Let's just pretend the obligitory "Gee It's been a long time..." stuff is right here. I've been busy. It's a good thing.
For the last few weeks (since I finished the last items from my September update) I've been spending all my work time with my new dye. The old dye is gone. Well, strictly speaking there's still *lots* but not enough to mix each color for any one colorway anymore. There's been work on new colorways and getting the formulas in the new dye for old colorways. This is not exactly fun, but it's not a bad time. It makes me crazy to think how many more I need to do. I just want to dye yarn. It's my destiny!

My sweet Chi continues to gain health and confidence. He gets smooched between each colorway or skein dyed. I love him so much! It's been too long since I've had a pet. He has a
thing about white boards. So do I, but I don't drag them around and try to eat the corners off or curl up to sleep with them. I just use them for notes. Chi thinks this is lame and a total waste of a white board. We are learning to share. (I also don't make a tent for my litterbox/toilet with whiteboards, but that one I might try some time) He also likes dye (me too, me too!) but he only likes the magenta-ish colors. He likes to pour them on the floor and run thru them and distribute foot prints everywhere. What a charmer! (Dye is safe! He would have to breath it to get hurt and he shows no signs of that!) He is so hard to photograph. He is either scampering about or asleep in dim lighting conditions. He is chilling here with "the boy." Toby gets him more relaxed and more excited than I do. I love that he has a different vibe/relationship with each of us.

Pictured here is my lovely assistant Hazel. She washes bottles for me. This is a huge job when I spend all day sampling one color after another making small changes each time. I'm looking forward to football season ending (don't tell my husband) so my son can come back to work. He ties knots on all the free samples I send out and puts all the yarn/roving info stickers on bands and tags, but not during football. My husband does the books and taxes. Thank all the powers that be! I think my family is more proud and happy about our small business than I am. They are so sweet! I do not lack for support, ever!
I really need a new knitting project. I'm at difficult points in all my current projects. And I mostly want to knit to relax, so this is icky. So I want something that I am less likely to mess up and that has little shaping or other tricky bits. I also can't wait to use the bag that Keri of
3amEnchantments sent me! I think I'll go with a ginourmous scarf that can just wrap and pile all around my neck and shoulders. I'm getting cold here!
I'll close with a yarn photo: