Thursday night. It has been a long but good day. I have 4 plus oz. of delicious hand spun merino wool. Purple wildcat passion in a sport weight 2 ply. Yeah. It is so beautiful. I'm getting much, much more consistent and uniform. Relaxing and inspiring. The color magic happens in the plying. It goes from varied color change with handpainted roving to the complete deal.

On an other high note, my son in law, James has set up the laptop to be its own wifi signal so the ipod will work at home on the internet. Just brilliant. I'm going to miss him staying with us. But he and our daughter won't be to far away. This is good. Love them both.

Off the yellow brick road

Last weekend my Hubby and I went to TEXAS. Yes, don't mess with Texas. It is a large place with lots of variations in land and cultures. And did I say it was big. We put 2000 miles on the truck. That is a lot of truck time. We saw hours of highway.

They have a different (read, really really odd) road system there. Intersections are strange. Highways are layered. And stop signs are planted right in the middle of the roadways. All of these are road hazards for mid west drivers. The stop sign almost went home with us.

I enjoyed the trip and the time with Paul. Got lots of knitting done. Finished a big lace vest. The crochet edging needs help Melissa! I'm more than half way done with a just begun afghan. It is of cotton and feels great. Both of these pieces are out of the same yarn. Completely different looks.

Tomorrow I need to catch up on my dying. Blue, blue and purple and more blue. This is what I'm out of in Knitty Bits. I can hardly wait. Lovely shades of blue. My favorite color.

So much for random thoughts. I'll be dying tomorrow in the land of OZ.

Hi, I'm back

Hi this is Deb and I'm back after 18 months of vacation. That is an 18 month vacation from blogging. I've been at home with my normal life and nothing seemed to interesting. Then a revelation bounced into my head. Most people have normal lives, at least normal to them, and my life and loves might be interesting to them. So here we go.

I'm a hand painter of yarns and knitter. Color is a passion of mine. The many shades of each color are just fascinating and amazing to me. Each person sees and identifies color differently. I'll see a beautiful turquoise and call it blue. My mother sees the same color and says green. I'll see an iridescent sun set and see pink, someone else with me sees orange. We are all different and that is a good thing.

Another passion is the Creator of Color. God did a great thing when he made color and things colorful and gave us eyes to see them with. I'm grateful for this gift and for all the other gifts that I've been given.

I've been working on several projects as of late. Keeping fairly busy. Always there is yarn to paint and laundry to do.