The secret life of yarn dyers

The podcast is coming back and with a vengence. I'm giving up some of the secrets of yarn dying so you can try it for yourself and really let your creativity go wild.

These little yarn puppies will be up on etsy very soon!

Almost dry!

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Episode 14- Spring Cleaning

Show Notes:

Here is some psychotic bunny fun on YouTube


Ok real story, lulu overgrooms ella as well as takes out her neurotic anxious mind by nipping at her. Fast forward- its a sunday a week and a half ago and I'm pulling fur from ella's coat because its getting warmer and if I don't get some of the fur out it will mat up. I notice some of the pieces of fur have pink wet ends. But I keep going. Finally I find where its all coming from. And there is now a 2" round hole in the skin of the bunny. Did I mention its a sunday? Yeah, so I try to calm down because the bunny specialist wouldn't be in until monday anyway. So monday brings the trip to the vet, the shaving of the bun and the suturing of the wound with skin glue. And the vet said it is because the other one (lulu) must have bitten her and it abcessed and that is why her skin was coming off. Delightful, right?

So I'm asking around about what to do with this nut job rabbit. Someone suggested a stuffed animal that she can overgroom and abuse instead of ella. Which worked, but sometimes she gets seriously angry at the hedgehog. Its kind of funny actually so I taped it. :-)

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Music:

Quit My Day Job - Geoffrey C. Smith

Sheep Marketing Ploy (The Ballad of Fenton) - Tom Smith

Patterns:

Stricken Sock Pattern By Cookie A.

Yarns:

Numma Numma from Allen (Indie Dyer Extrordinaire)

Nutella, Boysenberry Preserves, Watermelon Pickle, Fig preserves, Mango Marmalade, - the list could go on it's all fantastic.

On the needles:

The Loopy Ewe Sock club socks

Chevron Scarf in Numma Numma Grape Jam and Nutella - to go with the chevroned La Parisienne hat (should have been more Tam-ish, but it isn't...)

Ruffled Jacket in Lang Thalja

Falling down and learning to get up

I am a pretty good skier. In fact, people might from the point of observer think that I'm a very good skier. The reason is simple. I don't fall. The reason behind it is that I don't know how to get up. Or rather I didn't know how to get up until I skied the Alps. There is something about skiing the alps that makes you believe that if you aren't careful you could ski off the edge of the earth. There were many times I threw myself over on the snow just to avoid going over one sheer edge or another. So I learned how to get back up.

Sometimes life makes us learn how to get back up.

It is important that this is described as something to be learned. I used to be so envious of people who seemed to fall from a featherbed right into into a pot of gold and make it seem so easy. I am sure that there are plenty of people who do just that and it is easy for them. For some of us the instinct is that when something bad happens, just withdraw, tear ourselves apart and then rebuild, but definitely some of the fight is taken out.

But the bounce back can be learned. Tennacity is not an instinctual personality trait as much as a firm belief that you know better than "the world" what your place in the world is meant to be.

New podcast going up this week (at some point) and with Spring finally here, that means more yarn is on its way through the dyepot.

Stay tuned!

Coming unwound

Some days you can feel like you've got the world somewhat figured out, and then as the day wears on you slowly but surely start to feel like the loose ends are getting looser, and like maybe you've been absent-mindedly fiddling with the thread hanging from your sweater, and all of a sudden there's no sweater and a ball of thread at your feet, and all you're left feeling is surprised.