Butternut Woolens

Well, we're still having a good time knitting and telling stories here in Rural, America, despite the short gray days that make me want to stick knitting needles in my eyes and peruse waste time looking at the Spring fashion collections except there isn't much to see yet and there's only so much grayish white snow and flat gray sky and flatter gray trees and dark greenish gray mountains a person can look at before she comes undone and dyes too much pink. Loud azalea pink. And sunflower yellow and delphinium blue and sedum green.

Erika, a reporter now with the Kalispell Daily Interlake and formerly with the Chicago Sun-Times wrote a good article about My Year of Doing Nothing blog and dye work. Nathan of the DIL took some lovely pictures. You can read the article with colored photos here.

Butternut Woolens Silkie 60% merino/40% silk, single ply aran weight. Available at the Madrona Fiber Arts Festival, Tacoma, WA Feb. 11-14. After Madrona, it'll be available here on the website.

More Silkie in mango-y/papaya (I swear I don't know how these colors got in the dye pot. I'm trying to dye rock colors. Rocks are generally not the colors of tropical fruit.)

These Thick n Thin yarns are still available. Click on Thick n Thin on the sidebar to the right and specify in the messages section of your order that you want a yellow one. The blue-greens are already posted in the store. There are 6 of them.