HUGE Fall Sale!!

Hold on to your needles...here we go...

It's time for a HUGE sale at Dyed Bright Here!  Why?  Because I have too much inspiration for cool new colors and only so much space for inventory.  So, before I can go back to my beloved bottles of outrageous color and cook up some more insanity I need to clear out some of this sock yarn.

There is no limit to how many skeins you can buy.  I will also be updating the quantities available to accurately reflect my inventory. 

Sales dates and discount percentages are (OOAK and Special Clearance listings are NOT included):

Sat. 9/25      50% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Sun 9/26      45% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Mon 9/27     40% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Tues 9/28    35% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Wed 9/29    40% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Thurs 9/30  45% OFF 

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Fri 10/1       50% OFF

All Sock Yarn and Roving

Here's how the sale is going to work:

I have decided to change the prices in the shop rather than do discounts by refund through PayPal only because either way it's work but if I do it as a refund that means that you have to have funds available for the full regular price which can be difficult sometimes.  So, I will be changing the prices for all of the items in the shop each day.  For that reason, I will take the shop down at 8:00am est each day to do the maintenance.  I don't know yet how long that will take exactly but it will be back up by 10:00am est at the latest (hopefully a lot sooner).

In case you are curious what new color projects I am impatiently waiting to start; some of the colorway ideas go with names like:

Brains (light pink and light grey)

Zombie Food (same as Brains plus red, black, green)

Rot (black, brown, green)

Yes, my horror writing friends have WAY too much influence over my thoughts lately. However, there is also:

Cotton Candy (pink, blue, teal)

Oh Baby (typical pastel baby colors of pink, blue, yellow, green)

And, I am thinking of doing some little skeins of solid colors to use for toe/heel/cuff accents or to do your own stripes, or for faire isle in combination with the variegated colors.

So you see, my friends, I REALLY need to move the skeins of coolness that are currently overflowing my work space so I can play in the dye and make skeins of crazy coolness!

Welcoming Knitting Weather!

Fall is my favorite time of year. Hands down, no hesitation whatsoever, the best. Always has been. Even long before I picked up some sticks, some string, a book, and an obsession or three.  Now that I am a Knitter, my love for all things Autumnal has only grown.  I think most of us knit year round.  I don't know about you, but for me, in the warmer months I knit socks with itty-bitty cuffs.  When I knit at all.  As soon as that first cool day happens my inner knitting alarm goes off and look out wool here I come.  I know the weather will undoubtably become warm again off and on for a few weeks yet.  I couldn't care less.  Mother nature has tipped her hand and I know cooler days and nights are coming.

I tend to think of September and the beginning of Fall as the new year.  I guess that comes from all those years of school; first as a kid myself and now as a parent.  Time to clean out the closets, see what is still servicable (and still fits), time to fill in the gaps with new things.

So, I am cleaning out some of colors that either haven't sold very well in the past, or that I don't want to dye any more of for whatever reason.  In doing that, I am making room for the new colors that I have had so much fun creating over the past couple of weeks.  I have put on sale some really great deals so that I can free up more room.  I'm itching to try some more new dyeing ideas that I think you will really like.

There are two OOAK listings still up in the shop as well as seven skeins of discontinued colorways of my sock yarn.  My High Society Sock Yarn currently retails for $22.   The discontinued colorways are priced at $10.  As of right now, there are two skeins each of Georgia Peach, New Money, and Summer Garden, and one skein of Blue Skies.  Two skeins is more than enough yardage to make a really nice shawl; for less than the cost of one regularly priced skein.  So, if you are in the mood for a bargain, check it out.

The clearance and special listings are just the tip of the iceberg though.  The real fun will start this Saturday (9/25/2010 at 10:00 am est) and will continue through Friday (10/1/2010 midnight est).  I will put the details in my next post and it should be up sometime in the next hour or so....

Blueberries

The next new colorway for the Fall and Winter of 2010 is "Blueberries".  I love the color turquoise.  I love just about any color with black.  I was originally going to combine just turquoise and black but at the last minute decided to also add royal blue.  This was a good lesson in why "going with your gut" is a good thing.  The royal blue adds a depth to the yarn that makes a huge difference.

I'm hoping to do something similar with black and other colors....

Turquoise and royal blue alternated with black.

Great for men's socks!!

I love the way it stripes!

Next up is KnitYeah!....