Susan's Sunflower Super Saturday Sock/Shawl Stash Sale! - guess that makes it S8!

SOLD OUT
CHECK BACK NEXT SATURDAY.
THANK YOU!!!

SHIPPING TO US ONLY

Email me at susanpandorf@comcast.net and tell me which one(s) you want. I will invoice you through PayPal and ship them out to your hot little hands by midweek.

Yarn will be shipped first class mail in a padded envelope if the total weight is 13 oz. or less. If yarn weighs more than that, I will ship in flat rate priority mail box for $9.85. By next week you should be happy knitting!

All colors are true (on my monitor- can't account for yours.) We are a non smoking household, but I do have two cats. Yarn has been behind closed doors, so cat contact has been minimal. Yarn is unwound and untouched by human hands...Well, unless petting counts...

Each Saturday, I will post more yarn for your viewing pleasure and, hopefully, your buying frenzy.Please give my yarn a loving home and a productive future.

Ready?

Here we go again...

SOCK YARN (all fingering)

1)Piece of Vermont - fairy wings - $10
60% merino 30% bamboo 10% nylon - superwash - 434 yds
SOLD

2) mystery skein -look at that color - $10
fingering, no sheen so probably all wool - plenty of yardage for socks
SOLD

3) 2 skeins Colinette Jitterbug - summer berries - $10 each - will split
wool - machine wash - 267 m. each
SOLD

4) 3 skeins Hand Jive Nature's Palette fingering - autumn leaf - $5 each - will split
merino - 185 yds. each
SOLD

5) 2 skeins Claudia - pistachio - $10
merino - machine wash - 350 yds. total
SOLD

6) 4 skeins Claudia - blue terra cotta - $5 each - will split
merino - machine wash - 175 yds. each

7) 1 skein Cherry Tree Hill Supersock - misty moor - $10
superwash merino - machine wash - 420 yds.
SOLD

8) 5 skeins Koigu KPPPM - P620 - $5 each - will split
merino - hand wash - 175 yds. each
SOLD

9) 2 skeins Koigu KPPPM - P118 - $10
merino - hand wash - 175 yds. each
SOLD

10) Dream In Color Smooshy - Cloud Jungle - $10
merino superwash - 450 yds.
SOLD
11) Dream In Color Smooshy - Cloud Jungle - $10
(different dye lot - hard to believe this is the same color, isn't it?)
merino superwash - 450 yds.
SOLD

12) Dream In Color Smooshy - lipstick lava - $10
merino superwash - 450 yds.
SOLD

13) 1 skein Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock - sage - $5
80% superwash wool 20% nylon - 215 yds.
SOLD

14) Creatively Dyed Yarns sock - ocean - $10
70% wool 30% seacell - handwash - 365 yds.
SOLD

15) Fleece Artist Basic Merino - seashore - $10
machine wash - yardage listed as "sufficient for pair of socks"
SOLD

16) Fleece Artist Merino 2/6 - lily pond - $10
machine wash - 325 m.
SOLD

17) Schaefer Anne - $10
60% merino 25% mohair 15% nylon - 560 yds.
SOLD

18) Schaefer Anne - renata tebaldi - $10
60% merino 25% mohair 15% nylon - 560 yds.
SOLD

LACE YARN

19) Yarn All Over - moss - $20
silk - handwash - 1060 yds.
SOLD

20) Zen Yarn Garden hand spun - ambrosia - $15
merino - hand wash - 950 yds.
SOLD

21) Briar Rose Fibers Angel Face - hand dyed - one of a kind - $15
alpaca - hand wash - 2500 yds.
includes 2 beaded stitch markers
SOLD

22) Lisa Souza - periwinkle fade - $20
silk - 667 yds.
SOLD
23) 2 skeins Knitting Notions Classic Merino Lace - lichen - $5 each - will split
hand wash - 388 yds. each
SOLD

24) Knittery Merino 2-ply - mist - $10
handwash - no yardage given
SOLD

25) Claudia Silk Lace - pistachio - $20
handwash - 1100 yds.
SOLD

26) 2 skeins Fleece Artist Suri Blue - indian summer - $10 each - will split
50% suri alpaca 50% blue faced leicester - handwash - 600 m. each
SOLD

27) C*eye*ber Fiber - rainforest - $10
merino - 880 yds.
SOLD

28) Blue Moon Geisha - lunasea - $15
64% kidmo 20% mulberry silk 16% nylon - handwash - 995 yds.
SOLD

OTHER YARNS

29) 4 skeins Artyarns Regal Silk - color # 139 - $5 each - will split
dry clean only - 163 yds. each - 5 st to in.
SOLD

30) 2 skeins Live 2 Knit Mae - elven - $5 each - will split
bamboo - hand wash - 280 m. - 5 st to in.
SOLD

31) 9 skeins Louet Gems Sport - color 80 - $5 each - will split
merino - machine wash - 225 yds. each - 5/6 st to in.
SOLD

32) 5 skeins Artyarns Silk Rhapsody - color # 119 - $10 each - will split
50% silk 50% mohair - hand wash - 260 yds each - 4 1/2 st to in.
SOLD

33) 2 kits Fleece Artist Goldilocks Shawl - spring - $10 each
56% kid mohair 24% silk 20% nylon
SOLD

34) Handmaiden Angel/Rumple Scarf Kit - vintage - $10
150 m. silk rumple 200 m. angle hair mohair
SOLD

And now for a few really special one of a kind yarns...

These yarns are individually hand dyed in the Smokey Mountains by Francis Patrick, who has a stunning eye for richly saturated colors. Yarn base is 85% Wool/15% Mohair worsted weight. Yarn is gorgeous as is, but would also be great for felting.


35) 3 skeins Francis Patrick - wildflower - $15
handwash - 570 yds. total
SOLD

36) 2 skeins Francis Patrick - autumn - $10
handwash - 380 yds. total
SOLD

37) 2 skeins Francis Patrick - meadow - $10
handwash - 380 yds. total
SOLD
38) 2 skeins Francis Patrick - embers - $10
handwash - 380 yds. total
SOLD

39) 2 skeins Francis Patrick - carnival - $10
handwash - 380 yds. total
SOLD

What I Know For Sure

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
-Robert Benchley

The other day, as I was driving, I had much on my mind. A relationship I had thought to be solid turned out to be permeable.

And I thought to myself, "How much can we really count on anything these days?"

The U.S. economy continues to worsen. We are seeing things we never expected to see in our lifetimes and we quake inside at what might lie ahead.

I remember the day I learned my Mom had a brain tumor. The day I met my future husband. The day I drew up my first design. The day I learned I was to be a grandmother. The day my position with my former employer became untenable and I informed them of my intent to leave. The day my DH was laid off. The day he was laid off again. And a third time. The day I started my blog.

In none of those instances, did I know what was coming. I got up, made my coffee, and thought it was going to be an ordinary day, rather than a pivot point in my life.

So what do we know? Really?

Not much, it appears.

Oprah has a column at the back of her magazine, titled, "What Do I Know for Sure?"

I found myself earlier this week, en route to what had the potential to be a disturbing meeting, pondering the same question.

What do I know for sure?

I know that I am no longer going to ship S7 sock yarn to Canada (Only option for on line shipping is priority and that costs $24.65 - YIKES!) Sorry...

I know that I love my work.

I know that I am not in charge.

I know that most of what I think I know may well be a mirage or a misconception.

When it all comes right down to it, I don't know a lot.

But I do know this:

I love.

And I am loved.

And that's not a bad place to start from.

I'll figure out the rest as I go along...

S7 yarn tomorrow, including some lovely lace yarns along with all those sock goodies!

Thursday's Child

"Monday's child is fair of face.

Tuesday's child is full of grace.

Wednesday's child is full of woe.

Thursday's child has far to go.

Friday's child is loving and giving.

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay."

Monday, my long awaited international customs envelopes were delivered. I worked on the Zen Collection patterns (enough so I knew the required yardage for each) and ordered my yarn accordingly.

And both the patterns and the postman (thank you! thank you!) who delivered my customs forms are fair of face...

Tuesday I needed to take the day off (GASP!) in order to tend to urgent family needs.

As we all know, love is essential to the giving and accepting of grace. Grace is more than something God gives to us. It is something we pass on to all the lucky people in our lives.

But Wednesday wasn't full of woe; it was a day that flew by in writing up the pattern for Sprout and posting it to all the appropriate places.

Then, last night, the woe manifested itself. Once again, I had trouble accessing DH's printer. Seems my laptop was out of the loop.

So DH fixed the problem last night. And today - Thursday - I sat down to finally print my shipping labels for this week's shipment of sock yarn and, more importantly, the long delayed Canadian orders, and discovered...

The printer is out of ink.

Are you sure it isn't Wednesday?

Really sure?

I am officially on the record. I want my own printer. I am sick and tired of coping with a temperamental diva of a machine that finds my laptop not worthy of recognition.

Thursday's child has far to go...

Orders out tomorrow.

If I have to wrestle the damn printer to the ground and hold a loaded ink cartridge to its head.

OY!

Sprout

“ No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green that it wakes needs time to sprout. It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”
-Albert Schweitzer

SPROUT
because Spring just can't come soon enough...

a warm and lovely cabled scarf design
SIZE:
10 inches wide by 60 inches long


MATERIALS:
6 skeins (588 yds.) The Fibre Co. Organik
Color: Jungle
or other worsted weight yarn
Size 8(US) needles


GAUGE:
6 stitches = 1 inch


skill level: intermediate
written directions

Let those March winds blow. Let her come in like a lion.
You and I both know that warmer days await.
And while we wait, we'll wrap our necks in verdant green
and dream of spring...

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon

Family came first today. Sprout pattern tomorrow...

Tidbits

"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing."
- Terence

Clearly, this is NOT a problem for me.

I am not addicted to any one thing.

I am addicted to MANY things.

Here's a peek at some of them ( in release order)

SPROUT



The Fibre Co. Organik
color: Jungle
release date: tomorrow

BLUE GENTIAN


The Fibre Co. Canopy Fingering
color: Blue Crown
release date: March 3

EDDY
as in the water's motion, not the boy's name



The Fibre Co. Canopy Fingering
color: River Dolphin
release date: mid March

SUGAR SNAP
at least I didn't name it "world peas"

The Fibre Co. Canopy Fingering
color: Paw Paw
release date: mid/late March

CATCH A WAVE


The Fibre Co. Canopy Fingering
color: Macaw
release date: late March/early April

Gee...

Do you think I like this yarn, or what????

Not that I am hopelessly devoted to it or anything...

(Why do I hear Olivia Newton John singing in my head?)

I am also working on a scarf design for Knitty Noddy that is a bit of a departure for me.


No lace. Just texture. Wanted something to blend the colors. This slip stitch mock rib fits the bill. Tipping it to the diagonal gives it a fresh look.



And yes, it is that green. No enhancement necessary.

No name yet, but the yarn is called Cambyx. It's a silk camel blend.
color: Hemlock

And am looking ahead to summer, with the yarn sitting in the bottom tier of the basket. My Zen collection of organic cotton scarves.


Just look at those lovely sand-washed neutrals.... Perfect for hot summer days.

W-A-A-A-A-A-Y down the line...