Oh, people! I'm pretty sure I'll be adding handpainted yarn to my store in the near future. Handpainting yarn was FUN! Ellen Minard (from Half-Pint Farms in Vermont) was a wonderful teacher and I learned so much from her and my fellow students. I just wish I'd brought my camera to class. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't. The best part of being in a class with others is seeing what colors they choose. I find myself picking mostly the same colors and when I started using colors I saw others using, I made yarn I loved.
From Sybil, I borrowed her colors of rust, pumpkin and charcoal and added pine green to liven things up and make the colorway my own. I love, love, love this yarn and I can't wait to make myself a pair of socks.
These skeins used cherry, toffee and mountain aqua. Where they combined, I got purple and a lovely green. I haven't decided how much I like this one for myself. I was trying to move away from my usual colors. It's hard to get an idea of how something skeined will look once it's knitted up. It's a keeper for potential sale yarns, though. I have more yarn that I dyed today but it's drying. I'll try and post more pictures tomorrow.
I highly recommend taking a class, or classes, in your chosen interest. You learn so much not only from the instructor, but from your fellow students. This weekend's class was hosted by Artisan Knitworks in Grosse Pointe Park, MI. It was an hour's drive for me (gas prices - Yikes!) but the store is beautiful, the owners extremely nice and helpful and they fed us, which really raises the bar in my opinion. They brought in bagels from my favorite bakery (Brueggers) for breakfast and had lunch catered. There were a certain number of skeins that were included in the materials fee and they had lots of extra yarn of different kinds that they sold to us for wholesale. I, of course, ended up spending more than I'd planned but I'm so happy with how my yarn turned out. I will definitely take classes from Artisan Knitworks again.
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