{"id":4303,"date":"2026-09-05T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:07:07","slug":"play-with-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/play-with-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Playing With Colors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>Here in the U.S., this is Labor Day Weekend.\u00a0 Monday is observed as Labor Day, to honor and celebrate the workers in our country &#8212; anyone who gets up to go to work in exchange for a paycheck.\u00a0 It was started September 5, 1882, with a parade of union workers in New York City.\u00a0 \u00a0 Later, as Dr. Heather Cox Richardson writes, &#8220;On June 28, 1894, [President Grover] Cleveland signed Congress\u2019s bill making Labor Day a legal holiday. Each year, the first Monday in September would honor the country\u2019s workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my Labor Day Weekend will be spend processing this week&#8217;s yarns and looking for other ways to show my yarns so more people can enjoy them.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s collection (BRS26 &#8211; #703 &#8211; 726) is a mixed bag of dye techniques &#8212; some sprinkles, some fades, and some solids and nearly solids.<\/p>\n<p>The one Twinset I wanted to point out is #709-710.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a blend of teal and blue and navy, stirred together into a single color in the dye bath.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure how this happens, but I&#8217;m delighted when it does because the resulting yarn is amazing to look\u00a0 at; I figure it is something to do with the chemicals and pigments used in creating the various dyes.<\/p>\n<p>These are all Phydlbitz Sock 2.0, 75\/25 Superwash 25-micron Merino\/Nylon, 460 yards each.\u00a0 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&#8217;s collection for just $25.50 each.<\/p>\n<p>To claim the ones you want, just <a href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\"><strong>send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your requested item numbers.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll mark your requests off from the Available Yarns table, below, and then send you a PayPal invoice for those yarns and shipping.\u00a0 If you are outside the U.S. please let me know with your request.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have these dried and processed, ready to ship on or about Wednesday or Thursday this coming week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Available Yarns:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 1 &#8211; 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 2 &#8211; 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721, 722,\u00a0 723, 724, 725, 726<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4307\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns in many colors, hanging on rack to dry. \" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack1-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack1-768x776.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack2x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4309\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack2x.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyed yarns in many colors, hanging on rack to dry. \" width=\"800\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack2x.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack2x-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRS26-04Sep-Rack2x-768x798.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday! Here in the U.S., this is Labor Day Weekend.\u00a0 Monday is observed as Labor Day, to honor and celebrate the workers in our country &#8212; anyone who gets up to go to work in exchange for a paycheck.\u00a0 It was started September 5, 1882, with a parade of union workers in New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/play-with-colors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Love Playing With Colors!<\/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-4303","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\/4303","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=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}