My yarn arrived today - all 72# of it - gulp! I got a new fiber to play with - a 50/50 silk superwash merino blend. It looks lovely just as a natural yarn - I can't wait to see how it dyes up!

In other news I signed up to be a vendor at the Michigan Fiber Fiesta . It's a new one day event in Greenville MI. I haven't done a festival in a couple of years now and am looking forward to this one!

More yarn is on it's way

I got an email today from my supplier. I've got roughly 70# of ready to dye yarn that should arrive here on Thursday. That will keep me busy for a while!!

Here are the 3 colors I did the day I dyed the Cherry Blossom yarn - they're for sale in my Etsy shop. Only the purple turned out like I envisioned it what I started. With the green I was aiming for light spring grassy and leaf greens. When the initial color turned out darker than I wanted I went ahead and overdyed it all with blue and got beautiful deep, dark forest colors. That's the beauty of dyeing yarns - even something completely different is beautiful!

Not quite cherry blossoms

The trees are starting to blossom here and they're gorgeous! I decided to try a cherry blossom color - white, light pink and a touch of deep pink. But I added to much pink.... The beauty of dyeing is that you can take one color and turn it into something else if you wish. So, with the addition of a bit more pink my cherry blossom yarn became crab apple blossom instead!

It has been an incredibly beautiful week! We had 4 days in a row where the temperature was 70 or above. Incredible for the end of March/beginning of April.

The weather was perfect for drying yarn out on the line! I love seeing the colorful skeins hanging there, feeling the yarn as it is soft and lofty from the breeze and smelling the line dried yarn as I re-skein it.

This week I played around with Blues. I was working on getting a good lakeshore color with the teals/aqua/blues of the lake with a touch of sandy brown. I was pretty pleased with the final result. I also worked to recreate a color a blue/periwinkle/lavender I had done over the winter. It came out really nice, but photographing it to really show the colors is proving a bit more challenging.

So here is a picture of the lakeshore yarn (which is available in my Etsy shop )and I'll post the other when I get the picture that really shows the colors. The first photo is Simply Sock and the second is Classy Sock