{"id":3353,"date":"2026-02-15T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:06:47","slug":"mostly-solids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/mostly-solids\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Solids This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Just as I was getting ready to dye yesterday, I discovered we were under a tornado watch until 9:00 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0<em><strong>Probably<\/strong><\/em> not a big deal, but my area is prone to power outages during heavy storms and I didn&#8217;t want to have a dye session interrupted (hard to dye in the dark).\u00a0 \u00a0But I had to get it done, so I pressed through.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to get a couple Twinsets done in a splatter-dye (#131-132 and #137-138), both of which included colors I don&#8217;t normally combine.\u00a0 \u00a0Twinset #143-144 is done with a 36-inch gradient fade from darkest to lightest reds.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Twinsets to note are #129-130 and 133-134.\u00a0 Many people have been knitting up versions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/search#query=Melt%20the%20ICE&amp;sort=best&amp;view=captioned_thumbs&amp;page=1\"><strong>Melt the ICE resistance hat<\/strong><\/a> (link to Ravelry), so these Twinsets were dyed for those who want it.\u00a0 I made note of the recipe for these, so I can dye more if you need them.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was somewhat rushing to beat the threatened storm, most of the yarns are solid or mostly solid.\u00a0 \u00a0Twinset #141-142 is a very dark purple-brown-navy blend of colors from last week.\u00a0 \u00a0Any of these would be excellent for your lacework, shawls, scarves, and so forth, or for doing color block work with a mix of solids.<\/p>\n<p>These are all <strong>Phydlbitz Sock 2.0<\/strong> (75\/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino\/Nylon, 460 yards, normally $28.00 each.\u00a0 For Sunday and Monday, visitors are welcome to claim any two or\u00a0 more skeins from this week&#8217;s collection (#121-144)\u00a0 for $26.00 each.\u00a0 \u00a0Just send me an email (<a href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\"><strong>ray@knitivity.com<\/strong><\/a>) to claim the ones you want.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have these ready to ship on Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Available Yarns:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 1 &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">121, 122<\/span><\/del><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>, 123, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">124<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">125<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">126<\/span><\/del><strong>, 127, 128, 129, 130, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">131<\/span><\/del><strong>, 132<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 2 &#8211; 133, 134, 135, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">136<\/span><\/del><strong>, 137, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">138<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">139, 140<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">141<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">142<\/span><\/del><strong>, 143, 144<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3356\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns drying on a rack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack1-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack1-768x830.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3355\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack2.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns drying on a rack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack2-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BRS25-14Feb-Rack2-768x843.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>=================================<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/b5ebTP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ClickSubscribeKnitivityInsider-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a>Want to always get the deals first? 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Just as I was getting ready to dye yesterday, I discovered we were under a tornado watch until 9:00 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0Probably not a big deal, but my area is prone to power outages during heavy storms and I didn&#8217;t want to have a dye session interrupted (hard to dye in the dark).\u00a0 \u00a0But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/mostly-solids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mostly Solids This Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-reader-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}