Potluck Hanks

For those of you who may be wondering, Potluck Hanks are what I've decided to name certain colorways that are unrepeatable. They are dyed using leftover dyes from previous skeins, so the results are a potluck of dyes! Dyeing this way is just as much fun as creating the dyes for an intended colorway. Only in this process, I never know what's going to come out of my pot...ah...the mystery!

Potluck Dye Pot

Here are two more hanks for our shop, both on the Sofee Sock base, and both are Potluck hanks:

Bing Cherries


Midnight Iris

Anne Shirley Dyepot

Here are the skeins produced with the dyes from the teaser photo I posted.

We have Lady Cordelia:


on our Sofee Sock base

And Depths of Despair:

on our Blue-te-FuL Sock base

There was another skein to go along with these, but it got snatched up by one of my knitting group members before I got the chance to photograph it!

A Taste of Dyepots to Come

Here's a sample of what this week's dyepot results will look like.


I am just thrilled about these vibrant colors. It's taking all my will power to wait until my hanks have properly soaked to get started...just you wait, hanks, just you wait!

January Dyepot - American Classics

Here are the latest updates to our shop.

House of the Rising Sun



Free Bird



These two skeins were inspired by another skein that was finished in December:

Miss American Pie



I thought, "Wouldn't it be fun to come up with some color schemes themed on Classic Rock songs?!!" So, these were what my "little gray cells" came up with!

Both were hand painted, one on our BFL base and the second on Sofee Sock. I didn't notice at the conception time of Free Bird, but the colors are identical (or near enough) to the team colors of the University of Alabama! This happens to be my father's favorite team, and I have left-over dye, so.... I am going to dye another skein for my dad and knit him a pair of socks! I love it when things work out like this.

From th Dyepot - A Walk in the Woods

I found inspiration for this week's colorways in the trees' reactions to the cooling temperatures. It still amazes me that such colors are possible, and I always find myself wishing the leaves could hold onto their limbs just a little while longer.

Crepe Myrtle

Dogwood

Lichen

The day after I captured these photos, a wind storm came through and blew off most of the leaves!

And here are the most recent dyeworks:

Crepe Myrtle

Dogwood

Lichen

These are available in our shop!

From the Dyepot - Hard Candy

This week's theme is Hard Candy! I was inspired by my first skein, which I just dyed because I wanted something pink. In trying to discover its name, hard candy flitted through my mind, and I thought, "That's it!" Let's make a trio.

Here's the one that started it all - Watermelon


Then - Green Apple


And, finally - Lemon



These "candies" will be available in our shop tomorrow!

From the Dyepot - Tilt-Shifted Van Gogh

Now that the newest Farina is a bit more independent and regulated, I have finally been able to start dyeing yarn again!! I have missed this so much, as it is a great creative outlet for me. I have always loved painting, but I am no good at it; dyeing yarn combines two art loves of mine - knitting and painting. What could be better?!

I recently chanced upon my latest inspiration for my dye-works while searching for inspiration for a project involving my barren living room wall. Artcyclopedia featured an article on tilt-shifting pieces of work by Vincent van Gogh. It was stunning to see those vibrant paintings manipulated in a way that made one's eyes see them anew. I definitely recommend checking it out!

Here are the three paintings that called to me the most:

Starry Night on the Rhone





Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow




Landscape at Auvers after the Rain




These will all be available in our shop later today!