You may stalk your mailman.

Nora’s Yarn Club, shipment #1 shipped yesterday.  Complete with decorated packages, the folks at the post office we usually visit were very proud of her.  So was I, she carried the bag of packages in from the car  

She dyed the skeins 2 at a time, as it gave her a larger ‘canvas’ to work with.  While we were working, she said we might have to send 2 skeins to each person so they’d have the whole picture.  I explained that maybe the 2 people would someday meet and both be wearing the socks made from that yarn – they would meet and their socks would match…. she interupted me and announced that they would then be best friends.   I love that of all the skeins of yarn she painted for this are different – even the 2 painted together are different from each other.  No two skeins are alike, each painted within the theme, kind of like snowflakes.  I admit to knitting a few rows on an existing project just to see how one of them would come together and it was like a bouquet of flowers. 

Georg might have gotten a head-start by taking her yarn home with her after helping out the other day… she’s using ‘Ambrosia’  (rav link) by Ann Budd:

Remember, no 2 skeins are alike and there were several colors involved for Nora to choose from.  Some skeins, she didn’t add much pink at all   Can’t wait to see all the different socks.

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I’ve taught other people to dye who’ve gone on to be very successful at dyeing yarns and fibers.  I’m always amazed at how different their work is – how each person is so creative and expresses it so differently.  Give 5 dyers 3 colors and tell them to dye a skein of yarn and stand back.  You’ll have 5 completely different and unique skeins of yarn – it’s all in the interpretation.  Each dyer’s style and personal tastes are reflected.  With enough experience (or yarn in your stash) with a particular dyer’s yarns, you can even recognize their work in a sea of unlabeled yarn – much like recognizing a painter or knowing the music is Mozart after just a minute of listening. 

 Nora’s work is unique and her own.  I’ve known it for some time now.  She does not dye yarn like I do.  Add to her own creative skills the uninhibited art-stylings of a 7 year old, and you get some unique things.  She doesn’t limit herself to yarn, either.  The other day, Eric bought a bouquet of fuschia tulips.  They were lovely, but beginning to fade.  While we were talking in the dining room, Nora was in the kitchen working on something.  Turned out to be the tulips.  They’d been studying ‘still life’ art at school.  To my knowledge, she’s not really familiar with Water Lilies or Lotus flowers but if you look closely, she’s got that new flower floating on the water.  

Who would have guessed what you could make with a medium of wilting tulip flowers?