Man this year has gotten off to a rough start. Sick sick sick. Languishing in Facebook prison. Been kinda semi-depressed for some reason, probably more from being sick than anything but also when I pour so much work into a lot of yarn and it comes out complete garbage that I can't sell because [insert reason I don't understand here], it can get pretty demoralizing, and when Amber gets demoralized, she goes and sits in a corner and knits. She goes and sits in a corner and plays with her drop spindle. Eats ice cream. Doesn't get off the couch. 

Thank god that's over with. 

January sucked, but February is off to a decent start. Commemorating how garbage January was with a new color way called Black Morass. Believe me, the title is fitting and it's going to look basically exactly the way it sounds. 

The Colorway of the Month Poll is off to a ripping start with a grand total of zero submissions in January so heh I guess that means the new colorway for February gets to be whatever the !@#$ I want which suits me just fine. 

In other news, I'm (continuously) working on getting all of my stuff more organized so I can have like, an actual production schedule. I'm still gettin' into the swing of running a business and being a dyer. Almost a year I've been at this now. 

ALMOST A YEAR

For those of you who don't know me, which I assume is most of you, this is a fairly big deal for me. I have not held a job for 12 continuous months since 2010. Due to the plague of untreated mental and physical health problems, it has been simply impossible for me. But this, this yarn thing... No matter how long I am at this, I never get bored with it. From the moment I started this gradient yarn thing, it's been an adventure of learning. Nothing keeps me interested an entertained like learning new stuff, and this rabbit hole of fiber stuff is practically bottomless.

Not only that, I can't get fired from this. If I feel like shit and I have to take a week to recover from a crippling migraine I CAN. And my inventory doesn't evaporate because of it. 

I am humbled and grateful and warmed to the deepest place in my soul that people seem to love my yarn so much, and seeing the stuff everyone is making with it, just... Fulfills me in a way I never thought I would achieve in my life. 

I may  not have a massive far-reaching well established customer base right now, but... this, like anything else... the only way I can fail at this is if I decide to just stop doing it. And I am definitely not going to do that.