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| 2009-06-29 14:18 |
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I realized I never posted pics of the latest batch of yarn. Two have already sold and four are on hold for people in the shop. I'm not sure I like this holding things business, but while I'm small fry I think it's OK. If it gets to be annoying, I'll stop doing it, however. Especially if lots of people hold and then don't come back by the end of a week and actually buy the yarn. I've already had one person back out of a held yarn, but it was less than 24hours so I'm not holding it against her.
Tigers B, Dutch Iris, Fire Nation, Heirloom Tomatoes, Mad Scientist, Purple Prose, Red Desert and Red Desert B, Scoop Shop, Sea Wrack, and Shell.
I really wish colors like Sea Wrack showed up as well in the pictures as it does in person. It's really something to behold in person. Of course, I was looking at my etsy shop from my father's computer the other day, and his monitor has the contrast bumped way up and some of the colors tweaked because his eyesight is getting not so great, and dude, my yarn looks BAD. XD And by BAD I mean BAD. XD Not at all true to anything. XD So I hope people who online yarn shop have their monitors calibrated. XD
In shop news, I decided I've done well enough in June to order more base yarn. I've got my fingers crossed for a snowballing effect, even if yarn sales are slower in the summer. Enough of a snowball over the summer and I'll have made a name for myself by the time the fall rolls around and people start buying yarn for winter knitting and gifts and such. At least that's what I hope. What I'd really like is for people to knit with it, and talk about it and show it off and create some feedback.
Incidentally, if anyone's curious, I'm pretty sure I'm using the same base yarn as Dream In Color. The funny thing is that the closest description I've found to my primary dye technique is veil dyeing, which is what DIC calls their process. Except that my colorways are very much unlike DIC's, because of the variability possible in these techniques. So that's a good thing, I'm not competing with them this way! XD
Another curious thing is how no one has asked me what my base yarn is, yet. Granted, not really a lot of sales yet, but that was one of the things people talked about in the base yarn thread I was reading. Apparently a lot of knitters want to know what the base yarn is so they can tell ahead of time if they like it or not (based on whether they've worked with it or not, of course). Meanwhile, a lot of dyers jealously guard that information. Me, I don't make a big noise about it because I've renamed the lines to fit my shop theme and if no one asks, I'm not going to spell it out. But if anyone asked, I'd tell them. I like the yarns I use and find they work up beautifully. Anyway, I just thought that was interesting. When it comes to other indie dyers, a lot of them can figure out what the bases are just from the description/appearance/fiber content/lines available.
Also, today is gorgeous. Simply gorgeous, and a wonderful antidote for something like 3 weeks of nearly perpetual rain. And the tree cutters are coming tomorrow to take down the dead tree! Which is nice as it's rather close to the house and near the driveway, so if parts of it start coming down, it'll make a mess.
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