Fiber Friday, May 23

As promised, oodles of yummy yarn! Clicking the titles will take you directly to the yarn's listing. Can you tell at all that I have summer on the brain?!?

Rainbow Worsted Hand Dyed Yarn

I had a request for this lately, and it was just as easy to make 4 as it was to make 2. 100% Superwash Merino in worsted weight.

Petunias in a Pot

Purple, Pink, and bright orangy-red petunias poke up above leaves and pot in this self-striping yarn. Created for EtsyFAST's MayChallenge, which is 'May Flowers'.

Strawberry Daiquiri

Subtle ombre yarn from frothy pink to intense, hand dyed on Superwash Merino & Nylon sock yarn.

Lime Mojito

Ombre of pale to bright lime green on Superwash Merino/Nylon Sock Yarn.

Embers hand dyed yarn

Yellow, orange, pink, and red create a campfire inspired yarn. On 100% Merino and 80/20% Merino Nylon.

Cutoffs in the Caribbean Hand Dyed Merino/Nylon Sock Yarn

Cool blue water with breaking waves, swaying palm trees, and you....in your favorite cut-off jeans. Bliss.

Down at the Beach Merino Nylon Sock Yarn
Sand and blue water....what more do you need?

Chocolate Bomb Pop Merino Nylon Sock Yarn

Do they make these? They should! Chocolate, strawberry, and blue raspberry swirl around in this sock yarn.

Next week, I'll have some bamboo blend yarn to show you!

Sock Club and Striping Yarn Pre-orders are open!

This is Stars & Stripes, Forever. As you can see, it is a self-patterning red, white, and blue yarn. The stripes knit up to about 2 rows each, and the field of stars to about 4 rows. This year, I will be dyeing this on a new yarn, a Merino/Bamboo/Nylon blend. I've come up with some new ways to streamline production, so I am excited to be able to offer more of them this year. I am taking pre-orders on this yarn so I can order the right amount of base yarn. I hope to offer more this summer, but I'm not making any guarantees beyond the initial pre-orders. Stars & Stripes will be offered in the sock club, also.

This is Rainbow Brite Stripe. This will also be on the Bamboo blend yarn. The shades of colors will be different, but you will get a bright cheerful rainbow with colors that go 2-3 rows on standard socks. This yarn is also offered in the sock club, and separately via Pre-Order.

Super Striped Summer Sock Yarn Club (SSSSYC)

This will be my first (and hopefully not last) sock club. Included in the 3 month club are Stars & Stripes, Rainbow Brite, (both on bamboo blend yarn) and a mystery variegated yarn that will be on my house blend of 80% merino/20% Nylon. Only 12 memberships offered. The price includes Priority Mail shipping (grr....rates going up again in May!), plus a budget for me to pick out some great goodies for you. Call in SSSSYC this summer, cause you have to get those socks knitted!

Fiber Friday, April 18

I got in a new brand of dyes this week, so I don't have bunches to show you, but I hope you'll enjoy them none-the-less!!

This is April Showers, which is a thick and thin art yarn I hand spun from roving I dyed in a gentle blue grey with bits of pink and purple. I plied it with a gray thread and seed beads in blue, purple, and clear...both sparkly and pearlescent.

It hit a treasury that went to the front page on Sunday night, and is now up to 382 views!!!

This purple and pink yarn is the result of the roving I showed you last week. I ended up with about 203 yards, and I'm pretty happy with it. My first ply was not nearly as good as my second, but that is how things go, right?

This is Cinnamon Toast, which is hand dyed on Superwash Merino & Nylon Sock Yarn.

Sapphire is also on the Superwash Merino & Nylon Sock Yarn

This rainbow roving is 85% wool and 15% mohair, from the Brown Sheep Company. There are about 4.1 ounces.

Fiber Friday, April 11

My Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers lace yarn sold out within 5 minutes on Etsy last week, so I made 2 more. One will go up later today on Etsy, the second to follow when the first sells.

After doing clouds, I needed some rainbows, so here is a full study of the genre! All of these are on my favorite base, a Superwash Merino and Nylon blend sock yarn.

Tropical Rainbow - These started out as pure primaries, allowing mixing in between.

Color Wheel - I used more standard red and blue here, which led to a darker green and purple.

Faded Glory Rainbow - I used the same dye stock as Color Wheel, except now they were murked up a bit, and the base yarn was dyed a pale yellow.

Harvest Rainbow - This one is my favorite, and will be impossible to replicate exactly, as I used the same dye baths as above and the base yarn was a weird pale green color.

Cinnamon Fern - Just for good measure, I threw in this study in greens and browns.

As usual, these hand dyed sock yarns will be listed on Etsy and ThePaintedTiger.

I need some viewer input here......do you like the previews? Would you rather the yarn/fiber actually be available in my shop when I post my Fiber Friday posts? Do you say 'Wow, I've gotta have it', and then forget to check back on Monday (when the yarns hit ThePaintedTiger.com ?

Fiber Friday, April 4!

Here's what was dry enough to do something with!!

'Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers' was part commission, and part EtsyFAST challenge (April's theme is Storms). She picked one, this is the other! Laceweight Merino.

Here is some more Koi Pond....I can't hardly keep it in stock, so I made more! The green is a little more loud on this version. Superwash Merino & Nylon Sock Yarn.

I'm calling this 'Purple Rain', mostly so it will fit in the Storms challenge. Can you tell I love purple?!?Here is another version of 'Designer's Challenge'. This one is more brown, and the blue is bluer.And this little stash is for me to play with on my spinning wheel....I have some ideas for art and novelty yarns.

Fiber Friday, March 28

Here's what is 'Fresh from the Dyepot' this week!

Designer's Challenge - I saw this combination in a shelter magazine. The sofa was blue, the walls chocolate, and the lamps and throw pillows were orange. Although not my style for in the house, it makes a striking combination. Don't you want to knit some socks from this hand painted yarn?

Impatiens - This pretty coral pink reminds me of the hanging basket of impatiens my family usually buys for me for Mother's Day.

Ruby Red - This dark red semi-solid yarn was created for a client through Etsy's Alchemy. The base yarn is 70% Merino wool, 30% silk.

Color Wheel - I tried a different method of making my ever popular hand dyed rainbow sock yarn, and this is what happened. The burgundy was a bit of a surprise, but the yarn is still stunning!

Rusty - This yarn started as orange, then I dumped in some red. A week later, I wasn't quite happy with it, and I had some leftover dye from Ruby Red up there, so I over-dyed it again. The beautiful subtle highlights and depth of color were hard to capture on camera.

Orange Red - Ok, I am seldom at a loss for a yarn title, but this one eluded me. This is also an overdye that started more yellowy-orange, and then I added a layer of red.

Nessie - This has to be my favorite this week. I started playing with shades of color, and so here is my blue-green tribute to the legendary Loch Ness Monster.

I will be adding most of these yarns (I made 2 of most) to both ThePaintedTiger.com and my Etsy Shop sometime in the next week, and I'll link up the titles once they are out. Happy Fiber Stalking!!

Fiber Friday, March 14

(Editor's note: This is the same post as on my new blog, http://ThePaintedTiger.com/blog . I just realized it would be really easy to just cut and paste it here.....so I did!)

Here's what is new this week in hand dyed yarns and rovings at ThePaintedTiger!

Cheerful (I made more after it sold out the other day!)

Olive What She's Having (lace)

Lilac & Citron Roving

That 70's Stove (In Roving, Sock, & Aran)




Lime, Cantaloupe, Flamingo, Lemon Ice, and Asparagus Sock Yarns in Semi-solid and Nearly Solids.


I'll be listing these throughout the week, and adding links to this post as I do. All of these will be in my main store, ThePaintedTiger.com, and duplicates of the sock and lace yarns will also be available in my Etsy shop, ThePaintedTiger.etsy.com.

A new website, and new blog!

Hi all! I have finally launched my own independent website for selling my hand dyed yarn and custom knit scarves: ThePaintedTiger.com

In conjunction with that, I have decided to host my blog on that site, too. The new blog is here: ThePaintedTiger.com/blog I did post a Fiber Friday update there, so be sure to check it out!

I'll try keeping up with the two blogs for a bit, and probably choose one over the other. If you mind which format I stay with, be sure to let me know!

Front Page!

On a whim, I checked my hearts on Etsy today. Hmmm....that's strange, I received 11 new hearts today (I generally get 3-4, more if I've been an especially helpful girl in the forums). So I did some research. Turns out that this treasury curated by PoeticPurl was promoted to the front page today. I missed the front pagey-ness, but I did a screenshot of the treasury.

Autumn Aspens is still available in my shop!

In other news, I finally caved, and am launching my own real independant website. I'm busy loading it up now, and I will definitely announce the opening here! So, if you don't see much for new yarn, you will know why! (That, and I'm waiting on a huge yarn shipment!)

The opening of Yarny-Goodness has been delayed due to technical problems out of Pam's control, but she still plans to open soon. I have exciting news about that coming soon, too!

Twins!

Well, it turns out that this week I did a bit of dyeing in pairs. Even double pairs!

These two rainbow skeins were custom hand dyed by request on Worsted Weight Peruvian Wool Yarn, 4.5-5 stitches per inch on #6-9 needles, 220 yards, 100g4 ply. I bought 10 skeins each of the worsted and bulky weights of this yarn, so expect to see them show up over the coming weeks.

To further add to my offerings of hand painted yarn in weights other than sock, I made some Tutti Fruity skeins in both Lace Weight Merino (880 yards), and Worsted Superwash Merino (270 yards). I have two of each.

And finally, remember that last time I didn't want to give up my Forest Glade Yarn? These turned out a bit more intense, but no less lovely! I give you Forest on my ever popular Superwash Merino & Nylon Sock Yarn, and on a Lopi Style Bulky Single Ply. Again, I have two skeins of each.

Thanks for stopping by, and hope the weather is nicer in your neck of the woods. We're up to here in snow and freezing fog, with thunderstorms all at the same time. Very strange. And more snow later this week!