We has winnerz!

Our winning color way entry was from Sharon Rose, for her description of a fantastic Johnny Cash color way. I just loved the idea of the slashes of Junes lipstick in an otherwise dark yarn. It’s just so….Johnny Cash! The descriptions for Ring of Fire and Walk the Line were fantastic too. She’s been notified by email already but I wanted to publicly congratulate her as well here. Sharon has decided to keep herself warm with my Tsunami wool from my shop but I have a feeling we’ll be seeing her color way description in an upcoming month of the Rock Your Socks Off club.

The winner in the random drawing was Turtle. She will win a set of stitch markers and 20% off anything in my Etsy store. 

We didn’t have any takers on the third prize category yet,though that will be ongoing, so if you get someone to sign up for the club make sure they email me at daniella@danido.com and let me know that a) they are for sure going to be apart of the club starting March and that b) you convinced them to join. If you get someone to sign up I will send you an item from my ridiculously large stash. I have 8 cones of sock yarn sitting on my formal dining room table because I don’t have room anywhere in my craft room to put them. My bedroom has become over run with spinning supplies because I don’t have room in the craft room. I need to make room in the craft room.

In other news: I dyed the first half of my commissioned order for the Phat Fiber store and I’m very excited about them. I don’t want to show pictures of them yet, but I can say that I love them all and don’t want to give them up. As soon as my yarn meter comes I’ll be breaking up the cones into hanks and will be able to dye the second half of the order for them and then they’ll be on their way to Jess to put up in the shop!

I also tried my hand at dying roving yesterday.

This is some merino roving that I bought a while ago from Wooly Wonders here in Las Vegas before I even knew  how to spin. It was an undyed roving, and it just sat around for the last few months until I finally decided it was time to make it something I’d actually spin up. I’m waiting for it to dry because now I really want to spin this up!

This is a little tiny bit broken off from the larger coil of roving that I dyed first before I did the whole thing:

I just wanted to see how the different colors looked on the roving, and I decided I liked the blues and greens best. This horrible little braid will probably be gifted to someone at some point even though Mike says he loves it.

Also I finished BunBun v.2 (a.k.a Bunneh!)

You may remember part of Bunneh from the last Loud and Mouthy vlog. (We’ll have a new vlog up soon, Laura has finished her blanket finally!)

I’d also like to formally introduce a new collaboration between Christina Marie and I. It’s called Mouthy Maries and I will warn you now it is the brain dump for both Christina and I’s liberal, feminist ranting. If you’re not into that sort of thing, I strongly encourage you to just keep staring at Bunneh because that is a happy place and Mouthy Maries is not a happy place.

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