January Colorways

Here are the new January Colorways! They are available for pre-order in the shop at a 5% discount through January 1, 2012 and there is also free shipping on order in the US and Canada through January 1, 2012.

Hope you enjoy them!

January's Garnet

 

Ice Breaker

 

NYC New Year's Celebration

 

Winter Pastels

 

 

 

I am a Fan! Yes, I AM!

In anticipation of the start of the upcoming NBA Basketball season…..

I dyed up some sock yarn……

 

And then I began to knit………

I can almost hear the game music begin….

New Blog and other Fun Stuff….

I have spent the past several hours moving all of the blog posts relating to Desert Vista Dyeworks from the Triple S and D Ranch Blog.  I am feeling the need to be more organized on the business end of things and am hoping that this will be easier for everyone to navigate. 

Information about puppies will still be posted at the Triple S and D Ranch Blog.  I will be posting some good news, soon—-looks like we will have a new litter of puppies in the next couple of weeks.

The dye pots have been boiling the past couple of weeks and there have been some new shop updates over the past couple weeks that included several more self-striping yarns.

There is a new contest on the Ravelry Group for January Themed Colorways. Come on over and join us! The creativity of our members has been so much fun!

Here is one of the new self stipers…

It's an Arizona Thing

November 21, 2011 If you were a knitter…

If you were a knitter, you could make fun things like these…..

Gobble Gobble!

 

Yummy!

 

 

Hoo Hoo!

Oops! That one was crochet.

 

 

You’re a Mean One…Socks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the first of the year, I am thinking about offering knitting and crocheting lessons—if you or someone you know is interested—let me know!

November 15, 2011 December Themed Colorways are Updated

The shop has been updated with ther December Themed Colorways and here they are:

Retro Aluminum Christmas Tree 3-Stripes

 

 

 

You’re a Mean One…6 Stripe

 

 

 

Victorian Christmas

 

 

 

Sugar Plum

 

 

 

 

 

 

December Themed Colorways are available for pre-order beginning November 15, 2011. Pre-order will begin shipping November 28, 2011. Orders paid for by November 30, 2011 will receive a 5% discount plus you may use any other coupon codes.  December Themed yarns will be available through December 31, 2011 and then will no longer be available in the shop.

Enjoy!

November 13, 2011 New Colorways

Today I updated the shop with three new colorways:

 

Aquamarine

 

Honey Bear

 

Tree Bark

 

 

We also added Stitch Markers:

 

 

 

 

Remember to watch for the December/Holiday update on November 15th!  There will be four new colorways!

October 24, 2011 Design the Colorway Contest

Each month we will be dyeing up “special” colorways in self-striping sock, fingering weight and lace weight.

For November our “special” colorways are:

Grade-School Turkey

and

 

Autumn Gradiant

 

December is coming (in a month and a half—I know-I don’t really want to be reminded, either) and we do not have any “special” colorways chosen.

 

Here is your chance to design a colorway for either/both a self-striping yarn and fingering/lace weight yarn. Post your ideas in the Desert Vista Dyeworks Ravelry Group or leave a comment on this blog of your ideas of what you would like so see in a December themed selk-striping or Gradiant yarn.

 

Go Crazy!  Be Original! (We don’t want to borrow other’s creativity!)

 

If you colorway is chosen (by our illustrious panel of judges-myself and my two daughters…) you will receive that skein a yarn FREE!

 

December’s contest will end at midnight on November 10th. The colorway will be available for pre-order beginning November 15th. With an approximate shipping date of November 28th.

 

I can’t wait to see all of you creativity!

October 21, 2011 Bats and Skulls, Oh My!

The shop has been crazy busy with the support of two podcasters! A big thankyou to Steve at Dramaticknits and Diane at Knitabulls! They have been so supportive as I began this journey into the world of hand-dyed yarn!

I finished the second project for my Halloween Knitting:

 

Dancing Batty in Witch’s Revenge

 

And am working on these for my eldest daughter….

 

Day of the Dead Mittens Front

Day of the Dead Mittens Back

They are knit with Desert Vista Dyeworks 3 Stripe Sock Yarn in Hot Pink and Solid Charcoal Mono Gradiant.

October 14, 2011 new Yarn Colorway-Grade-School Turkey

There is a new colorway announcement today, but first—-I had to show you this:

Chloe

 

Remember when you were in grade school and you made turkeys out of construction paper?  Here is a colorway for you!

 

Grade-School Turkey

This is a 4 Stripe Self-Striping Sock yarn in Brown, Yellow, Orange and Red.

 

 

 

 Grade-School Turkey is available as a Pre-Order with orders beginning to ship on November 1st.

Gobble!  Gobble!

October 8, 2011 Halloween Knitting Part 1-Finished

Neon Halloween Socks

The Neon Halloween Socks are finished!

 

It has finally cooled off enough this week to begin thinking about wearing my crazy hand-knit socks, again!

 

The shop has been incredibly busy and I am having so much fun dyeing one skein of yarn after another! 

 

Working on a new colorway for November…hopefully I will be able to share it within the next couple of days!