** This listing is for DYED TO ORDER yarn. All yarn will be dyed to order. Processing time is approximately 3-4 weeks from order date, although it may be sooner! ** Hand dyed rainbow yarn! This colorway is a fabulous variegated soft rainbow, affectionately named after the tiny 6'x6' snowcone shack I worked at in high school, making many delicious rainbow treats! Yarn Base information: Mohair Lace: 72% Kid Mohair 28% Mulberry Silk. 50g 459yd/420m Nylon Sock: 4 ply 75% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool 25% Recycled Nylon. 100g 437yd/400m Silk Sock: 90% Superwash Merino Wool 10% Mulberry Silk. 100g 463yd/423m BFL Tweed Sock: 85% Superwash British Bluefaced Leicester Wool 15% Donegal Nep (polyamide.) 100g 438yd/400m NSW Sock: 100% Non-superwash Merino Wool. 100g 436yd/400m Classic Sport: 3 ply 100% Fine Superwash Merino Wool. 100g 328yd/300m Classic DK: 4 ply 100% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool. 100g 246yd/225m Highland DK: 100% Non-superwash Peruvian Highland Wool. 100g 246yd/225m Classic Worsted: 4 ply 100% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool. 100g 219yd/200m Highland Worsted: 100% Non-superwash Peruvian Highland Wool. 100g 218yd/200m Classic Bulky: 2 ply 100% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool. 100g 109yd/100m This yarn is hand dyed and therefore will have slight variations from skein to skein. While I do my best to achieve uniformity, each skein is unique, and that's part of the fun. Skeins made from superwash wool (including Nylon Sock, Silk Sock, BFL Tweed Sock, Classic Sport, Classic DK, Classic Worsted and Classic Bulky) can be machine washed on cold, but I HIGHLY recommend washing by hand. Even the nicest machines can thrash hand-knits! If you do choose to machine wash, use a garment bag and wash on the gentlest and coldest cycle your machine offers. Lay flat to dry. Mohair Lace, NSW Sock, Highland DK and Highland Worsted CAN NOT be machine washed! Please note that non-superwash yarn does not take speckles as clearly. Speckled colorways will appear more "blown out" than they do on superwash yarn. I do my best to rinse each skein thoroughly to avoid any colors bleeding, but you may notice slight bleeding after the first wash. Dark colors are not recommended for colorwork projects. From a smoke-free, pet-free home. I do not accept returns or exchanges, but please contact me with any questions or concerns. ** Any in stock items purchased together with a preorder item will be shipped together when the dyed-to-order items are ready. If you would like an in stock item to ship sooner, please purchase it in a separate transaction! **
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Initially I came over to post woah is me & i feel so blah. But after looking at my flickr account I realized there is a story to tell and a moment to reflect on. So, pardon me while I wax nostalgic. :) Growing up was silly, serious business in my family. I came from a good sized family who were cut from the same mold and reveled in time spent together in all seasons. Summers by the pool and the white waffle lawn furniture sticky from all the watermelon and red kool-aid. Falls spent picking the garden together till dusk. Winters spent cutting wood for fireplaces in which we snuggled around. Spring was for planting and running through the fresh cut grass. For making crowns from monkey grass and dandelions and making mud pies. But when I was small a calling led my family from my red Georgia mud roots to a sweepy, moss covered, soulish New Orleans. Where it was hot and humid when it was hot. Where it was wet and cold when it was cold. Where it could flood in the morning and make you swelter in the heat by lunch. It's in this beautiful town where I climed oak trees like jungle gyms, learned to drive a boat and eat shrimp and crawfish the right way. New Orleans is where I really had my childhood. Summers were still spent weeks at a time with my family in Georgia. I always called Georgia home, but now reflecting back, New Orleans holds such a sweet spot in my spirit. When you're a kid you tend think everyone has money and there is nothing but time to stop you from doing something spectacular. My parents were so creative to keep us busy without spending much money! We fed bread to seagulls at the docks on Lake Ponchartrain and had picnics of Rally's hamburgers and french fries. We would park on stormy days on a concrete island type parking lot and let the waves crash over our anceint Ford van. We went to City park and played on the mossy oak trees and watched the ducks paddle through the lilly pads. We rode the fairy across the mighty Mississippi and I cried because my dad told me that fairies weren't real. I was so confused that we were going to ride a fairy, when they weren't real. We rode our bikes to school every morning. In fact, we rode our bikes everywhere. It's strange how you don't realize until you're older the things that were really special to you as a child. Those bike rides were my childhood. We would ride to the Winn-Dixie and get necessities. We would ride the leeve to the Kenner Peir. We would ride through the ancient oaks in Harahan. We even rode our bikes to downtown New Orleans, well almost. We got a few miles away and decided to turn around.. it was a long bike ride from home! One of the best places we would ride bikes to was Droopy's Snow Ball Stand or Ro-bears Snow Ball Stand. Both of which were right next to and across the street from my beautiful elementary school. I can't begin to tell you the combinations of flavors you can try on a snow ball, and if you've never had one, then you are truly missing out on a cup of Heaven. Anything from Orange Dream stuffed with Ice Cream in the middle or my brother's favorite Chocolate with Condensed milk on top! Or Wedding Cake, Spearamint, Tiger Lilly, Cotton Candy, Fuzzy Navel, or Pina Colada! There are so many different flavors, but one thing I know for a fact is this: If you ever have a sno-ball, you will love them for the rest of your life. Last week on our anniversary trip we rode bikes and got a snow ball. Honestly, it was the best vacation I've had... and that's because it touched a part of my soul that still believes in fairys and that my daddy is superman. Something that reminds you of who you are and where you come from. Something that eases the woahs of this life and brings joy back to tired eyes. I wish I had a bike and a sno ball machine, life would be so much more grand. :) (Reading this article while searching for pictures of Droopy's & Ro-bears made me cry a little. Sno-balls must be a part of growing up in New Orleans, as even the author of this article gets a bit poetic.) What parts of your childhood make you wax poetic?
