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Jul 29

New Colorways are LIVE!!!

Our new colorways are all up on the website as I type this. There are 15 of them total. Some of them are BeSpeckled and some are Multicolors. I am feeling really inspired right now so I have quite a few more coming but my lovely  production dyer team request that they do not have to learn 20 new recipes all at once so… . It is a lot!

I have to say I am experiencing a fair amount of love for some of these.I am so tickled with Heckley Speckley that I can barely contain myself. It’s a little Antiquated System meets Sea Scum Run for a brew with a splash of Spicy Plum. I knew as soon as I sprinkled the dye powder on it that It was going to be one of my top 10 color loves. I will need you to keep this a secret between you and me so the other colorways don’t get jealous. The last thing I need is a hues hurt feelings causing tension in the barn.

One of the other new colorways I made this past weekend in Blue Moon’s very first Dye Camp Session. We made great colors together and had all kinds of fun. I was a little nervous since it has been awhile so was happy that the class was just the perfect size and group for getting my hands back in to the teaching  dye cauldron. Intro-Speck (Thank you Linda for the great name!)  I made by showing layering color and saturation techniques. I knew as soon as I was done that this had to be a colorway, they all agreed! So here they are.

Not too shabby eh? Do you see the Flamingo Feet there?? I found this picture of Flamingo feet (and legs too) and was smitten so of course it had to be a colorway. Check out my instagram feed to see them together. I even put little black dots for their black toenails. Some days my job is just way too much fun.

Oh…I almost forgot then there is Tourmaline SunAngel that is all kinds of wonderful but most especially so on Single Silk Targhee and Featherlight and Sparkle. Oh my on Sparkle it’s to dye for!

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Okay…I’ll stop. I need to get this up so I can get out to the barn to help dye now that the sock yarn is showing up.

Orders Update: yeah so one of our shipments of lightweight that we were expecting to fill orders and dye for sock club did not show up. Yeah the mill lost the order or something they can’t really explain. Yeah slightly stressful. Anyway it is showing up now and we are dyeing out little hearts out!! We are sorry for the delay! I am planning on working all weekend to play catch up. We  appreciate your patience and understanding. Also why does this kind of thing always happen in the middle of a sale??

A little secret….because it has been crazy busy with this mill thing. I have not had a chance to change our yarn and roving specials. So they are still on special and will be at least for this weekend. Enjoy!

Shhh…. don’t tell the boss.

Okay off to dye massive amounts of sock yarn!!!

Stay cool!!

Have a fabulous weekend.

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Jul 22

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a whole lot of somethings

New color!!!!

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I am making all kinds of new colorways. Seriously inspired by the world around me and feeling the need to translate that into color on yarn.

See the name on the yarn tags?? ~ Tourmaline SunAngel ~  I think this might just be the best colorway name I ever heard! It’s a hummingbird name. Our Kalia found it. I am heavy in love with this colorway!

It’s been a bit of a week which makes it hard to carve out creative time. When one is stressed and problem solving it is hard to make the space you need to feel inspired and to listen to your creative voice. Lucky for me that I am an early bird and we all know what the early bird gets. Yup a big fat juicy worm of creativity. Okay that’s kind of gross but you know what I mean.

Let’s move  away from worms and back to color We are going to be adding new colorways next week. So that means some colorways that have been offered for awhile need to go to the spa for a rest. No worries they do not go away forever just for a little bit.

Below is a lost of the ones that will be coming down next week.

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We have a few Pokeman peeps among team Blue Moon so we are going to have a few Poke hues! Here is our first one.

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PokExplosion!!  Sarah ( our in house expert) insisted we needed a red, black and white so I added a little bit of a pikachu sprinkle on the white part.

I love it! Sarah says to please do as she asked and make the red, black and white one.

So my knitterly friends if you are poke obsessed and have any suggestions let me know! You can use the comments section of this post.

The new Star Trek movie is out so I am working on some trekkie hues.

I am teaching our first camp session tomorrow and am pretty excited!! There is still room if you want to join us. The other camp sessions are full and or filling fast. I might ad a few in October if you have something you’d like to see me offer let me know.

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Our roving sale is still going on! The Merino/Yak is correctly priced now!!

Fruity Loopies on roving is all kinds of fun!

And… the Speckles….so cool!

 

Here are the roving specials with a bit of a twist for this weekend only. If you order this weekend we will add to your order a 15 gram bundle of silk hankies dyed per your request. Just tell us the colorway you want in the notes section of your order and we will dye you a bundle and ship it with your roving!IMG_4974

100% Targhee

Super Foot

Panda.

Polwarth

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Also Special this weekend is our super duper luxurious Worthy Sport. I know!! Now we really do not have a lot of this so if you want it jump! Usually it is 64.00 a skein. We have done a switch on the numbers and made it 46.00. I wore a cowl out of our Worthy all during chemo and it was the softest most comforting thing!

Our Single Silk Targhee also on special for one more week!  I know I said one week but it just looks so pretty hanging from the rafters and you are all picking such pretty colors. This will be our last special pricing on this yarn since it is going into our LYS offerings.

Evidently having the barn sale and such in June threw some of you off. We do usually have it is August . It just worked better in June this year. Since some of you missed the sale I scrounged up a few more Mystery Mill End bags and they are up on the site this weekend also. I even marked them down a little more. We are trying to get the barn clean and organized for the upcoming season and for classes!

How are you doing on your knit-a-longs. I’ve seen some really pretty combo’s on the Farmer’s Market Shawl.

Cast on for Karen’s Letting the Light In!! started this week!!! Yay

Have a lovely weekend!

It’s cool and wet here but I think that is suppose to change.

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Jul 8

Summer Dye Camp!!!!!!!!!

Yes! Summer Dye Camp. I am pretty excited about this and will tell you all about it and Shannon’s new Busy Bees pattern and the roving special we are running.

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Every year we have our annual barn sale which a few years ago we added a dye play day component to.

It’s great fun!

However, it is not a class but more of dip your toes into the very edge of the dyeing experience. Each year I promise I will do more dye events and hold classes and well life has kind of gotten in the way of that happening. I have decided this is my summer to jump right into the dye vat and get this color party started!

Since it is summer and I do love camps and anything campy we are going to start a Blue Moon Dye Camp!!! Yay!!!

I love dyeing and color and fiber.

A part of that passion for me is the sharing of it (along with my knowledge and years of experience of all that is fiber and color) with other like-minded, possessed souls. I have really missed teaching quite a bit so I might be just a little excited!!!

As I was planning all of this and thinking of what I wanted to start with and how to make it all happen I decided to rustle up my trusty class/teaching notebook. In doing so, I realized  just how long I have been doing all of this. I had not really thought of it in awhile, but it has easily been 17 years and probably closer to 20, since I started this little color/fiber journey. It was a staggering realization.

So far I have 5 sessions with varying themes from dye basic and technique to gradients and shibori. You can read all about each of them in the dye descriptions on the camp page.

I did my level best to keep the cost as affordable possible, while also making sure I got paid. It turns out this a bit hard for me. Never in a million years would I have thought I undervalued myself, like never, ever. But… after everyone I ran all of this by kept coming back with the same feedback that ~ hey Tina, this is not enough~ and I kept getting all squirrelly, if finally hit me. At 59 it sure does looks like I might still have some self esteem issues to work through.  I know…go figure. I am sure a little color therapy will help!

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Waiting for a little color inspiration or divine intervention.

Waiting for a little color inspiration or divine intervention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you will join me on this new color adventure of ours!

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Shannon sent out the 1st hint on the Farmer’s Market MKAL this week and I see that a fair amount of you are casting on. I can’t wait to see all of the combo’s all knit up.

If you are a little late to the MKAL party we are doing our best to get you your yarns asap!! The coupon code for that is good until July 15th.

Shannon is up to a whole lot of knit goodness this summer. Have you seen her League of Busy Bees. If not you should totally check it out. It’s pretty wonderful and quite the deal. She just released another pattern for her Busy Bees in one of my favorites of our yarns  Yaksi Fingering. She also knit the sample in a color that she and I both have big love for Fruity Loopies.  I think Fruitly Loopies looks extra wonderful on our Yaksi Fingering. Since Yaksi starts out a little grey it deepens the effect of all of those super bright hues.

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The Wonder Shawl!

I do love a shawl that so beautifully shows off a colorway distinctly different stitch patterns. Thank you Shannon for another wonderful (hehe, pun intended) design!

Oh… almost forgot there is a discount code that Shannon gives you for our Yaksi when you purchase.

What colorway in Yaksi would you use?

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Remember that on July 15th the Rockin’ Sock Club coupon code changes from a 20 % discount to a 15% percent discount. You will find the code in the January dyer’s notes at the end.

We have a few prize winners from our last contest we have not heard from. If you could please email paula@bluemoonfiberarts.com

#1 Prize: Coloring Book
Winner hipknitta
#6 Prize: 1 skein of STRL Wonderful goodness
Winner: Joviv101
#8 Prize: Silk / Wool Scarf painted
name Annarch

Last but most certainly not least, in honor of Tour de Fleece, we have s free roving specials. We have also added a few new rovings to the line-up for awhile.

Here are the new ones:

100% Targhee, Super Foot and Panda. Super Foot and Panda are temporary visitors. Targhee is a permanent addition to our spinning offerings.  All of these are 27.00 for a 8 ounce hank!

We have also marked down our beloved Polwarth and  Merino/Yak to 27.oo for a few weeks.

Okay  I have to now go wrangle with Sears about a washer they sold me that does not work which means we have to use the one in the house to spin out all of the yarn. Yeah!!! I have spent a good part of the week dealing with this which is a little sad cause I was going to make new colorways. I have a Hamilton series brewing in my head and I need to get it onto yarn. Are you possessed by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton? I totally am.  Our whole family is actually and we are car singers so… . If you are one of the Hamilton possessed and you want to weigh in a colorway names and hues do let me know in the comments.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Jul 1

A bit of this and a bit of that…

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It is yet another stunningly beautiful day here in the Pacific Northwest! Just the right amount of sunshine, with a bit of a breeze. The kind of sunny days that you want to be walking in the park or hiking on the mountain or kayaking in the river or beach-combing or sitting on your back deck with a cup as the hummingbirds zoom by my head and the chickens serenade, writing a blog post!

As much as I love you guys, I do wish I was beach combing right now.

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Next week starts the first clue of Shannon’s farmer’s market MKAL.  Are we excited? I know I am!

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Two of my fav’s:

Top: Apron Strings, Whirly Whirleroo and Spawn of Scum

Side: Wonderful Goodness, Muddy Autumn Rainbow and Motley Hue

As of today we have shipped almost all the MKAL orders. Ones that have come in the last few days will do our very best to ship out on Tuesday.

The coupon code is good up until the 15th of July!

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Speaking of coupon codes…if you are one of our notorious sock knitting Rockin’ Sock Club members we sent out an email to everyone regarding the 20% deadline on your discount code on July 15th.  The code and info are in the January dyer’s notes! I’ll also post on the sock club blog today for everyone!

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As promised the Color Story and the Gradients are now offered in our Featherlight single fingering-weight goodness!! I will be adding all kinds of gradient choices here. I feel like this is a really good start! I will tell you gradients are quite the time consuming process. Luckily they are also fun!

Okay well I was going to talk a little bit about the dye classes I planning for this summer but I am running out of time. I will be putting up a schedule and more info next week on what I have been thinking of as Summer Color Camp or Come Dye with Me!!! If there is something you would like to play at with dye and color let me know in the comments section here.

Have a great weekend!

I will leave you with a cool shot of dye specks!

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