Wednesday
Jan202010
I want to give you this.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:35PM
So today, I was just
You know, like every other day. Sittin' around. Doing nothing except rocking in the ol' rocking chair and admiring the view.
And I thought to myself, "Self, you oughtta give away a skein of yarn."
And then I answered myself.
I said, "Self, you are correct. I shall see to it at once."
I love it when I listen to myself.
This skein is not just any old skein. It has magic in it, old magic. Creative magic. The magic of Creativity.
Sometimes the mood strikes me to make something new and different. I often have to ignore my friend Creativity, much to her chagrin.
But sometimes I can't ignore her. She begs and stamps her foot and sticks out her lower lip. She beckons, and I am helpless but to follow.
This is a one of a kind colorway. It is part of a small dye lot, and can never, ever be recreated. I didn't write down the recipe, I didn't follow my usual methods, I just dumped and mixed and tasted until it was right.
Here's what I'm thinking. Sometimes, I will let Creativity have her way. I will make special colorways that have never been seen before and will never be seen again. Colorways like this:
And once in a while, I'll put this never-to-be-seen-again colorways up for sale, just for fun.
This will let me be creative and will let you get something extra special.
I already have about 25 special creative skeins ready to rock. Instock and ready to rock, just the way they should be.
But I want to have a name for these special stockings, so I can say, "Super Duper Creative Yarn Stocking Tomorrow!" or, "Wednesday will be a Special Spectacular Skein Stocking!"
This is where you and the giveaway meet. If you can give me a name that I like for these stockings, I will give you this skein of yarn:
It's Adorn Sock. It will never be seen again after this Awesomely Amazing -- or whatever I end up calling it -- stocking that I'll have in the near future.
Here are some ideas that I have so far:
Serendipity Skeins
Batch of the Day
Yarn du jour
Something along these lines. You leave a comment with a suggestion. If I pick yours, I'll send you the yarn.
To clarify, this isn't a suggestion for the name of the colorway, you're suggesting a name for the ongoing series of stockings I have planned with one of a kind colorways.
I will take suggestions until 7:30 pm Eastern tomorrow, and will choose something tomorrow evening. Feel free to enter as many times as you like, I need all the help I can get.
Help! Creativity will wait for no woman!
You know, like every other day. Sittin' around. Doing nothing except rocking in the ol' rocking chair and admiring the view.
And I thought to myself, "Self, you oughtta give away a skein of yarn."
And then I answered myself.
I said, "Self, you are correct. I shall see to it at once."
I love it when I listen to myself.
This skein is not just any old skein. It has magic in it, old magic. Creative magic. The magic of Creativity.
Sometimes the mood strikes me to make something new and different. I often have to ignore my friend Creativity, much to her chagrin.
But sometimes I can't ignore her. She begs and stamps her foot and sticks out her lower lip. She beckons, and I am helpless but to follow.
This is a one of a kind colorway. It is part of a small dye lot, and can never, ever be recreated. I didn't write down the recipe, I didn't follow my usual methods, I just dumped and mixed and tasted until it was right.
Here's what I'm thinking. Sometimes, I will let Creativity have her way. I will make special colorways that have never been seen before and will never be seen again. Colorways like this:
And once in a while, I'll put this never-to-be-seen-again colorways up for sale, just for fun.
This will let me be creative and will let you get something extra special.
I already have about 25 special creative skeins ready to rock. Instock and ready to rock, just the way they should be.
But I want to have a name for these special stockings, so I can say, "Super Duper Creative Yarn Stocking Tomorrow!" or, "Wednesday will be a Special Spectacular Skein Stocking!"
This is where you and the giveaway meet. If you can give me a name that I like for these stockings, I will give you this skein of yarn:
It's Adorn Sock. It will never be seen again after this Awesomely Amazing -- or whatever I end up calling it -- stocking that I'll have in the near future.
Here are some ideas that I have so far:
Serendipity Skeins
Batch of the Day
Yarn du jour
Something along these lines. You leave a comment with a suggestion. If I pick yours, I'll send you the yarn.
To clarify, this isn't a suggestion for the name of the colorway, you're suggesting a name for the ongoing series of stockings I have planned with one of a kind colorways.
I will take suggestions until 7:30 pm Eastern tomorrow, and will choose something tomorrow evening. Feel free to enter as many times as you like, I need all the help I can get.
Help! Creativity will wait for no woman!
Reader Comments (171)
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Le sourire de la Muse ( Muse's Smile)
Du rififi dans les pelotes ( I can't translate... Mess up in the skeins, maybe...)
Ode to Uniqueness
Yarn Anomaly
Yarnomaly
Freak of Nature
Whim of my Fancy
Hen's Teeth Day (very rare)
Angel Visits (few and far between)
Selkie Skeins
Musings of the Yarnista
Riffing here. If I repeated something from above, sorry. I didn't read all the comments.)
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Singularities
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The Singular Collection
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The Bellwether Collection
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Prodigious Pigments
Matchless Marvels
Matchless Miracles
The Sans Pareil Collection
Sole Selections (you get the play on words with sole as unique and as a foot part, but this only is good for the sock-yarn ones)
Powldoody (it means "oyster" but I like the way it sounds and oysters are unique and can hold a treasure)
The Baggywrinkle Collection (evidently a baggywrinkle is a ball of yarn)
Handsome Hanks
The Twisted Twit Collection
I like adding "The" and "Collection" to it, to indicate that it's a one-off colorway, but an ongoing thing, too.
Happy name-picking!
-A
Roll of the Dye?
Casual Colorways?
Colorway Canapés?
Lugh's(Brigid's) Feile Abhras
Lugh's(Brigid's) Yarn Festival
TIG's Feile Abhras
TIG's Yarn Festival
Unique musings
Feile=festival
abhras=yarn
Lugh=celtic god who was master of arts
Bridgid=celtic goddess of poetry/healing and smithcraft
They are beautiful yarns
Sorry about the multiple names, they didn't seem to have posted. And I have a new one: Dagda's Delights?
Pièce unique (one-of-a-kind in french :-))
One night dream
One night brand
Solitary candy
If the suggestions sound bizarre it's because english is not my first language ;-)
Daniela
Whimsical One-Offs!
Or maybe:
- Signature Snippets
- Snippets of Serendipity
Supercolorfragilisticexpialidocious! Just seems that would underscore the spectacularly uniqueness of these super colorways! :) I'm sure Mary Poppins wouldn't mind at all!
Knitters must be some of the most creative people on the planet - these suggestions were wonderful! I can't think of anything better, but I think these entries were really great:
Roll of the dye
Adopt-a-skein
Infrequent Fibers
Yarniques
Once in a dye-time
Yarndoodles
I can't wait to see what it will be!
I think something with a buried treasure theme...think of the possibilities. Treasure trove, pirate treasure, treasure cave, treasure map. It seems like you could riff on it for eons and never run out. It also implies sort of a secret private aspect to it...only a select group knows about or ever finds buried treasures, the rest of the world goes blithely on never suspecting the wonder beneath their feet.
I have two suggestions:
1. "Sui Generis" stock update - Sui Generis is latin and means one of a kind, of it's own genus/class and unique. All of your yarns fit into this, but these are extra special on their own, so if fits really well. See wikipedia for more.
2. "Yarnista's Fancies" - as everyone knows, diamonds aren't really rare, but diamond fancies are - they are the strongly coloured ones. They come in a variety of colours too - yellow, green, blue, orange, brown, purple, grey, black, milky white, pink, red. So you could call this Yarnista's Fancies. Check for more info here: http://www.curiousnotions.com/gemstones/ down the bottom under diamonds, or http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/students/flax/fancy.htm for pics and far more info.
"You Get What You Get"
Yarnista's Gems
I agree with your mama!
But I gotta try, here are mine:
Uniquities
Uniquiskeins
and ... my personal favorite:
Dyepot Delights
One More Hank
Sharon's Dye of the day
Unraveled Days
Special Extras (tomorrow is Special Extra day)
One Skein Wonders. (a play on one hit wonders?)
I dye for you.