Tea Time Fibers October 2022

A few years ago we hosted Willow Tree Yarns at the shop for a hand-dye class. Everyone had a great time, dyed a skein of their own yarn, and never thought about it again.  Everyone except Nicole Van Kuiken, that is.  I had no idea she'd been bitten by the hand-dye bug, and then the next thing you know, she's bringing in a whole pile of yarns she's dyed up for me to see.  To say that I was impressed would be quite an understatement. 

Nicole's sense of color is outstanding. She's able to re-create an inspiration piece in yarn, and she can tweak a color just so.  But what impresses me the most is her consistency among skeins and even from dye lot to dye lot. It's something I've never seen. Maybe she's just careful, but I think it might have something to do with her background as a chemical engineer.  I'm sure she was the one with the super-detailed lab notebook and straight As. 

Whatever and however, I'm just glad she's doing it.  And I'm especially glad she's exclusive to Crazy for Ewe.  

She and Jenny have been collaborating on colors and bases for our monthly offerings for some time now.  I've kept the orders small, and haven't put the yarn on line, until now that is.  

In addition to our monthly colors, we're planning quarterly themed sock kits with a custom pattern, a themed stitch marker, and more.  I think it will be fabulous.  If you're interested in being in the know on that, sign up for our Sock Knitters' newsletter, a separate mailing just about socks and sock  yarn.  

This month's Tea Time colors are

Jack-o-lantern

 For this rich, warm pumpkin tonal, Jenny recommends the Little Pumpkins pattern.  The cute pumpkins stitch pattern would show up perfectly in our Jack-o-lantern colorway.