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Time for a change!

It is color rotation time.
There are some colorways that need just a wee bit of a rest.
Also, there are holiday and fall ones wreaking havoc in the barn trying to get attention.  Oh, and new ones. Let’s not forget the new colorways, covering every single available surface in my home. I kid you not.
In order to maintain some sense of decorum and keep my color children from fighting amongst themselves, on August 18th, we will be moving the color wheel towards Autumn and the coming holiday knitting season. I know, hard to believe isn’t it?
At this time, we will also be raising prices a bit. We have not done this in three years, so it is definitely past due. Our costs have gone up both in yarn, dye, and well, just about everything. I will do my best to make it as painless as possible.

Here is a list of the colorways that are getting a short vacation.

Hard Rock
Hot Flash
Amber
Backstabber
Dixie Chick
Crazy Lace Agate
Little Bunny FooFoo
Lover’s Leap
Lemongrass
Ms. La Rock
Mr. Green Jeans
Mudslide
Peaseblossom
Titania
Pebble beach
Pixie Park
Rain Forest Jasper
Rhodonite
Seastone
Thistle
Sherbet
Highway 30
Lucy
Love in Idleness
Cockamamie

If you have colorway requests, you can put them here in the comments, and I will take them into consideration.
I promise you will be happy with the new colors! Cross my heart and hope to dye.




posted by tina

July 26, 2008

Contests

Color Contest Winners

Here is the list of colorways that I see in that oceany header photo:  Carbon, Pond Scum, Olivenite, Jade, Mossay, Kaw Kaw, Rose Quartz, Jasper, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Rauen, Obsidian, Socktopus, Downpour, Monsoon, Gypsum, Smoky Blue, Harlotty, Covelite, Petrified Wood, Quilla, Rooky, Typhoon me, Algae, Mochaberry, Mudslide, Pink Granite, Lunasea and actually all the Ravens are somewhere in there.

It was really cool to see what everyone else saw in this photo.

I am sure that there are quite a few I missed or that are kind of/sort of there.  Out of the 300 entires here are the 10 winners. I could not stick to just five winners.

Angela Saccenti
Debs Feldmann
Jennifer Davis
Joy Roelfs
Leslie Wong
MIchele Corbiel
Julie Bernhardt
Kristin May
Marie (red)
Kristin Perry

Congrats and please email your shipping info to and title it “Winner”. We will then ship you out your Rare Gem.

thanks for playing!! 

posted by tina

July 25, 2008

depraved dyer

What if hummingbirds could knit?

Wouldn’t that be the strangest sight. I am sitting here on the back deck where we have quite a few bird feeders. I am answering emails and working on a new design. I am also being bombarded by hummingbirds.
There are about ten of them and they chase each other through the wood slats and around my head and one was just hovering by my ear. All just a bit disconcerting even for me,lover of all things feathered.

As I watch them it occurs to me that if they worked together with those long beaks and their zippy ways, they could knit like the wind. Teeny tiny little things like skull caps for the flight south. Ohh, and nest liners. Knitting hummingbirds, hmmmm.  Maybe they already do knit a bit. I bet they do something similar in their nest building.  After all there are those cool weaver birds.

It has been a wildlife filled weekend here. We have twin deer babies and one of them sniffed my hand. He also gave me quite a look of disdain afterwards, nonetheless pretty cool. He probably did not like the vinegar smell I seem to carry with me.
Then while weeding in the garden I felt something by my foot .I was so sure that I was going to be freaked by a snake and it turned out to be a baby bunny sniffing my toes. Awww ... so cute.

Lots of babies here, even some of these dive bombing hummingbirds are babies.  A good season for babies.

posted by tina

July 21, 2008