I'm pleased to report that my father has received it in the mail and tried it on, and pronounced it "perfect". The beauty of knitting for one's dad, especially as a "Daddy's girl", is that it would be perfect even if it had two neck openings and no armholes! At least at first. I hope it warms him well and is at least stylish enough that he can brag about it in the locker room and not have his friends laugh at him (and me) behind his back. It does represent nearly four years of my learning to knit, and if you look closely at it, you can see how far i've come.
Now in the yarn dyeing department, we've had to interrupt our normally scheduled programming due to snow days
and sick days.
But somehow, drumroll, Dragonfly Fibers had managed to ship off its very first
Loopy Ewe order, along with a smaller wholesale order to
Cherry Tree Hill.
Complete with
new labels!
Aren't they gorgeous?! After quite a few tries and paying several web design people and graphic design people, and not paying some very good friends who also happened to be talented artists, and getting some nice logo type things that weren't exactly right, the lovely and talented
Gryphon (yes, That Gryphon) designed the perfect thing for Dragonfly Fibers. Of course, it helps that Gryphon is not only a talented visual artist and skilled at computer image manipulation, but that she knows me and mybusiness better than most. And, being an Indie herself, she knows what makes a good yarn tag.
And, as Len Rizzi pointed out when I stumbled into his shop, I learned something from every attempt at getting a logo design done, so the money and time is not wasted. In fact, there are elements of the very first logo, done by my dear friend Mary Logan in these tags (and soon to be banner, etc). My friend Maggie gave me the dragonfly paperweight that Gryphon sketched for the actual image used. In fact, I found that with the business in general. I've made quite a few false starts and wrong turns, and have become lost in the haze of confusion only to come out clearer on the other end I still wonder every day if I should stick with it, or give the time back to my family, but now I realize these thoughts are part of the process. And let's face it, I am a natural doubter. Do you cherish your skepticism as well? Or is that just my cowardice showing again?
Two things did not make it into the Cherry Tree Hill box. When I was gleefully tagging the
Sea Sock, I notices two skeins were missing. There had been many crazy boys in my house and I havd terrible visions of them using the yarn to tie each other up or as the base of really big snow balls. After looking all over, Iwound up dying two extras and
blowdrying one skein to get it in the mail! After mailing all the boxes to their respective locations, my little boy said, "Mom, i found your missing skeins! Out here, in the bushes."
Luckily, after defrosting, drying, and removing all plant material, they are sitting happily in the
Stitches South box. Look at that sweet little azalea bud.
and sick days. 
Aren't they gorgeous?! After quite a few tries and paying several web design people and graphic design people, and not paying some very good friends who also happened to be talented artists, and getting some nice logo type things that weren't exactly right, the lovely and talented Gryphon (yes, That Gryphon) designed the perfect thing for Dragonfly Fibers. Of course, it helps that Gryphon is not only a talented visual artist and skilled at computer image manipulation, but that she knows me and mybusiness better than most. And, being an Indie herself, she knows what makes a good yarn tag. 
