I fell down the rabbit hole. Hard. Like, I just couldn't stop when I placed my most recent order of Qing Fibres a few months ago. Now the boxes have started to trickle in and photographing each colorway is like opening presents on Christmas morning. Each is a stunning surprise.
I mean, I just can't get over how amazing each color is.
Right now I have restocks of Merino Singles and Super Soft Sock (merino/cashmere/nylon). With Sock and Donegal Tweed Sock to follow soon, if the Customs Gods look favorably on us.
Now, when you look at all these colors, you might notice something. And you might say, "Allison, why OH SO MANY speckles and multicolors, and barely any solids?" Well, when someone like Layla Qing is so imaginative and does so many amazingly stupendous hand painted skeins, I find it hard to order solids. There's only so much room in my shop, and when a particular dyer does a particular thing so well, that's what I gravitate to. I mean, you can get dozens of solids from other dyers, but I guess if I'm going to the trouble and expense of importing good from the UK, I want to focus on what really sets that dyer apart from others, and in this case, it's the amazing array of color you can find on just one skein.
I think now's a good time to point out that I take all these photos myself. There are several reasons for this. 1) the dyer provides photos but they might from a dyelot from four years ago. And as you can see from the two photos below of Elderwood (top one from this batch, bottom from last year), each batch looks different. 2) if I were purchasing yarn online, and trying to make the right combo or fade, I'd be pretty disappointed if I was hoping for the skeins in the top pic, but got skeins like the bottom pic. 3) If I was spending over $30 a skein on yarn, plus tax and shipping, I would want to be happy with my purchase. 4) I feel good doing it this way.
I hope that you see something in this most recent batch that really speaks to you. Or shouts at you. Something to really make you think outside your normal crayon box of colors, or one of your favorite colors that just has something unique about it that makes you swoon. I'll be over here constantly checking my tracking to see when the rest of this is going to arrive so I can go even further down the rabbit hole.
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