Vince loves to give me a hard time about the amount of yarn that arrives here. In fact, he gives the mail ladies a hard time about bringing it and they don’t even want to deliver yarn to me on Saturday. It doesn’t matter what day of the week I order yarn, it seems to arrive on Saturday. I had two packages that USPS was saying would be delivered on Monday and nope .. they got delivered on Saturday. Can’t complain about that.
Vince would probably like to be serious when he complains about the yarn but I just laugh so he never pushes the issue too much but . . Saturday, there were FOUR packages of yarn that arrived. They were all small packages and fit in the mail box. I had already told the mail lady that we wouldn’t be here and she said she thought they would all fit in the box. So, when we drove up from being at a picnic, Vince pulled up to the mail box and I was thinking . . I’m going to be in trouble! 🙂
Sure enough, he opened the door and the box was stuffed full of packages. I’ll talk about them on my Friday report but one was from a new dyer, Raspberry Dyeworks. I had heard about her on the Grocery Girls’ podcast. I think they said she was 14 or 16 years old. Her yarns are gorgeous. They are dyed to order (I think) so it takes a couple of weeks to get them but well worth the wait.
The packaging was delightful.
Raspberry Dyeworks
It was such a pleasant surprise to open the shopping bag and see my yarn in such pretty, dainty bags. There were two pieces of hard candy in each bag and the tag is attached to the yarn with a safety pin type stitch marker.
Not only was the presentation great, but the yarn is amazing . . more amazing than it appears on her website.
Yarn
This one is “A Unicorn and a Rainbow Had a Baby”. The names of her yarn are so cute!
Yarn
This one is “Love is Everything, Everything”. I think this one will make some amazing socks!
If you need a “pick me up”, make a knitter smile gift, I highly recommend Raspberry Dyeworks.
wanda j says
Those are both the most beautiful yarns I’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine how she dyes them. When I was small girl 6 maybe here in Texas was a material making place. From start to finish. You could see it dyed ,strung on looms and then milled and then buy. I loved watching it being done Guess they are gone now ( it was when cotton was in style and we grew it here like crazy). Then when I was in Scotland this April I went to a tartan place . Same thing..Watch them make them from start to finish. I love love to see how they/she did this. Not that I would ever do just curious. Can’t wait to see the outcome.