Photo credit: Valeriano Della Longo, used with Creative Commons Attribution license.
So much better than a souvenir t-shirt….
I’m hopping on a plane bound for sunny Aruba for a real live vacation!* And I would love to bring back seashells and carved coconuts for everyone, but my suitcase is only so big, right?
So to share some fun while I’m away, I’m stocking up the KSD shop full of cheap, lovely yarn for you!
What’s on SALE?
I am overstocked on some beautiful yarns that are lonely one-skeiners, Odd Ducks (one-of-a-kind microbatches), discontinued colors and fibers, and a few random things just for the heck of it. I’m cleaning out these little gems by marking them down to make room for new items coming this fall, and to build up the KSD travel fund for upcoming shows. (note- I just found a hidden, unmarked box of amazing odd duck merino fine skeins, so y’all totally scored on that!)
All orders will ship when I return to the studio, Friday and Saturday next week.
Cheers and I’ll see you when I get back (probably slightly sunburnt)!
Mercedes
*I will be incommunicado (no internet! no email! no phone! yikes!) for about a week. If there are any snags on your order, I will clean it up and make it all better once I’m back in Alabama.
Photo, Two Doors, Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark
And another one (or more) opens!
Yesterday, I turned down my first knitwear design job.
It was the first time, in a long time, that I was asked to make enough significant changes to my original idea that it would have sent the design on a very un-Mercedes path. But hooray for clear, calm communication, I was able to express my concerns and the client and I parted ways amicably, with possibilities for future projects together (SO much better than the scenarios in my head!). I trusted my gut, and I think that was the best advice I could have given my self. I have many, many more thoughts on the subject of staying true to your thing, and will be writing more in coming weeks. I take being yourself very, very seriously. Except when I sing kindergarten-esque silly songs about it.
One of the nice things about being a craft floozie, is that I tend to have eleventy-three irons in the fire at any given moment*. So as soon as I hung up the phone and took a deep sigh of relief, my inbox provided my creative self with another fun opportunity, this time for KSD!
I’m happy to announce that I will be dyeing a custom Kitchen Sink Dyeworks colorway for Shannon Okey’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo readalong + knitalong on Ravelry! I’ll be dyeing the colorway for Steig Larsson’s second book in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire. I’m super-excited, especially as these books were on my beach reading list for my vacation next week**!
Join in on the knitalong on Ravelry.
Books, yarn, socks, knitting?
This is going to be awesome!
*Because, really, why have one career, when you can have a circus act by juggling four or five?
**Other best piece of advice? Take a freakin’ vacation!
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