As Schnickle says...Howdy FOLKS! (He heard this at the Wagon Train day and has found that it makes us laugh and so it is our special greeting...Howdy, Grampy Folks, etc.)
I thank the Muse for coming to me when I need her. When you are the primary in a business such as this, the Chief Cook & Bottle Washer, sometimes the keeping up with orders takes over and the Muse is picking her fingernails over in the corner on that big pile of fluffy fiber. I hooked her by the harp and asked her to follow me over to the dye table so that I could channel the colors that I was seeing. She took the tape off of her adorable little lips and whispered, just so...
I have some wonderful new colors and if you are not on the mailing list, this is a chance for you to see them here. I was inspired by a photo that I acquired recently and came up with The Shore, seen here in Sock! Merino. I ADORE this moody colorway, which reminds me of vintage funnies.
The Shore led to Atlantic, this time in Sock!.
Then I took it one step simpler and extracted "just that blue" for Ice Ice Baby, shimmery in Lace.
Now, on the other hand, there is a color that has been part of some of my FAVORITE colorways like Aww-tum and now The Shore. I call it Tah-mayta!, as in that is one hot tomato. It will brighten up your day, fo-sho. Shown here in Baby Alpaca Lace.
My latest colorway had to bubble around in my brain a little because I certainly pulled this one from the ether and the Thousand Yard Stare (the good kind). I call it Bijou because that is what came into my ear, from You Know Who...the Good Fairy. Hardtwist Petite, this time.
Rod is packing his bags for his journey to the Pacific Northwest, for a week and a half of trains, trains, trains. If you see him wandering around Portland next week, you don't have to do a double take...knitters at TKGA and Train Geeks at their convention will be milling about together in the streets of that fair city. He comes home and before you know it, we will pack up the Big Ass Van and motor on up to Canby, Oregon for the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival. I'll just take this quiet time when Schnickle and his mama are gone and work, work, work but I will also plant a jillion daffodil bulbs.
Daffodils/Jonquils are my tangible hope for the future. You plug them into holes in the ground and wait for them to come up and thrill you with color after a long cold winter. I am planting other seeds for Hope now, too. My hope is for the time when we can come together and bring our country back from the brink of Fill In The Blank.
Mom is a wee bit weaker each time that I see her. She still knows us but the mechanism for coping with her predicament takes her away from time to time. The tulips...I planted them for her. I thank her every day for allowing us to come here because knowing myself back then, I would not have left her behind and would have sacrificed myself. She helped us by allowing us to go through the elimination of her things and house BEFORE she Graduates, giving us the gift of knowing that we can be happy and she can be cared for properly in these final years. The one thing that I can say about the addition of the constant oxygen supply is that her hands and feet are warm again and she can be quite lucid. The breathing treatments keep the pneumonia at bay. Perhaps if she had seen a doctor about her chronic bronchitis, back in the day, she would not have gotten so bad. I always attributed her shortness of breath to her weight and perhaps her heart. Now we know that the COPD that is taking her was a long long journey from her days of deep breathing while singing at the Opera House. Some people came through the paint dust unscathed but mom is the proof of this being a work related injury. Too late now but there you have it. She has her own oxygen generator, round-the-clock care and a new plush puppy to add to the group of stuffed animals tucked under her arm in bed.
That is the latest. I have to photograph the pretty new handspun yarn and new additions to the offerings of fiber. Remember, you can ask for any of my colors or colorways in Top. Oh yes and I bought some yummy BFL Superwash Top...I'm just sayin'...