Chickenlips Knitting

Here is a smallish watch cap, your basic 2 x 2 rib, made in Butternut Woolens handpainted yarn. I bought this skein from Shelly last September at Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival, and now I can't remember if it is her sock yarn. It's a bit on the sport weight/DK side. I loved working with it--a great color palette, soft and sproingy feel. If I could be half the fiber artist Shelly is, I'd be very happy.

Biz Notes

Today I fought the mob at Ikea and bought this, except in birch, not white. I'm building a good size inventory, and need a place to put it. In the meantime, though, I'm having fun dyeing, and just for schnitzengiggles I made these.

Colorway: "Alice Cooper". I custom-mixed a shade I call "goblin green," and combined it with stage blood red and raven black. It's getting tons of hits on Etsy, which is encouraging.

This colorway is "Gene Simmons". Stage blood red, kabuki makeup white, studs 'n' spikes silver and raven black. I put it on my favorite Ravelry discussion board, "Love to Dye," and it got positive comments. It's good to know there are other sick individuals out there.

Because I don't want to limit myself to sock yarn, I kettle dyed a couple small skeins of superwash worsted weight merino last week. This is the prettier of the two.

I call the colorway "Salmon Dave" but wait, it isn't my bad pun! A few years ago there was an R&B ensemble in the Portland area called Salmon Dave. They were smokin hot. I imagine they have disbanded by now, because I haven't paid much attention to the local music scene since Sweaty Nipples, but I hope they reunite sometime.

And that's about it--I'd better get back in the TV room before they eat all the chips. Ciao!

# posted by Sharon @ 3:38 PM