Thank you for stopping by my new web site, ColorStorm Yarns. It’s been a work in progress for many months. My vision is to create dozens of colors and color combinations for yarn. I’ve made solid colors, semi-solids, multi-colored, and gradient groups, and it’s exciting to explore the endless possibilities! I hope you enjoy exploring the yarn I am offering. Currently, I work out of my house, using my kitchen, dining room, laundry room, and basement…..the work goes on every week…..dying, blogging, filling orders, designing, labeling, and preparing for workshops and shows. So if you see a color that is “backordered,” please don’t let that stop you from ordering. Order it anyway, and I will begin immediately to make that color just for you. It takes about 2 weeks.
You can read all about my family and how they’ve helped me pull all this together, in my bio.
Here is a picture of my yarn at the Sheep and Wool Festival. I’m in a corner of Cloverhill Yarn’s booth. Their store is located in Elkridge, MD.
At the moment, I just finished dyeing 24 100g hanks of various shades of orange! Darks and lights, and some with yellow added. The madder root is a fun natural color to work with. You can dye with it over and over again. These 24 hanks all came from 1 pound of madder root that I bought from “Woolery”, a fiber arts supply store in Kentucky. They supply the madder root, cochineal, and logwood that I use in my dying. The apple bark, pokeberries, and black walnuts come from my own yard- or neighbors who kindly let me pick in their yard.
Top yarn, left to right: nectar and peach orchard, both in Woolpaca. Bottom yarns, left to right: peach orchard in Meritime and storm peach semi-solid in Woolpaca.
Here are the 4 colors of orange re-skeined and ready for lables, in the same order:
Now that I’m done with madder root at the moment, it’s time to pick pokeberries and black walnuts! Plus right now I have pots simmering some yarn in their alum mordant, ready for logwood purple and cochineal pink!