You see, I've been doing a studio tidy this past week. I really haven't touched things since getting home from the Tucson/Sedalia trip, aside from shoving piles back and forth to make a tiny space to work in. I hadn't even unpacked some of the things I had purchased on that trip! But now that things have slowed down, I was beginning to find the climbing over boxes and shoving of piles annoying, so it was time to tidy.
The job is not quite done--there are still all the circular needles to sort and put away, and a pile of UFOs to frog and store, and one more bin of odd balls that have no home--but the studio is a viable work space again. But now, as I sit in my comfy spinning chair, I look around and can't help but notice an alarming trend.
I've got the blues.
The blues are waiting to be spun...
...in a variety of painted tops and rovings.
The blues are spun and awaiting knitting...
...in the form of 780 yards of Merino/yak/silk 3-ply, about 1600 ypp/20 wpi.
The blues are freshly dyed...
...in the form of the Paco-vicuna I posted last week, dyed rather spontaneously with a random (and, therefore, unrepeatable-d'oh!) mix of Ciba cobalt and Telana turquoise dyes.
More blues await knitting...
...in the form of handpainted yarns lined up for commission pieces.
The blues are even lurking in other yarns...
...like this 110 yards of bulky corespun made from a batt named "Calistoga" blended by Sayra at Atomic Blue. Sure, it's mostly greens, but that blue is there. Mocking me.
The blues are even evident in the UFO pile...
So, am I in a rut? Or am I, like Picasso, just going through a Blue Period?
In any event, it's January, and I have the blues. Lots and lots of blues!
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