Happy Sunday!

Houston (and much of Texas) is experiencing heavy rains and some flooding in various areas lately.  My yard was slightly flooded Friday when I needed to get to clinic and the waters hadn’t gone done while I was away several hours.  Fortunately it didn’t come even as high as my ramp this time, so that was a relief.

I’ve had some ongoing health issues that I can’t figure out, and have several more doctor appointments this month so my dyeing is rather out of sync from what I normally prefer.  I’d not dyeing at all this weekend, but I was able to post the unclaimed yarns from last weekend.  Here is the group shot of the unclaimed yarns:

The Shropshire 160 yarns are posted to the Blog Reader Specials page.  The Phydlbitz Sock have been held aside to join the Blind Bundle special deal.  In order to rebuilding the Web site, I have to organize the available yarns, find and upload their pictures, and re-create the BRS page.   I’ve done that for all the non-Phydlbitz yarns, but I figured we’d have some fun with the Phydlbitz.

Empty the Bins!

All week (May 5 – 11)  Everything on the Blog Reader Specials page will be invoiced at 10% off.  Just email me your requests and I will take care of it for you.

BLIND BUNDLES!

There are still many dozen Phydlbitz Sock Blog Reader Specials not shown on this page, most from before the Web site crash.  Rather than reloading them here as I rebuild the Website I am offering THREE PHYDLBITZ SOCK for $70.00 (you save $12.50) as a Blind Bundle.   I will select three skeins for you, and I will do my best to make pleasant combinations.  Just tell me how many Blind Bundles you want and I’ll take care of it for you.  I can fit up to 12 skeins of Phydlbitz into a single flat-rate Priority ship box ($15.00 inside the U.S.).  No additional discounts on Blind Bundles. 

Once most of the Blind Bundles are claimed, I will begin re-loading pictures of any remaining yarns next week.

I will be shipping orders on Wednesday and Saturday, and hope to have new yarns dyed to show next Sunday.

 

Happy Sunday!

I hope your Sunday is going well.  I’ve been up since before 3:00 thanks to poor sleeps and some (hopefully) minor health issues.  Thankfully, I have several visits with labs, doctors, and scans coming in the next few weeks, and things should be explained and dealt with soon enough.  The first half of May will be …. ummm…. “interesting” and should be informative.  Unfortunately, dealing with health issues may mean some weird scheduling for dyeing and showing yarns, but I’ll do my best to stick to a semi-regular schedule.

Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to figure out how to use the new WordPress templates to make the Web site look better.  That’s at the top of my agenda for the coming week.  I’ll be uploading all the non-Phydlbitz Sock BRS yarns first

This week I set out to (finally!) do some more of the Shropshire yarns like a shared a few weeks ago.  There are a dozen or more cones in the box labeled as Shropshire, but as I was pulling hanks it was evident that some were the chunky/bulky yarns like before, some were spun quite small, almost like fingering.   I finally quit trying to figure it out, and supplemented this week’s Blog Reader Specials collection with some Phydlbitz Sock.  At least I know how Phydlbitz behaves.   🙂

The Phydlbitz Sock yarns were dyed as Twinsets using a dry-on-wet technique (dry dye powder on acid-wet yarns), which I’ve not done in a while.  Twinset #353-354 was actually dip-dyed in a pale gray-pink, and then overdyed with a mix of teal and yellow; you can’t really see the undercoat.   Twinset #349-350 is a turquoise fade with navy tip.

The Shropshire 160 yarns were all dyed as single skeins, and were mostly dip-dyed as solids.  I tried leaving them dipped longer to see if I could get better saturation than last time; in some cases it worked, but in other cases they came up with variations, almost like kettle-dyed.  They are still rich and fabulous colors, of course.

Phydlbitz Sock is normally $27.50 each.  The Shropshire 160 is $24.00.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email.  I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below, and send you a PayPal invoice.  On payment, I’ll print your shipping label so your package is ready to ship when the yarns are all dried.

I expect to have this week’s collection ready to ship on Thursday or Saturday (I’m at clinic this Friday).

Available Yarns
Rack1 – 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360
Rack 2 – 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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G’morning, and Happy Sunday!

I had planned to dye more of the Shropshire yarns for this weekend, but with the issues with the Website crashing (the hosting service servers crashed) I decided to do Phydlbitz Sock this week so I could focus on getting the rest of the Website back up as best I can.  For now it is just the Blog posts, and an empty Blog Reader Specials page.  I will be rebuilding that this coming week. I have all the  pictures on my external hard drive, but I have to go through the bins one by one and manually reproduce the new BRS page which will take some time.

By the way, I am really not loving this particular WordPress theme, but it is what came with the new Website package.  I’ll be looking for a better theme in the next week or so.

So, I pulled out two dozen hanks and got them into the pre-dye soaker bin, and then pulled out enough different dyes for 10 dye jars.  Normally I try to get some warm colors, some cool colors, and some neutrals; some darks and some lights, too.  I think I got a pretty good mix of colors this week, and made some interesting combinations, too.

Twinset #331-332 came out a little surprising; I wasn’t really aiming for or expecting the confetti look, but I like it.  I think these will make some amazing socks on their own, but would also make for an interesting contrast panel.   Twinset #327-328 has a turquoise fade at one end with a magenta-on-blue splattering at the other end.

Many of this week’s Twinsets will look amazing as cowls, scarves, or even shawls.  Another idea would be to gather all your leftover bits of sock yarns into mitered squares, and then outline them all with a unifying solid or semi-solid contrast color.

These are all Phydlbitz Sock (75/25 Superwash Corriedale/Nylon, 430 yards), and normally $27.50 each.  For Sunday and Monday this week, you can take a matching Twinset for $25.50 each.

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email with your numbered requests.   I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below, and then send you a PayPal invoice.  It’s okay if you don’t have a PayPal account, as they will process your debit or credit cards just fine.   When your invoice is paid, I’ll purchase and print your shipping label and you should receive a shipping notice with your USPS tracking number.   I expect this week’s collection to be processed and ready to ship on or about Thursday.

Available Yarns:
Rack 1 – 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336
Rack 2  – 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348