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I am about to celebrate ColorStorm’s 5 year anniversary.  As part of my celebration I want to hold a competition for help designing a new multi-color! To enter, please send me a picture and name suggestion through email or messaging.  My email is artylinda6@gmail.com; My Instagram account is colorstorms.yarn.  Naming a new color is one […]

Please follow me at colorstorms.yarn on Instagram where I now post current pictures of my dye work.  This summer has pulled me away from the business quite a bit but I’m picking up the pieces from this past winter and spring with a new trunk show near my home in Highland MD.  I’ll be at “So

At this recent MD Alpaca Festival, November 12 and 13, at the Howard County fair grounds, I introduced some new yarns and had a sale for old yarns.  Since I am running this little company by myself, I cannot do everything.  So I decided that in order to GROW as a company and try new

It was nice to be invited back to talk about natural dyes again.  This time I focused on blues made with black beans, showing off the lovely fleece I wrote in an earlier post. I also discussed dyeing with black walnuts, since they are all over the ground now!  It’s a wonderful time of year

Fresh out of the blocking bucket! When the variations of grey started happening, they were sudden and hard to control.  The image in the middle is the left vest.  I knit that one first.  When the yarn ran out and I couldn’t find more dark yarn I wasn’t sure what to do.  In the end

I finished the back of the blue and grey sweater vest, then had to put it aside to finish these beauties:  Martha’s little shrug, made with “Tempting Ewe So DK and Sparkly”.  The pattern is called “Entrechat.”  I’ve made this shrug twice now and love it.  All in one piece it’s magical the way it

Once upon a time in the summer of 2012 a priest in Ohio, named Kathleen, gave my daughter, Rebecca, a silver fleece.  Kathleen’s husband had a flock of 80 sheep, so perhaps this was not a great sacrifice, but it was still a lovely gift.   With similar kindness, Rebecca shared it with me! Looking

That’s the title of this little gem, written by Lisa Bruce, and given to me by a friend at the MD Central Knitting Guild. (They meet on the 3rd Wed. of every month, by the way, at the senior center in Laurel. I’ve been going for 3 years now, and found that it’s a very

If you follow my business and posts, you notice that I don’t write much.  I ENJOY dyeing yarn VERY much, and I LOVE to knit, but I don’t have a deep need to write about it.  I’m coming clean, being honest here:  I don’t really like to write posts.  Since it’s important in this business, I’m trying; and

Please recall from my “Epic Travel and Summer Knitting” post how much I enjoyed working on the pink lace shawl.  What lovely yarn and WHAT an incredible pattern by Rebecca Osborn!  In the beginning, I worked on it at 5am in the morning before the family awoke, so I could focus on the intricate stitches.