OK…. I can not keep quiet any longer. What is my position on STASH BUSTING or BUILDING???

Let’s preface this post by saying, I am an Indie businesswoman that loves her little yarn business. I love my clients. I love the process of dyeing. Selling yarn allows me to dye more. (Note:I do use the extra income for more than my fiber addiction).

I love my clients. You rock. You knit with my babies and take them to the next level… the level where they become a garment (or art).

I am hoping that my clients can choose for themselves if they need to bust through some stash. If you think you should stop buying yarn because it is eating into your finances/lifestyle… than you should. Make a personal decision.

I know that I ?should listen?to my?own inner voice. I buy yarn if I can… I?won’t take out a second mortgage if?I can’t. Don’t give away the cat or kid if you can’t feed them,right? (if it was my cat…I may have a hard decision with that one! LOL)

I know that my binge after the diet is much worse that the actual occaisional indulgence.

Enough said. To all of you STASH BUSTERS… I think I can speak for all of us Indie yarn-dyers by saying… see you at 12:01 am the day after Labor Day. Good luck and strength to you.

To all of you STASH BUILDERS…. pssst! I have some candy for you….

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Hey everybody? I am back in Charm City (again? go ask the SOAP TURTLE where that is!).

I had a very nice jaunt up to the Tri-State?.( I was in all 3 states ,you know!)

We visited my mother(s), and brother(s) and sister. A few rough nights?of sleep (the cowboy was VERY excited to see his family after such a long time). But? It was a wonderful mini-family vacation. Going home is always so nice for me.

We went to the Sculpture Garden at Pepsi World HQ?.. it is really a beautiful place. The cowboy got to run around under the Caulder Giraffes feed some HUGE Carp and KOI ( I was informed that only the brightly colored fish are called KOI. The brown ones are CARP). He got to play with his neenie and my sister BIRD. (Yes? she has red hair? and yes that is a colorway named after her).

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Think that I am in love with him?

or him??? Here are my boys chasing each other around a sculpture…

My baby sister looking at a totem….

I love these fish… they were HUGE! I think they look like wise old men. I am going to have to do more with KOI.

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Here is an AMAZING stand of trees …. very MAY PS! I thought of you , Lolly!

Here is the skinny:

Project Spectrum Colorway Giveaway!

I will announce on or around the first day of the month when the contest opens. You leave a comment between the specified dates… I enter your name to win the colorway of the month! Simple, right?

For my sock clubbers… since you are automatically getting the colorway… I will send you a seperate skein in another colorway! Sound good?

Ok….. leave a comment by SUNDAY May 28th to be entered in the June-Bug drawing!

Go ahead and put me in your bloglines (*hint*hint*link on the sidebar*hint*hint*) so you will know when the drawing opens up each month!

We are on for June…

Ready? Set? COMMENT!

UPDATE:

I am off for a couple days to the tri-state area…. if your comment does not appear…NO WORRIES. I have to approve all initial comments to post. The date you comment will be recorded and you will be entered in the drawing!

I am almost to the June -Bug PS finish line. I am so close to done with the girls for the sock clubbers. Here she is if you havent seen her.

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I usually get a little wonky after a large run… especially if it is the same colorway. I like her… I keep meaning to save a skein for me.. but I never do.

I keep thinking that there are two types of artists… you know the debate… process or product. I am so about the process. Don’t get me wrong…. I need the product to be visually appealing and well crafted. There is just something about the process of this dyeing that quiets my pretty over-active brain.

I have mentioned that I studied fine arts. I loved my studio time. Me, a big piece of paper with a hefty tooth to it, some charcoal or conte’ crayon, and a boom box. (Yes… we all had boom boxes.) I could spend hours on the thing. At the beginning of the session it felt like the piece was fuzzy and out of focus. With each stroke, each line, each addition and each subraction, my vision would start to clear. And eventually, there would be the moment that you knew it was done. You felt it was done. Instinctually, you knew you had finished whatever you started.

This whole fiber arts road that I am on is really fufilling that need in me. The need to tie myself to something bigger. Creating really is my joy. I forgot that for awhile. I am glad I am remembering now.

So, the Project Spectrum thing. I am so glad my girl Lolly?had the idea. I figure my participation is in the yarn dyeing… I am having a hard time with the keeping up with knitting in the color.? Well, I am having a hard time in keeping up with a lot these days.

I am blue… but in the best of all possible ways. There is a mound of blue yarn waiting to make it’s way to you all….

OH! Speaking of that! I am doing the last run of June Bug tomorrow for the?Sock Club. ?PLEASE let me know if ANYONE wants a single skein of her. I can slip it into the run easily. I am going away for the weekend and want to be set before?I head to Connecticut.

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Click on the girls to see some new C*EYE*BER FIBERS…..

The style for the blog is as done as it is going to be for awhile. I keep loosing posts…. I am so not a dumbass.. smart HTML figurer outer.

There. Whew!

OK…. Everybody leave a comment over here.. and tell Jen she did good on the graphics! Leave a comment for me and tell me that this is worth all of my frustration because I am feeling sorry for myself…. a little overwhelmed!

Thanks! Yarn update tomorrow!

I have been reading about the knitting blahs… the loss of the knitting mojo. I, myself, have felt the non-mojoesque like feelings as of late. I have whined… I have *sigh* ed… and now… I am enamoured. I knit a square. Mind you not just any square… a log cabin square from the Mason Dixon Book.

There is something so soothing about the patterns in the book. I am doing a log cabin baby blanket for a friend who is due any minute. Here it is: