love red. Through my ~ dyeing/color creating ~ life, these friends have taken my hand and shown me the rosy light of day. Gail helped me tremendously and most of my early red colorways were with her in mind. Recently my friend Marisol has waltzed in with her joie de vivre, tilting and tinting my color sense with her passion for shoes, most especially Fluevogs. She asked me to create some colorways for the a gathering she is hosting at the San Francisco store.  I thought this sounded like all kinds of fun and off we went. I took my inspiration from the Fluevog Spring/Summer Collection.  Once we got started it was hard to stop.  We involved the Ravelry Vog knitters and made a naming game out of it all. Great fun!!

So I started with the red and kind of got lost. It’s a warm ripe tomato red that makes my heart sing. I want to put it with everything but most especially blues, dark blues, green blues, tints and shades. Red and blue is a pretty traditional approach for me. So when I needed my tomato friend a little cooler for the Blue Box Fever colorway the Rav group wanted I might have been a little pissy over the lack of challenge. Just a little!!  I  blued her up a bit and put her with a very turquoise blue and BAM! I love it. All of these colorways just make me happy.  I hope they make you all happy to. Marisol thank you for asking me to do this with you, for sharing your passion, taking me to the Fluevog store when Sophie and I were visiting and just being you!

Oh and mom, I might just get it a little more now. After all I do have a pond scum bathroom!!

There are bunch of new colors up besides the ones inspired by Marisol and her Vogs.

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blog3Here’s a list so you can find them.

multicolor wave
Afternoon Delight
Black to the Fuschia
Death by Puree
Flying Monkeys Revenge
Gnome on the Range
Juice Me!
Marisol’s Flue
A room without a Roof
Sail Away !
SassMaster Skein
Skyrocketing Puddle Jumper

shaded solid
Aquarius
Crabby Apple Green
TIT for TAT
Vine Ripened Red
Violet’s Blues
Walkin’ the Dog

FleuVog Inspired Collection

It’s a collection, not an obsession                                                                                                           FlueMarket*Find                                                                                                                                                                        Blue Box Fever
Marisol’s Flue
Afternoon Delight                                                                                                                                                Vine Ripened Red                                                                                                                                        SassMaster Skein                                                                                                                                   Skyrocketing Puddle Jumper!

Check it out!! Guess who’s selling our yarn in their online store now too!!   Twisted PDX 

We are thrilled!!!

Have a bright and happy weekend!!

 

 

2 Comments
  1. neuroknitter #

    Breathtaking! Especially the reds!

    April 26, 2014
  2. Marisol #

    Tina all of these summer colors are Divine! I Love each and everyone of them! Thank you ever so much for agreeing to this little whim of mine. I LOVE your yarn and my Vogs… My two guilty pleasures… Well maybe not.. There is no guilt. I regret Nothing!!! I am so looking forward to the upcoming Socks That Rock Knitters Shindig on May 24th. I will display all of these beautiful Skeins amongst the gorgeous Spring/Summer 2014 Fluevog collection. It will be grand. We shall, eat, drink, and be Merry. How can we not, when surrounded by such beautiful yarn and shoes! Pictures will be forthcoming.

    XOXO,

    Marisol aka Purlsjustwannahavefun!

    April 26, 2014

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