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April Club Colorway, Hope, and Some Lovely Hand-Dyed Top

March 25, 2022

Good evening! I have had the craziest of weeks, so I am running a little later than usual for my newsletter.

I just have a few things to tell you about this week.

First of all, I have been wanting to do another Mary Cassatt painting for this spring, and I chose something fun that I think you’ll like. It’s a painting she made called “Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly.” Here it is:

Mary Cassatt’s “Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly”

I thought the fact that the painting is of one of us fiber artist types would be delightful. I think I already have a plan for how I’ll be dyeing this up for yarn. Getting the colors of the long row of plants just behind Lydia for the art batts might be a little challenging, but we’ll find a way.

Hope

This week I have been so busy putting together the Eight Days of Easter kits that I have only done a little bit of dyeing compared with a typical week. I did, however, dye up Hope by George Watts on many different yarn bases. Here it is on Squiggle Sock:

Hope by George Watts Shown on Squiggle Sock

I also have it available on lots of other bases and as art batts and hand-dyed top too. You can see them all right here.

Eight Days of Easter Kits

Speaking of those Eight Days of Easter Kits, I have been packaging them up! The last of them will be heading to their new homes early next week. I can’t show you what’s in the eggs because I don’t want to spoil the surprise. I also can’t show you the full-sized skein that’s part of the kit for the same reason, but I can at least show you the basket. Hopefully the Easter Bunny (or is that Yarn Bunny?) won’t mind too much.

Hand-Dyed Top

The other thing I did this week was dye up some top. Here is Afremov’s Farewell to Anger on a really nice superwash merino/nylon blend that would be great for handspun socks:

Afremov’s Farewell to Anger on Superwash Merino / Nylon

I also dyed up some amazingly soft baby camel down/tussah silk top in Monet’s Cathedral and Sapphire Dreams. One of these might “accidentally” find its way to my spinning wheel.

Monet’s Cathedral (left) and Sapphire Dreams (right) on Baby Camel Down / Tussah Silk Top

Sunflower

I am still dyeing up Sunflower and Freedom Blue and donating 25% of the sale of Sunflower to the Ukraine Solidarity Fund through the end of March. Thanks to all of you, we have been able to send $509 their way so far. I have a couple colorways in stock, and I’m still offering both colorways as a preorder through the end of the month.

I think that’s everything for this week. I have something extra special I want to dye up for you before next Friday, but I will wait until then to tell you about it.

Until then, I hope you have a wonderful week and find some time to enjoy the fiber arts. Stay well!