Happy Sunday!

After getting some feedback, I decided to try more of the Confetti dye method.  I may have gone a little bit overboard this week.  Or maybe a lot overboard?  I don’t know; I’ll let all y’all tell me.

What I do know is that this week there are none of my customary DumpDyes, Monochrome solids, or Fades.  At all.  Not a single one of those  particular methods were used this week.

Instead, there are plenty of Confetti dyes, as well as some smoosh and splash dyes, a few segmented dyes, and even a muddle (#753-754, a base of deep red with some black randomly muddled  over it.)

The Confetti dyes all have 4 colors, and there are at least 2 colors on all the others.  The beauty of this dye technique is that you can wear socks or a scarf/shawl in one of these dyes, and coordinate it with a main garment or suit of any of the colors in the yarn.

These were all dyed on Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 (75% Superwash 25-micron Merino/25% Nylon, 460 yards), and are normally $28.00 each skein.  For Sunday and Monday, however, visitors are invited to claim any matching Twinset for just $25.50 per skein.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email (ray@knitivity.com) with your selections.  I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns table shown below, and then send you a PayPal invoice for your total plus postage inside the U.S.  Let me know if you are outside the U.S., of course, as rates will vary based on your country.

I expect to have these ready to ship on or about Wednesday or Thursday.  (We’re forecast to have the remnants of Hurricane Polo later this week — hopefully it will fizzle out over Mexico before hitting south Texas.)

Available Yarns: 
Rack 1 – 751, 752, 753, 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 762
Rack 2 – 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774

Happy Sunday!

And welcome to new subscribers!  Since my ultimate goal is to sell every new skein every week, I need to let more subscribers see my new yarns each week.  I really do appreciate all the Knitivity Insiders who keep viewing my yarns and showing them to others when they arrive in your mailbox.

I started the dye session thinking I would make some Christmas Twinsets, combining a Christmas Green (#737-738) with Christmas red (#749-750). But then I figured if someone wants that combination they can just take one of each Twinset.  Or you could just ask for Knitivity Green #1 and Knitivity Fiery Red in whatever quantities you need.  Nearly all my yarns are one-of-a-kind dye jobs, but these two are done the same way every time since 2006.

Among the other yarns are some Confetti dyes (#735-736, 743-744, and 747-748), in various color combinations.  These are especially great for children’s socks, in my opinion.

I often combine left bits of teal with turquoise for a gloriously rich solid, but this week I combine a little teal with the last of the royal blue to create Twinset #733-734.   These combinations are not by standard recipe; I just combine whatever leftover portions there are toward the end of a dye session.

All of these are Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 (75/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino/Nylon, 460 yards each) — say “Fiddle Bits” and you’ve got it right.  For those new here, it means Positively Helping Your Dyer Land Back In The Zone.

Anyway, each hand-dyed Phydlbitz Sock yarn is normally $28.00 each, but for today and tomorrow you can claim any two or more skeins from this week’s collection (#727 – 750) for just $26.00 each.

Every skein I dye is shown; these aren’t just representative samples of  larger dye lot.  Most commonly I dye Twinsets, but if you need more than two skeins of matching yarn, you are welcome to request a custom order.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email with your numbered selections.  I’ll send you a PayPal invoice and mark your selections off the Available Yarns table (shown below). That way others can see which yarns are still available when they visit.

I expect to have this week’s collection ready to ship on or about Thursday.

Available  Yarns: 
Rack 1 – 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738
Rack 2 – 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750

There are nearly 4 dozen matching Twinsets on the Blog Reader Specials page.  All day today, Tuesday, September 15, all matching Twinsets will be invoiced at 20% OFF.   Non-matching Solo skeins will be invoiced at 15% OFF as well.  In case I go to bed early, all emails time-stamped by midnight will be honored at this Twinset TWOS-day deal.

I’ve moved all the Twinsets to the top of the BRS page, and will be mixing up the Solo skeins later as well.

Visit the Blog Reader Specials page today (Friday, 11 Sept 2026), order any two or more skeins and get FREE SHIPPING inside the U.S.!   Shown here are the newest yarns added to the page, but there are dozens of other beautiful yarns available and ready to ship.

Happy Saturday!

Here in the U.S., this is Labor Day Weekend.  Monday is observed as Labor Day, to honor and celebrate the workers in our country — anyone who gets up to go to work in exchange for a paycheck.  It was started September 5, 1882, with a parade of union workers in New York City.    Later, as Dr. Heather Cox Richardson writes, “On June 28, 1894, [President Grover] Cleveland signed Congress’s bill making Labor Day a legal holiday. Each year, the first Monday in September would honor the country’s workers.”

Anyway, my Labor Day Weekend will be spend processing this week’s yarns and looking for other ways to show my yarns so more people can enjoy them.

This week’s collection (BRS26 – #703 – 726) is a mixed bag of dye techniques — some sprinkles, some fades, and some solids and nearly solids.

The one Twinset I wanted to point out is #709-710.   It was a blend of teal and blue and navy, stirred together into a single color in the dye bath.  When it came out of the spin cycle this morning, it is evident there are marvelous little shimmies and glimmers of dark blue quite distinct from the teal.  I’m not sure how this happens, but I’m delighted when it does because the resulting yarn is amazing to look  at; I figure it is something to do with the chemicals and pigments used in creating the various dyes.

These are all Phydlbitz Sock 2.0, 75/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino/Nylon, 460 yards each.  These are normally $28.00 a skein, but for all of Labor Day Weekend, visitors are welcome to claim any two or more from this week’s collection for just $25.50 each.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email with your requested item numbers.  I’ll mark your requests off from the Available Yarns table, below, and then send you a PayPal invoice for those yarns and shipping.  If you are outside the U.S. please let me know with your request.

I expect to have these dried and processed, ready to ship on or about Wednesday or Thursday this coming week.

Available Yarns:
Rack 1 – 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714
Rack 2 – 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721, 722,  723, 724, 725, 726

G’morning, and Happy Saturday!

Twenty-one years ago today (28 August 2005), Hazel and I hunkered down under a work table as Hurricane Katrina roared overhead.   Hazel was a Lab-Chow mix I’d had only a few months, since her owner had to move back to New York.   Hazel was a handful, to be sure, but usually she was a good girl.  She was evacuated to the home of a Cajun family north of New Orleans, while I finally found a ride to Houston to stay with one of my kids until it was safe to return to New Orleans.  I never saw her again, but she was taken in with good people and I’m sure she lived her life with loads of love.

A year to the day after Katrina first hit, I moved to Houston permanently and never had a normal paycheck again.

Since this anniversary is on a weekend, I think we should have an anniversary sale for the Last Weekend of the Month.

But first, I’m interested to know what you do with Phydlbitz Sock yarn.  Obviously, I know about socks and shawls and sweaters and baby things, but I’m wondering what other people do with sock yarns.  What sort of crafts beyond knitting and crochet do you do?

Also, where do you hang out online?  I spend most of my online time on Facebook and Instagram, but I know there are crafters using all sorts of social media platforms and I’d love to explore new areas to inspire new dyeing ideas.

Here is the collection of Phydlbitz Sock yarn that I added to the Blog Reader Specials page this week:

Now, through Monday, all the yarns on the Blog Reader Specials page will be invoiced at $21.00 per skein, so it’s a three-day weekend sale!  As they say, order early order often.

As always, to claim any of the available yarns, just send me an email and I’ll get your requests taken care of.

I’ve been juggling several things and I failed to announce the newest additions to the Blog Reader Specials page.

Here is the collection of Superwash Merino, worsted wt.:

And here is this past weekend’s collection of Phydlbitz Sock 2.0:

Happy Saturday!

First off, I want to welcome the newest subscribers to this Knitivity Insider announcement list.  If you’re reading this on the Blog, please consider signing up.  It’s free, and I promise not to fill your inbox with a lot of emails.  I send out roughly one announcement each week, and only to show off my newest collection of hand-dyed yarns.  I mostly dye sock yarns, but sometimes a collection of lace, sport, or worsted weight yarns might appear.  And the Knitivity Insiders will always get a better Preview Pricing deal.

Most weeks I use a variety of dye techniques, but this week I stayed with just two methods.

On Rack 1, all the yarns were dyed with a sprinkle-spray of one color, followed by a dip bath or ‘wash’.   Twinset #655-656 is a mix of sky blue and gray with a powder blue wash. On #657-658 I did a heavy sprinkled of both navy and gold, followed with a clear wash.  #659-660 is a straight red sprinkle with a powder pink wash; #661-662 is a peacock blue with a powder blue wash; #663-664 is a gold sprinkle and pale yellow wash.  Twinset #665-666 is a dual sprinkle of peacock and teal, again with a powder blue wash.

Rack 2 features a whole rack of solidly-solid dyes which I think came out excellently this time.  Sometimes my solids look like kettle dyes, but this week’s collection doesn’t seem to have much variation at all.  Part of this is due to how much dye I used, and partly due to how long I saturated the yarn in the dye bath.   These will, of course, make excellent socks as well as your lace work and other textured knitting.  Also, these are the ones you want to combine with multi-color yarns as strong contrast for stranded knitting.

These are all on Phydlbitz Sock 2.0 (75/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino/Nyon, 460 yards each), and normally retail for $28.00 each.  For Saturday and Sunday, visitors are invited to take any two or more skeins for $26.00 each.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email with your numbered selections.  I will marked your selections from the Available Yarns table just above the images and then send you a PayPal invoice.

I expect to have these dried, reskeined, and ready to ship on or about Wednesday.

Available Yarns: 
Rack 1 – 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 666
Rack 2 – 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678

Happy Saturday to you!

I used the Superwash Merino worsted weight this week.  Because of the yardage that comes on some of the cones, I was able to pull up 28 skeins this week, and chose to make a few Solo skeins, along with mostly Twinsets.

And while most of the yarns this week were dyed with a single color, a few came from pre-blended dyes leftover from last week’s leftover colors.   Like #636-637 is leftover blackened-red from last week.

Twinset #638-639 is from a dye jar labeled “Fluorescent Red”.  Into the remaining dye in the bath I added chestnut to create Twinset #647-648.

There are two different kinds of purple this week — #650-651 is a deep rich solid, while the Solo #627 allowed me to capture the remaining purple dye in the bath, so it isn’t quite as deep and rich.

Most of the yarns are solid or nearly-solid, but some look like kettle dyes. There are several fades as well, such as #630-631, which is a fade of the leftover dye from #644-645.  And #632-633 is a fade from the remaining dye in the bath after dyeing #646-647.

As I mentioned, these are all 100% Superwash Merino, worsted wt., 220 yards each, and will be $28.00 on the Blog Reader Specials page.  For Saturday and Sunday, visitors are invited to select any two or more skeins for just $26.00 at Preview Pricing.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email .  I’ll mark your request off the Available Yarns table shown below, and then send a PayPal invoice.  Even if you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still use your debit or credit card and they will process it for me so I never see your payment method or personal account information.

I expect to have these ready to ship on or about Wednesday this coming week.

Available Yarns: 
#1:  627, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640
#2:  641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654