So, I had some wine with dinner last night, after a VERY long and hard day of dyeing. The wine was delicious, Trish. It got me feeling very little pain and so I took the colorway that had been circling my brain for two days out through my fingertips. I was going for Africa and so I present Mombassa. To me it is like a dark maned lion or simply the colors of the bush. The muted version is Merino Sport and the sharp one is sock.
I just love it when this comes out the way I envisioned it in my head. I am truly in love with this colorway...it is of the earth.
I WANT, I WANT.....DAMN IT!! You just keep doing it to me Lisa!! tee hee! So that's what's been whirling around. I love them! TRUELY! You magical woman you.
Didn't someone tell you new colorways were coming???
Who...prehaps Debbie Reynolds?
Posted by: Sheila E | June 09, 2006 at 09:08 PM
You took the words right out of my mouth, Sheila. Every time I think there's nothing more here that I can want, she does it again. ::sigh:: Beautiful, beautiful...
Posted by: Sam | June 10, 2006 at 01:12 AM
Wow.....I like both of them. Those colors would look awesome in garments. Hmmm...maybe you are doing those colors in some sport weight yarns???*GRIN*
Posted by: Helle from Denmark | June 10, 2006 at 04:59 AM
How do you do that? How is it that you can make me, who LOATHES brown with a passion, keep wanting your brown colorways? First Petryglyph, and now this! It's absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: hollyo | June 10, 2006 at 01:21 PM
I'll be your best friend in the whole world forever if you do those colorways in cashmere or angora.
drool...
Posted by: Tom C | June 10, 2006 at 09:39 PM
Tom....does that mean, that your "desire" is,, that i should send white angora to Lisa, to dye??*GRIN*
Posted by: Helle from Denmark | June 11, 2006 at 03:39 AM
Oh Tommmmmmmm...be quiet and go to Italy. :o}
Posted by: Lisa S | June 11, 2006 at 07:05 AM
I'd like to see them in her silk and Merino blend...yum!
Posted by: Holly the webmaster | June 11, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Or maybe the Wensleydale.....who takes dye so well!*GRIN*
Posted by: Helle from Denmark | June 11, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Yes yes! WENSLEYDALE.
Posted by: Jan Clark | June 11, 2006 at 07:44 PM
I only have two eyes - one of them sees cashmere and the other sees angora. It's a kind of fiber-blindness. It's rare but I have it.
Anyway, I know you've already thought about it. You were thinking about it when you first started dying the sock yarn. Uh huh, you were going: "Oh my gawd, I'll bet this'd look cool in handspun cashmere or angora."
And then right after that you thought: "If I show this colorway in sock yarn, dude from down south is going to start hounding me for it in cashmere."
Let's just say that neither one of us is ever going to be free of the other. Something in the Scorpio ethers...
Yes Helle - send lots and lots of white angora.
Posted by: Tom C | June 11, 2006 at 11:50 PM
Well, I am constitutionally immune to brown, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it when someone does it well.... It's very nice and yay for inspiration. I like the one on the left best.
Posted by: CarolineF | June 12, 2006 at 05:46 AM
Oh that sock yarn is just stunning - I love those colors! Hmmm...I just finished a pair last night and my needles are now empty...
Posted by: Deb | June 12, 2006 at 11:20 AM
I wish I could see it in person! Even though it isn't blue, I LIKE it!! Good job. I have the same issues as Hollyo, I was taken for a ride by petroglyph and loved it.
Posted by: Lisak | June 12, 2006 at 01:41 PM