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In case you’re wondering what kinda stuff I get up to, here some of my recent experiments. By the time you see this, at ...
02/24/2026

In case you’re wondering what kinda stuff I get up to, here some of my recent experiments. By the time you see this, at least some of these skeins should be available on the website!

We have some “fun with mohair minis” and a full mohair in the Mardi Gras colorway development failure that I think I will name “oh no I ate the baby out of the king cake”, along with some minis I dyed to soak up some excess dye, and a mini mohair of Quentin V1

Next, a skein of non superwash worsted and a skein of bamboo silk sock that I dyed blue to use up some premixed stock, and a few iterations of Quentin on sparkle sock minis

There’s additional variations on Quentin and “oh no” on superwash sock, bamboo sock, bamboo sock, and zebra sock respectively

And finally, a dye mop from dying embroidery floss on silver glitter DK, griege and charcoal on gold glitter DK, a charcoal black on mermaid DK and sock (plus neon neps) and a rather pretty experiment in avocado, peach and probably espresso bean on a wool/linen blend

And the first “I will Dye for U” commission is on the rack! This yarn is destined to be a woven scarf (just another of t...
02/23/2026

And the first “I will Dye for U” commission is on the rack! This yarn is destined to be a woven scarf (just another of the many yarn related services you can pay me to conduct)

Feat. a close up of yarn in the bath

TLDR: DYEPOT COMMISSIONS OPENHey kids! I’m going to be away from my day job for a considerable portion of March and Apri...
02/23/2026

TLDR: DYEPOT COMMISSIONS OPEN

Hey kids! I’m going to be away from my day job for a considerable portion of March and April, which means sad, tiny paychecks.

BUT WAIT! I HAVE ALL THIS YARN! YARN I CAN CUSTOM DYE FOR YOU!!!

If you like me (and yarn) and want to help keep me in the studio to which I have become accustomed, I am opening up commissions. There are two pricing schemes:
$25 a skein for yarn that is labeled, and for which I can give you the specs. For orders of five (5) or more skeins of the same colorway, I’ll cut you a deal and drop the price per skein to $20
$15 a skein for yarn that came without labels. I have a pretty good idea of what base and weight the yarn is but I can’t swear to it, so you get a discount.

“But Emma!” I hear you cry, “These are such low, low prices for what will be beautiful and colorful yarn!” Yes, it is true. But I don’t have an extensive catalogue of tested and repeatable colorways for you to point to and so what I end up coming up with based on your request is going to be something of a surprise to both of us.

For the purposes of making my life easy, half skeins count as half a skein, and mini/micros (I have some, with glitter even!) count as their relative percentage of a standard full skein. For example, a 25g mini of sock yarn counts as a quarter skein, but a 25g skein of mohair counts as a half skein because a full skein of the Suri mohair-style I have on hand only weighs in at 50g because it’s so fluffy.

Want a sweater quantity? F**k it, I’ll order it if I don’t have it already if you need at least 5 skeins of the same base

Bases I have on hand:
Lots of sock yarn, with or without sparkles, in full and mini skeins
Merino/bamboo/silk fi*****ng
Lots of Suri silk mohair, in full and half skeins
NON MOHAIR lace weight!!
NON superwash light worsted
Something that might be a sport or light DK?
DK with gold glitter
MISCELLANEOUS!! Seriously I got some onesy-twosies of a few different things, if you see a picture of something down there just ask me what’s up.

This post was written without any assistance from AI, and in fact was somewhat hindered by AI, because autocorrect doesn’t believe in Suri alpacas

My yarn and dye and yarn dyeing accessories are here!!!! Now I'm capable of EVEN MORE NONSENSE! I've unpacked the dyes a...
01/30/2026

My yarn and dye and yarn dyeing accessories are here!!!! Now I'm capable of EVEN MORE NONSENSE! I've unpacked the dyes and I'll be posting more pictures Monday when I'm going to be here all day, but in the meantime, have a teaser photo :)

Finally quit being a bum and put some new hand dyed yarn on the website. Most of it is OOAK stuff, I'm still learning an...
01/26/2026

Finally quit being a bum and put some new hand dyed yarn on the website. Most of it is OOAK stuff, I'm still learning and dicking around so a lot of things aren't going to be repeatable because I'm still in the "what does this button do?" phase. Sometimes the result is bleh, other times awesome, like this tie-dye sock blank!

Link in the comments :)

Colorway achieved! Is it not interesting how different fibers take dye differently? Also, now the Mermaid glitter is act...
01/19/2026

Colorway achieved! Is it not interesting how different fibers take dye differently? Also, now the Mermaid glitter is actually visible.

My steamer basket experiment was of mixed success, but now I know that what I thought would go wrong did indeed, and I can adjust next time. F**k ICE!

(Also, a pink skein I dyed in the unexhausted bath from It Looks Like Brains)

“It looks like brains” is dry and fluffy and black light reactive! Also feat “let’s try to develop a colorway” and an ex...
01/19/2026

“It looks like brains” is dry and fluffy and black light reactive!

Also feat “let’s try to develop a colorway” and an experiment in the steamer basket

Drying
01/12/2026

Drying

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01/12/2026

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