I love my job.

This evening's kettle-dyed yarns, drying. I will never get tired of doing this.

Clouds outside, clouds inside.

Rain clouds outside, soft wooly clouds inside.

Merino top that I dyed up yesterday.  The loft in this fiber is incredible.  It's so soft.  Kitten soft. Baby soft.  Cloud soft.  Absolutely delicious.  I really don't know how I'm going to be able to sell it. It's like I'm selling bundles of guaranteed happy thoughts.

Spinning this top will be just like spinning a cloud.  Or a kitten.  Minus all the scratching and biting.

Color Fest's My Name, Color Is My Game.

(ALL PHOTOS TAKEN THIS EVENING.  STUPID CAMERA!)

Finished kettle-dyed lace weight.  I am really pleased with how these skeins turned out.  The gradations in color are fabulous.

Cooling kettle-dyed yarn.  I have used every single piece of vintage enamelware that I own in this little venture of mine.

My indoor clothesline.  It's too cold to hang stuff outside overnight.  It would freeze, and it's not worth the worry.  The house smells like wet wool a lot, so we burn incense like a pack of potheads.  

The dye corner.  The stains on the counter are in improvement, trust me.  My blog is aptly named.

This is how I'm keeping track of colorways.  A quick photo documents the colors I've used.  Easy peasy.

Mission Accomplished!

I know it doesn't look like much, but this folding table effectively tripled my workspace.  All that cleaning/re-organizing yesterday really paid off.  Another thing that pays off is having a handy husband.  Dude just saved me $75 by building me a yarn skeiner.  ( I re-skein everything I dye.)

I have plans for dyeing self-striping sock yarns this fall when I move back home.  This is going to reqire a huge skeiner (and the space for it, hence the wait until fall/moving) to make skeins that are long enough for the lengthy color repeats needed to form stripes.  I'm pretty excited about the prospect, and even more excited about moving.  A double whammy of goodness!

Holla Atcha Mamma!

So sorry about the bloggity absence lately.  I suuuuuuuuck at having too many irons in the fire, especially after having very few irons in the fire for so long.  I think I'm finding my feet, though, so yay for that.

I must note that I'm having a positively lovely time when I'm not totally freaking out about stupid self-imposed perfectionist issues.  I adore what I'm doing, and if I could skip all the phone calls, emails, faxes and assorted paperwork, I'd be tickled pink. And orange, with a smidge of violet and a dash of vermillion and a touch of chartreuse.

Today, we are re-vamping our tiny living space (700 sq. ft.) to make it more work friendly for yours truly, and I'm taking time out from cleaning/organizing/moving stuff to write this and scarf an egg salad sandwich.  (I love egg salad. So simple, so yum.)  My goal is to get all this boring crap done by tonight, and have my setup all streamlined so I can finish what I need to to start my Etsy shop and prepare for my first fiber festival. 

Quick -N- Dirty Post

This is what I've been up to:

This is the roving that I've been dyeing.  The temptation to sit and spin this up has been tremendous!  

Here's some of the yarn, all fingering weight.  There's 100% merino, merino/silk blend, and superwash/nylon blend.  Each yarn takes the dye differently, so there has totally been a learning curve involved.

I took these photos this evening, whilst fending off five cats.  That was a trick, let me tell you. Here's Jack trying to weasel his way onto all that lovely wool. 

I can't allow kitty contamination, so I quickly bagged it all up again.  Not such great photos, but you get the general idea.

Congratulate me!

I'm a small business owner.  

My days are filled with color.  Lots and lots of color.