I had the rare opportunity yesterday of having a couple of hours all to myself when J was still at work and Isola with her grandmother. How did I spend it? Shopping with girlfriends? Sweating at the gym? Cleaning out the closets? No, I sat in front of my laptop browsing for yarn. And boy did I find some.
Don't ask me how I did it but in some way I ended up at a blog called "the Yarnista", run by the founder of
Three Irish Girls, a company that specializes in hand dyeing yarn. I think I spent over an hour reading posts about how her business started, and the challenges she met as both an entrepreneur, a working mother of two (with a third on the way) and with a husband that worked a lot. She literally got up in the middle of the night (2 am!) and spent the night dyeing yarn in her basement before she got her kids to school and then attended her ordinary job as a teacher. In the afternoon she continued working with her business, answering emails, shipping orders at the same time as she took care of the kids and house. Imagine doing that every night and day of every week! (Ok, she got to sleep until 5 am at the weekends.) How on earth did she survive? I think that it must have been pure obsession that kept her going. She must have caught a serious case of the yarn flu. Or got bitten by the yarn bug.
But when you see the yarn she makes, you'll understand why it was all worth it. This is the most beautiful yarn I have ever seen. And I haven't even seen it live. What a dream to work with a yarn like this! It's too beautiful to knit with. I would keep it in the skein, admire it, and maybe cuddle with it once in while! I just let these pictures speak for themselves, they are all from her blog,
the Yarnista. If you like colorful yarn at all, you need to visit this blog.
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| Nora |
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| Bayfield Apple |
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| Skyline Parkway |
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| Observation Hill |
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| Pansy |
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| Lovestruck |
Feel like knitting now??
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