Bright Yellow Orb

There has been this bright yellow orb in the sky for the last few days. OMG! It’s the SUN! I was beginning to forget what it felt like.

One of the Parrot socks is done. I finished it Tuesday. It looks good.

I’ve barely worked on the second one - 3 inches or so. I’ve been too busy doing boring life stuff. I can tell the second sock isn’t going to match exactly. Why can’t Fleece Artist fix this problem with the inside of the skein being lighter? The blue is almost non-existent in the second one. I try really hard when doing semi-solids to make sure the inside is just as vibrant as the outside.

Has anybody seen the Nature’s Palette line of sock yarns? They are all stunning and reasonably priced for hand dyed yarn. They use natural dyes to achieve the colors on their yarns. I really wanted to get some semi-solid sky blue or teal. Even the Acacia shade of yellow is amazing. I decided Odd Duck #3 was the route to go. I checked it out on Ravelry and it is gorgeous knit up.

The US Copyright office approved my Catawampus Sock Pattern submission. Hurray! I want to stick it up on Ravelry if I can ever catch the pattern sales posting as being “OPEN” to get signed up. In the meantime, if anyone would like a copy, it’s $5. That seems to be the going rate for electronic patterns. I’ll have to email you the pattern directly as I don’t have any other way to set this up. I might put it on Etsy but I’d still have to email you the pattern.  UPDATE: It’s now on Etsy!  I started off with 5 available and if they sell out I’ll list more.

I’ve got a bunch of reskeinning to do this weekend. This is probably the last shop update for a bit. I’ve got to work on a Sweet Sheep order (YAY!).