Tulips! Again! Pretty!

Tulips!

I dyed a bunch of new tulips yesterday, and they too are based on a tulip grower's real bulbs. Can you tell that I have spring fever?

Apeldoorn:




Calgary Flame:




Early Morning:




Margarita:




Pallida:




Peach Melba:




Pink Powder:




Tom Pouce:




You want? email me: fritzL234 AT yahoo DOT com

Today is Groundhog Day, and I'm so happy that the stupid groundhog did not see his shadow. Shane, our resident useless creature, is happily hibernating, and not yet around. Yippee!

itsJUSTme-wendy - Early Morning is my favorite in this batch too. I can probably do a repeat of it somehow or other. I do remember what i combined to get that color. I was pretty happy with it too. I didn't expect it to be so nice.

Shane says nothing at all today; he's hibernating. Yippee.

Linda - It's so gray here today, and those tulips look even better with this boring sky.

Scrabblequeen - Oh, I do understand. One of these years I'm going to get to that one.

Surprise! All the yarns are now either on Etsy or grabbed!

Etsy: http://fritzl.etsy.com

merrilymarylee - I think the spring colors are especially nice considering that a major blizzard is about to hit northern NJ. Whine.

The Yarnarian Loves Tulips.

Tulips!

Based on pictures of real tulips, here is the Tulip Collection!

Abba Double:




Apricot Parrot:




Blue Moon:




Dream:




Gavotta:




Little Beauty:




New Design:




Weber's Parrot:




Aren't they lovely in the middle of winter? A hint of things to come. Hang in there; we are less than 2 months from spring.

baby face - I could probably do something like it. The orange part is made up of a couple of different colors, and neither color is orange. Isn't that neat? But I could probably come up with something pretty similar. You know my motto: there's always more yarn! Sorry that knitting is getting harder for you. There was a spell where my carpal tunnel really made me stop knitting and boy, did I miss it!

itsJUSTme-wendy - They really are irresistible, aren't they. I think it's because we've been wearing dark colors since the summer and we're mentally ready for spring. Don't forget that I have your brown and tan to mail out. Today or tomorrow, depending on how fast I work.

New Design and Weber's Parrot have been grabbed.

Abba Double and Blue Moon are grabbed.

Henya - I could do something sort of like it. "Sort of" because i mixed merrily away and have no idea what was combined with what.

Susie - Thank you. I had such a grand time doing them that I'm going to do some more this week.

The Yarnarian is tired and is taking a break.

Wonder Yarnarian checking in here. So far today, in no order whatsoever, I finished the soup I started last night in the crock pot. (Split pea and I tossed in some tomatoes left from the pasta e fagioli I made earlier in the day.) Got dressed like a human being. Laundry. Finished the dishes. Had the township guy check the installation of the new water heater. Changed into my disgusting dyeing clothing. Dyed yarn, cooked yarn, cooled yarn. Waiting until it all is cool enough so that I can rinse and rinse and rinse. Did my PT exercises. Stripped the bed and am drying the sheets. Did my computer work.

Wonder Yarnarian!

I had such a grand time dyeing up my tulip yarns. Warning: lots of them are pastels, but then lots of pretty tulips are also pastels. And I needed lovely colors because it's raining and gloomy and generally awful outside. So the dyeing was a real treat. And because I love you all, I'm going to subject you to terrible pics, with the colors not really on target, just so you can believe me. Are you ready? Here goes. Don't even think about asking me for any of them yet. They're sopping wet, and will look quite different when dry.




And a lovely still life of the kitchen counter where it all is hanging out. No, I don't dye in the kitchen. I dye in the Dyeing Room, aka the laundry room. But I cook and rinse in the kitchen.



Here you see the respirator. The 2 little pieces of paper toweling on either side of the nose part? Those are my protection devices because the fool thing hurts my ears. The kitchen timer doing what it does best: timing. The little piece of paper in a lid: that reminds us that the mugs we bought this weekend at an estate sale can't be microwaved. The bottle of Tums for tummies. 2 cutting boards, and one tier of my steamer. Is this not exciting?

Dry yarn tomorrow, all for you!

Henya - Yes, you did see a little bit of purple. And there's a lovely violet/green jobbie now in the Etsy shop. Just enabling you. Tee hee.