01.12.08
Yarn Club for January
Happy 2008 to all my Yarn of the Month Club members and all my other Blog Buddies.
(I apologize for the weird fonts, apparently something is wrong with my type sizing)
This Month’s yarn is Thunder in honor of the first 10 days of 2008. Living in Del Norte County in the northern most corner of California can be an adventure. Beside the fact that Sacramento doesn’t know we exist we have to deal with rock slides, power outages, flooding and very high gas prices ($3.49 currently). But there are the good things also. We live daily with beautiful surroundings, spectacular storms, the Smith River which is one of the last undammed rivers in the USA and the ability to live a slower, relaxed, rural life.
The first week of January 2008 bought a real ‘Del Norter’. The definition of a Del Norter is winds over 60 MPH, sea swells greater than 25 feet high, super high tides that wash over the highway and power outages. We were without electricity for over 14 hours. The good news was it really wasn’t that cold. With the help of our portable heater “Mr. Buddy” and a new Super Scrabble game board, the kids and I weathered the storm just fine.
In honor of this big storm and the suggestion from one of our club members Mama Moo in Florida, I’ve dyed for you Thunder. Normally I don’t show what the yarn will knit up like. This month I felt your yarn deserved a bit of explanation.
In each skein you actually have two separate skeins. When you ball your yarn you will see a big knot toward the middle. Due to the dying method of this yarn, what you have is two skeins that were dyed light to dark. When knit up it will look like this. 
See the socks on the bottom of the picture? Notice they go from dark at the toes to light at the tops? So, if you want your stocks to match I suggest you wind your yarn into two balls and knit the socks from the same end of each skein.
Thanks to my DH Brad who is becoming an expert with the Knitty Noddy. He spent a couple nights re-winding each dyed ball.
Enjoy the rest of January and be safe.
If you are interested in joining the Yarn of the Month Club for Spring/Summer 2008, you can go HERE to see the specifics.