Ordering and Pricing Info for the Balticon 2013 Yarns

NOTE: Ordering for these yarns is closed through this site.  Any remaining skeins can be found at my Etsy Shop while supplies last.

As in past years, I will be offering discounts for buying more than one colorway...the more you buy, the more you save. 

Because these are Limited Editions and in very small quantities there is a limit to one (1) of each colorway for the first week that these are on sale.  After than, if you would like to order more of a particular colorway (and it hasn't sold out already), you are absolutely welcome to do so.  Prices for additional skeins will be $22 each.

These colorways will go on sale Sunday, May 5, 2013, at 8:00 am Eastern.

To order, send an email to DyedBrightHere (at) gmail (dot) com. 

I will then send you an invoice through PayPal.  This invoice is your order confirmation.  If a colorway that you want has already been sold out, I will instead reply directly to your email to see how you would like to proceed at that point.

Orders are first come, first served according to the time stamp of your email.

Prices are:

$24 for 1 colorway

$46 for 2 colorways 

(save $2)

$67 for 3 colorways 

(save $5)

$88 for 4 colorways 

(save $8)

$110 for 5 colorways 

(save $10)

$120 for the complete set of Balticon 2013 colorways 

(save $24...like getting a skein for free)

Shipping anywhere in the US will be $3 for 1-3 skeins and $5 for 4 or more skeins

International shipping will be $10 per order regardless of number of skeins

If you will be attending Balticon and would like to save on postage, just let me know in your email and I will deliver them to you there.

Veronica: 4 skeins available

Demoness: 5 skeins available

Walk the Fire: 5 skeins available

Literary Gold: 5 skeins available

Ama: 4 skeins available

War Dogs: 5 skeins available

A word (or two) about the Balticon Colorways

(cue melodramatic music)

I don't want to bore you all with any long sob stories.  So I'll try to keep it short and tear free...

The short version is that while I still love creating hand dyed yarn, I don't have the space, time, or to be honest, the desire to do it much at all anymore.  My Etsy shop has been closed (for all intents and purposes since I pulled all the stock) for a year now.  I still have a few skeins taking up space here that I should list and get rid of...if only to free up the space and make a few dollars.

That said, Balticon is so very special to me.  And, the Balticon Colorways even more so because they represent my two creative loves (yarn and words) colliding and resulting in something unique.  Balticon is my one special weekend each year. It's a chance to see friends from all over the country, be surrounded by creative people who understand not just me but the challenges I face creatively, and to spend a long weekend focusing just on creativity. 

I started dying these colorways as a way to pull together my love of the stories and podcasts that are created by those friends I see at Balticon each year with my love of yarn and color.  I experience life in color...feelings are colors, characters are colors, words and stories evoke colors. I love translating things I read or listen to into colorways. To take one piece of art and use it as inspiration for a raw material that someone else will then turn into their own piece of art is a beautiful cycle.

I have since turned these yarns that are created in honor of the people and stories that make up Balticon into the way I pay for the privilege of attending each year. So, they serve a purpose besides just being pretty.  The proceeds from the sales of the Balticon Colorways is how I can afford to attend. The only way I can afford to attend.

So, I would like to say, in advance, to anyone who purchases these yarns, a sincere and heartfelt thank you. I hope they bring you hours of knitting enjoyment followed by years of joy as you use whatever you create. They are truly a labor of love.

Peacock Colorway Available,

--May 1, 2013--Update: Just 4 skeins remaining!

It's that time of year again!  Balticon is almost here...time to dye the Limited Edition Balticon Colorways for this year.

But first, I had this colorway that I've been dyeing to create (see what I did there?).  And amid starting to work on the Balticon colors I decided it was time...because when you are up against a deadline is always the best time to do an extra project at the same time. Right?

In case you can't tell from the colorways I've produced in the past, my favorite colors are pink, purple, red, and turquoise.  So, I'm not really sure where the idea to do a peacock inspired colorway came from, but it's been burning a hole in my brain for a while now.  If you follow me on Pinterest you'll see a number of peacock images that I used for inspiration.

I wanted to have the rich, deep blue of the body and head combined with the colors of the tail.  At first, I was going to design the skein so that it was more than half deep blue and then put the tail colors all together. But, doing that would have meant that it striped every other row dark blue with the other colors sort of spiraling in the rows in between. And, I may end up doing another version of these colors like that sometime in the future, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted this first time out.

What I really wanted was spirals of the rich blue alternating with the tail colors.  I used a sapphire blue, teal, turquoise, yellow-green, and a steel blue-grey.

What I got was the following:

Due to the interest I've had in this colorway since before I even started skeining the yarn, I made a double batch.  That means I have a dozen skeins available on a first come, first serve basis.

Pricing is as follows:

1 skein $24

2 skeins $46 (save $2)

3 skeins $67 (save $5)

4 skeins $88 (save $8)

5 skeins $110 (save $10)

6 skeins $120 (save $24)

Shipping is $3 for 1-3 skeins anywhere in the US, $5 for 4+ skeins anywhere in the US, and $10 for international shipping for any number of skeins.

If you will be at Balticon and can wait to take delivery until then, no shipping charge.

To order this colorway, just send an email to DyedBrightHere (at) gmail (dot) com from the email address you would like me to invoice through PayPal.