I posted the prizes off to the winners of the Giveaway today and, before I slipped them into the envelopes, I just couldn’t resist taking a few pictures just so I could share them with you.
The two runners-up got 2oz each of this BFL fiber.
When I dyed this, I was going for a fiber version of Plumberry, the colourway of the newest yarn in the shop*. But, although I mixed the dyes up correctly, I did the dyeing in slightly the wrong order and the blue took on an amazing silver-grey tint. It doesn’t look like Plumberry to me but, let me tell you, it is really quite stunning! I might dye more like this, but I am undecided as to whether it deserves its own name, because dyeing is a dynamic process — even if I gave it a new name and tried to dye it this way again, it might come out of the dyepot with more blue and looking more like the original Plumberry… Hmmmm… Maybe the nature of Plumberry will be that it’s sometimes got this grey, sometimes got more blue. We’ll have to see.
Anyway, I do hope the runners up enjoy the lovely colours of their new fiber!
*You never saw the Plumberry yarn? That’s because both skeins sold in two hours! But I’ve dyed some more that will go in later this week.
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And for our winner, I’ve chosen a skein of Garden In Spring sock yarn. This is the first colourway I ever dyed for the shop and it is absolutely one of my favourites. It’s so bright and cheerful and just so darned happy, and I think that’s the very essence of how winning a giveaway ought to make a person feel!
Congratulations again to the winners, and I hope you enjoy using your yarn and fiber! And to everyone else, there will be more giveaways in the future, so keep your eyes open for those.
Ooh! I can’t wait to try my hand at drp spindling with the “Silver” Plumberry roving! Thanks again sooo much!