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Wednesday
Jan202010

I want to give you this.

So today, I was just

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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And once in a while, I'll put this never-to-be-seen-again colorways up for sale, just for fun.

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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:

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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)

Once in a Blue Moon

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterIngrid

Here today, gone tomorrow.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterIngrid

The first thing I thought of when I saw that color was the musical Cabaret! And to that end...

Sally Bowles Soles

Long Live Liza!

Fosse, Fosse, Fosse!

Perfectly Marvelous Piggies

And then I couldn't get the image of (or depictions of) the irish goddess Morrigan whose fierocity and ferocious-ness is legendary... you don't mess with the Morrigan!

Morrigans Magenta Magic

Merely Morrigan

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJennifer Curran

Oddball Offerings
Strange Goods
Lightning Strikes
Black Market Specials
Peachy-Keen Skeins

Yeah, I got nothin'. Gorgeous yarn, though. :)

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSarah

Fleeting skeins
Here today, gone tomorrow (HTGT)
"For a spell" skeins
Here-for-a-spell skeins
Occasionals
Creativities
Yarniquities
Charms
Fleeting charms
Serendipidus skeins
"On a whim" skeins
Whimsy yarns

LOVE the green/brown!!!!

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterColleen Cameron

Fancy Feat
A Feat for feet!
Fabulous Feat

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAudrey

Hmmm.....beautiful color...

"Carpè Yarn"
"Building Castles in the Air"
"Muse Syndrome"
"Yarn Reverie"
"From Dreams to Yarn"

or something! :-D

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPaige

U(knit)ique

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterNancy

Once upon a dyeing

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMorgan

Colour Me Once

I really really need that teal-blue one. Please send me a message with what I must sacrifice and when to get it.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLisa

Tip towing through the shamrock.
Luck of the Irish girls'
Whimsy
End of the rainbow
Bliss
Infatuation
Twitterpated
Irish luck
Four leaf clover
Fourth leaf

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAngela

Pigmentation Pangs
Fiber Fantasies
To DYE for!

Can't wait to see these unique colorways!

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMaureen

Drool!
I think they should be called Good Kharma. That's how they were created and it what the recipient will have!

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterjudy

I like Précieuses Laines (precious yarn in French)
Delactable Yarns also :)

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPaty

Yarnista's Serendipitous Treasures
Gaelic Treasures

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