The Polar Bear Ate My Homework.

Recently, a very nice lady ordered some yarn.  Thrilled to oblige, I wound her a custom size whack o’ yarn in the 1200 yd range for a shawl, and dyed it in the still delightful to dye, ‘Ice Bear’ colorway.  (I am still so enamoured with this colorway that I intend to paint a blanket warp for the loom, dig out the silk roving, and set aside some of the 22lbs of superwash BFL roving that came in the mail the other day). 

Anyways, I thought it turned out nicely.

Now, long ago when the original idea of ‘Polar Bear in an Ice Storm’ colorway came to mind, it was a white skein, undyed, and was a standing joke around here.  Gradually, we began envisioning a whole line of socks designed around this theme, with one being the expected white skein with yellow ‘sprinkled’ on it…. lovingly named ‘Polar Bear was Here’.  I mention this for a reason, and as I appreciate some good irony in my life now and again, had to share it with you.

Do you see the *&$*#yellow dots?  I have a suspicion that a recent dye job involving ‘Juanna Lei’ is partially to blame in contaminating a very large skein of yarn I was immensely proud of and considering filching.  I suppose this is where both the dye gods AND the polar bear have the last laugh, while I go skein off a new 1200 yard whack o’ yarn and send a note to the customer about why my homework isn’t done.