Someone Familiar

I think we may know the spinner in this video...
:)
Miss you all!

Knit Nite!

Hey yall! Nobody showed at Yvonne's last week! This is your friendly reminder that Knit Nite is at my place this week. Yvonne is out of town for her daughter's wedding on the East Coast. Let me know if you plan to come-and we'd better make our official start time 6:30-I just can't get dinner in everyone fast enough when Josh only gets home at 5:45- ya dig?

moved east

the first real piece of mail that i received at the new address was my National Geographic today. :) this makes me happy. i don't really get much mail that is not junk or bills, so the fact that my mail here started off with my only magazine subscription just made my heart smile. and my face. i'm pretty much smiling all over. something i learned today: hibernating toads stay in badger dens. who knew? well. national geographic did, i guess. anywho, just writing to let you know that i'm here, safe and sound, and with my yarn stash intact. :)

more to come later.

Kool-Aid Dyeing Workshop

Fall Dye Workshop $25.oo per person

October 5th 12:00pm
825 East Grant Street, Spearfish
Registration Deadline September 10th

Subject material to include: Basic dye techniques you can do at home without any special equipment. We will be dyeing with food safe dyes, including Wilton’s Icing Gels and Kool-Aid drink mixes using handpainting and immersion dyeing techniques.

Registration includes 2 skeins of yarn: one dark worsted weight and one light (superwash in your choice of DK or sock weight,) turkey dinner, and soda. Additional skeins of yarn available for $6.00 each.

Register with us at grays at graywolfenterprises dot com (email address typed out to keep the bots from grabbing it) or by sending me (Alpacawacka) a msg via Ravelry.

Please bring 3 or more unsweetened Kool-aid drink mixes in varying colors for each skein of yarn to be dyed, a side dish to share and one crockpot. Various colorcharts have been collected by the good people at the What a Kool Way to Dye group on Ravelry.

Dyeing Workshop

Here are photos of the dyeing workshop we did on Saturday. I forget how giddy one feels after dyeing their first skein... it's like cocaine coursing through your veins... or at least that's how I imagine it feels... There are eight new addicts reading food labels and looking at Red Dye #40 in a whole new light and developing new reasons to buy vinegar in the gallon sized bottles. We even had a few intrepid souls drive up from Rapid City to join us.

hello from the lost hooker

hello all! i hope you are all having a great summer... i am, but there is a significant lack of internets. :) i haven't had a spare minute to work on anything, but i've thought about it. i can't wait to get back and see you all and see just how big those babies are getting!

Take care!

Rachel

For the babywearers on your list!

Check this contest out. It's enough to make a mama faint! And if you don't want them for yourself, you could always enter and gift them to me...

Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride (one Beco Butterfly, one Hotsling baby pouch, one BabyHawk Mei Tai, one Zolowear Ring Sling, and one Gypsy Mama Wrap)