I <3 my UPS guy

I ordered my base yarn for the laceweight yesterday. 3 day UPS shipping.

It showed up *this afternoon*.

Awesomeness.

Now I have almost 30 skeins of laceweight to play with, and 2 new colors of dye. I already have yarn soaking, and Justin claimed defeat and said he would stay out of the kitchen and dining room this evening. (Both rooms are incredibly small, and it's hard for 2 people to be in them at once.. sad, eh?) He can't stand the smell of wet wool, so the fan is in the window and the pots are on the stove.

Ladies and Gents, it is time to dye.

Etsy Buy Handmade ColorfulSheep

I updated the Etsy shop - be sure to check it out!

Shop update, scarf done

I was able to get some more colors up in the shop webpage today. Tomorrow I will be getting the printer cartridges refilled, so I will be designing actual yarn labels - so we will be taking a step from price tags to yarn labels, yay!

And I made the Harry Potter scarf move from a WIP to a FO, but the recipient was so happy with it she took it and ran off with it before I was able to snap a picture of it. Hopefully soon I can snap a picture of her wearing the scarf. I also started working on some thread crochet - I'll try to get some pictures of that up soon!

Busy Busy Busy

It's been quite busy the past few days. I made the crocheted Swiffer pattern, but then it was brought to my attention from more than a few knitters that they *might* appreciate a simple knitted Swiffer cover, too. Well, that night I sat down and went ahead and drafted out a simple knitted Swiffer cover pattern that is like the crocheted pattern. It is easy to churn out a couple in a night, you can easily use up SnC scraps, and you don't feel bad throwing it away when it's past it's prime.

And then this morning I decided to stop putting off the inevitable. When I first made the webpage, I had started a simple layout. I didn't think I would be putting up so much information, patterns, etc. I new the webpage needed an overhaul, but alot of times that takes alot of work, time, and hairpulling. And after getting up this morning, I decided to stop procrastinating and went ahead and did it. So make sure to stop by and take a look, because the new layout is roomier, easier to navigate, and alot easier on the eyes. In the upper right hand corner, in the banner, I plan to get a collage or such of yarns that I have dyed. That's about the only thing that's lacking so far. It took most of the day, but I'm happy it's pretty much done!

Just to make it easy, the webpage is over here.

New Yarns Posted!

So yesterday I spent most of the day skeining yarn and updating the dishcloth portions of the webpage.





There's a little peek at a new color I dyed.. it was tough not to keep it for myself!

New Dishcloth Pattern Up, and new Solids Line

I just wanted to let everyone know, we have a new dishcloth pattern up on the webpage!

It's the Harvest Braids Dishcloth. We also have a new line of solid color Dishcloth Cottons!

Dyeing Frenzy

So I have been knitting off and on, but my poor little crock pots have been working over time. I have alot of people asking for solid color dishcloth cottons, and so thats what their gonna get :-) I hooked up both crock pots, and we all know I have plenty of cotton to dye, so Ive been dyeing tons. When its all dry, its gonna get reskeined and put up on the webpage. Woo hoo!

Sock yarn!

I just updated the webpage, and I added a sock yarn category. I don't have many yarns up there yet, but I feel confident in my dyeing that I am ready to put the category up. I went through a number of skeins just playing around, but now I am having some really gorgeous colors show up on the wool.

I also posted a few new cotton yarns, in reds and pinks. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow I'll get some more cotton dyed.

I'm still plodding away at the Forest Canopy Shawl (which is knitting up beautifully), but I also started a dishcloth out of one of my hand dyes, using the Strawberry Smoothie pattern from Harvest Moon Designs.

FO Post!

I finally got the Danica Scarf done!

Heres a pic of it unblocked:



And here it is, done:



And thanks to the great Cincinnati weather, its 32F right now, and Ive been able to wear it the past couple of days.

And now, Im working on a Forest Canopy Shawl out of a handpainted fingering weight I dyed:



This pattern is *awesome*! Lace and I have not had a good history, so I was kinda scared to start this. But the pattern is well written, and it's a great pattern.

And for the business, I got the cutest price tags ever:



They really arn't price tags, they're die cuts, but they are alot cuter than the plain white tags than I have been using.

I also went to Hobby Lobby, where I found they carried the new Sugar n Cream Twist, so I picked up one in each color.



The twists are really pretty, so I'm looking forward to casting on a couple of dishcloths with these.