Old dog, new tricks

So, it's true. You can teach an old dog new tricks; it takes some time but it can be done. I figured out how to make wrap around labels for my yarn skeins. Sounds trivial I'm sure but I'm pretty excited about it. I think it looks a little more polished. While the computer isn't a new thing for me you should know that I did make it through all four years of my college career using a Smith Corona. Some of you probably don't even know what a Smith Corona is. Computers were around they just weren't as prevalent as they are today. Anyhow, without further ado I present my "new" label.

Don't ask me why it took six months to figure this out but I'm pretty happy with the result. No more dangling tags that will bend and tear when I label the yarn and store it.

And here's a comparison shot. With the wrap around label I am able to use a larger logo...always important to be able to identify the product, right? I'm also still using the little hand cut out. It is just to the side of yarn info and shows the color of the skein peeking through, I like it. Until I become a graphic artist and can figure out how to superimpose a hand graphic on the label it'll have to work. I'm guessing it's here to stay.

In addition to my time on the computer working on labels I managed to steal a few hours in the yarn cave and produced some new colors. I'm excited about that. There is something about all of that naked yarn just sitting in front of you waiting to be colored. I've currently got a sale going until June 30th in my shop and will load the new colors when I return from visiting family in mid-July. Until then here's a peak at some new color.

Welcome to the blog world I guess...

This is a first for me, a blog. I've been tossing around the thought of starting one for some time now and here I am. I remember first hearing about them several years ago and thinking what a novel idea that was. Throwing your thoughts and ideas out there for everyone to see. You won't encounter any lunatic ravings here political or otherwise, unless something goes horribly wrong (read: Zombie Apocalypse). I'll be posting primarily about knitting and dyeing yarn: my most loved hobbies. For me they encompass many things; they are creative, meditative, exciting, and just plain fun.

So for my inaugural post I'd like to show off a skein of yarn I dyed a couple of months ago. I call it 1976. If you were alive then you understand. Well, maybe you didn't have my wardrobe and don't understand. Never the less, here is the yarn.

I probably should mention that I have an Etsy shop, Hansen Hand Dyes, where I sell the yarn I dye. This is a skein about which I've received numerous compliments yet no one seems to want to buy it. So today I decided to reskein the yarn in an effort to show what it might look like when knit. Here it is. 

What do you think? I think it looks pretty bitchin' reskeined. Makes me almost not want to sell it now.