Miss Babs Blog

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Babs Here!! You will be seeing more and more of 0 and none available as we continue to pack up for Stitches West. We have already started to ship and the bulk will be sent in about 10 days. As we pack it up, we are changing values on the website as digging into a box is not fun, and "musses" up the yarn. If you have something you want and don't see it on the website, please feel free to contact us and we'll see what we can work... Read More

Dyeing, Dyeing, Dyeing

Babs

Babs here! Getting ready for shows is always interesting, and this first show of the year is no different. We have Stitches West in 3 weeks! So the Power Dyeing Cycle has started. Yesterday was a super-long day. I woke at 2 a.m. and did emails and sorting and organizing in my office. Then I was in the studio by 7:30 a.m. and worked mostly non-stop until 5:30. Not sure how many skeins got all colored up...but quite a few! Today will be another one of those days, except a... Read More

Rapunzel, Finally!

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Jen here! Here in the studio, on the road, and at the shows, we love our racks! They hold lots of lovely yarn, and they give us flexibility. I'm not sure why it took us so long to figure a way to configure the racks to hold braided fiber, but we finally have, and we love it!!! So many dyers display their fibers this way, and it's easy to see why... Sometimes it's hard to stop working long enough to look and see a solution. We've been braiding our butts... Read More

Website Back Up!!

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Really glad the website is back up...It felt weird that I could go check on things, add some colors/yarns, etc. Snow is coming later today, so we have been hunkering down with the yarn and dyeing even more! so we can all stay warm! Read More

Changes Coming!!

Babs

Hi Everyone! In case you can't tell, I have a hard time blogging regularly. This is, in part, because I am just so tired at the end of the day, and the other part is that I see that it has been awhile and so it is hard to say something to fill in the space! So...here's the change that is coming! Jen has been working with me for over four years and has seen me through the craziness and the growth and has been instrumental to MissBabs Hand-Dyed Yarns... Read More

SAFF was great! This Afterweek Tough...

Babs

SAFF was a great show and I want to thank everyone for their continued support of me and my yarns and fibers. I always leave SAFF a very grateful and humbled person - amazed by the customers, the vendors, and just the general affection. I came home to having to face putting one of our beloved dogs down. Miss JJ came to us about 6 years ago. My husband picked her up from the side of the road where she had been abandoned. She was terribly frightened of storms and... Read More

We Pack Today....

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Today is the last day before we leave for Asheville. Today, I am listing to one side again with vertigo or more ear infection that didn't quite go away. This has been going on for just a bit too long! Ron had his knee drilled and drained yesterday. What the h...? So I will run to the doctor's again today and get some more medicine so I can do what needs to be done! We have LOTS of sock yarn....LOTS of Yowza.....LOTS of fiber and LOTS of other things. (See... Read More

Last Few Days Before SAFF, 2009

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Well, I promised a few pictures of what we have been doing out in the studio. This doesn't show everything, by any means....but here we go! Piles and stacks of yarn and fiber that haven't been hung up yet on racks. Hanging will start in earnest today. We have to move some stuff out of the studio before we can do that though and iit was just too cold yesterday to open the doors of the studio and let the outside come in and the inside go out. Hopefully today... Read More

Mea Culpa

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I am a bad blogger! I keep saying I'll get better and I'll put more pictures up and I'll write more and more frequently. But frankly, at the end of the day, the only thing I have been able to do is get my shoes off and put my feet up for a few, then make supper or eat supper that my sweet husband has put together. Then it is actually not too long before I am "done" for the day. I have a hard time stopping during the day... Read More

Headed to the Midwest! Stitches that is!

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We head out for Stitches Midwest tomorrow. Me and Jen and the Big Orange Trailer. It has Harley colors and the motorcycle guys think we're hauling our motorcycles! It does make me feel safe...that if something happened. They'd stop and help us out. Lots of yarn! in this trailer. We have Yowza, Yummy Sock Yarn, and the new Windsor - a 3-ply sock yarn that is 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon for folks who like the nylon component in a sock yarn. We will also have lots of patterns,... Read More

Back Home from Sock Summit!

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Back home last night with Jen. We left Portland at 6 a.m. yesterday morning and drove up my driveway about 8:30 after having to circle Charlotte for an hour or thereabouts due to runway construction. Greeted by the furry friends and husband, and collapsed into bed soon thereafter! Slept almost 9 hours (which is incredible for me!) and am still pooped!! Glad to be back in my regular time zone - amazing how difficult it is to accustom yourself to other time zones. Sock Summit was great! Meeting so many... Read More

New Sock Patterns for Sock Summit!!

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We are down to the wire! Just a few things left to do before we leave for the airport tomorrow to head to Portland, Oregon for Sock Summit! Before I talk about what is coming in the way of patterns and yarns at Sock Summit, here's a picture of the yarn at the Amtrak Station in Greensboro. [caption id="attachment_171" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Yarn at the Amtrak Station"][/caption] It is interesting to think of my yarn making the journey across the US without me. It went to DC and Chicago, and I... Read More