Dye-O-Rama Yarn

Well, it's my yarn right now. Robin did receive her swap pal's Dye-O-Rama yarn, and I will try to remember to take a picture of it this week when we go down to sign our house lease. My Dye pal was Amanda who has a blog entitled "My Only Sunshine". Go check her blog out. She has been doing some fun things.

She based her dye colorway on a painting by Monet, entitled "Monet's Sunset". She talks about the yarn here, along with her Dye-O-Rama sock yarn and some goodies she received in the mail. I know, you want pictures, right? Well, here's my Dye-O-Rama yarn, front and back.

I love the colors in this yarn. If I weren't working on some socks for my mom, this yarn may already be on the needles working up into some beautiful socks. Now, the question is, what pattern to use to highlight the lovely colors in the yarn? A slip stitch pattern may work nice in this yarn, or maybe just plain stockinette. I'll have to play when I get done with my Mom's socks.

Amanda also included a really cute and cheerful sock yarn holder, that slips around the wrist to hold your yarn as you knit. Cool, huh? She has more pictures on her blog here. I include an image here to show you how lovely this little handmade item is. I never even thought to make one of these, but I bet they would be relatively easy to make. What a wonderful and thoughtful bonus to my sock yarn!


I have some other news too. We're moving. Yes, I know we are physically moving down to SC, but we are also virtually moving the blog to a different website. My husband and I purchased a domain for a number of reasons. The blog will be moving at the end of the month to the following site: http://www.clickingneedles.anndan.net/. Right now there is just a place holder at the site, my test trial page.

The move will occur probably at the end of June, with this website hosting a link connecting you to the new page for only about a month as Earthlink is not supported where we are going. The contents will be the same, but hopefully we'll have better graphics, and I can finally get Robin to post. She keeps telling me she'll try, but it doesn't happen. She's taking courses this summer and is on her second summer term. This one is supposed to be a difficult course, so I don't think we'll hear from her for a bit. But, maybe when I am down closer to her again, I'll take photos and blog about some of her projects.

Oooh, on that note. Robin was up here for a bit this Sunday with a friend, Sue. Sue and her son were bunny shopping -- angora bunny shopping. They stopped at Avillion Farm, a rabbitry that belongs to a friend of ours. In the past, Robin has purchased her angora bunnies from this farm and has lovely bunnies that produce wonderful fiber. Well, I decided to head on over to meet up with them and drop off my old serger sewing machine for Robin. My mom purchased a new one, and asked if I wanted her old one. I said yes and shipped it out here, so I have a new one to play with, and now Robin has a new toy too. But that's off topic.

Now, If you'll recall, Robin lost one of her bunnies due to a freak accident, leaving her with two rabbits. Robin's goal this weekend was to NOT come home with a third bunny rabbit, but to help her friend find two rabbits, possibly a breeding pair. Cough, grin, well, as luck would have it, Pearl, a beautiful blue doe decided Robin was her owner. Pearl let Robin hold her and pet her and do almost anything to her without a fuss.

Um, how did Pearl end up in Robin's arms? It wasn't my fault, honest! I turned around and Robin was pulling a young bunny out of a cage and checking the sex of the bunny. Really, honest! I may be an enabler, but I didn't do anything to help her along on this one . . . well, other than pet the bunny and get to hold her myself. And um, yeah, I may have mentioned this one looks like it wants to go home with Robin. Sigh, yes, I guess I did help. But, really, how was I to know she would take one out of the cage. Oh, yeah, well, I guess I knew that would happen too. Hmm, sigh, but then I'm pretty sure Robin and her hubby P knew this was going to happen too. So, see, I'm not an enabler on this one.

So, the end result, Robin has a lovely little dark grey (blue) bunny rabbit as a new fiber producer. I'll try to remember to take photos of the bunnies when we are down there.

Alright, really, that's it for me. Mouthy today, wasn't I? Happy fibering all!