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April 06, 2008
A moody medley
And if juggling four balls of yarn isn't your cup of tea, the folks at Lorna's Laces have your number!
What a gorgeous combination of blackberry, navy, natural, and lilac: all the colors I'm using in the stripy spiral socks!
And wouldn't you know it, this new colorway is named after me! Grumperina colorway, hehe!
When Beth at Lorna's Laces first mentioned the idea to me, I was like, really?!? Never in my wildest dreams! At the same time, of all the different yarns out there, I couldn't be happier to see my nickname on a hank of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock. But you knew that.
I really like the moodiness of this colorway. I think it's the perfect medley to have "grumpy" in its name (even though my favorite color is red, and my general grumpiness is always questioned ;)).
And yet another wonderful thing - Grumperina Shepherd Sock is exclusive to my favorite LL supplier, Linda!
Linda, emtnestr on eBay, has recently began to transition to her own store on the web, Birds-n-Yarn, and invites you to check out her new home. With all the Lorna's and the Cherry Tree Hill and the hand-crafted dpns, it's certainly worth a look ;). And of course if you want some of the special colorway, you have to visit.
OR...
You can leave a comment here, and I'll randomly select one lucky reader to receive two skeins of LL Shepherd Sock in the Grumperina colorway!!! Comments have been closed, and the winner will be announced shortly! Thank you for reading!
Comments
oh well now! I can't help but leave a message! That's so awesome!! :-)
Congratulations on getting your own colorway! How cool is that?! I really like those colors together too.
Wow! Congrats - it's gorgeous!!
The Grumperina colorway is absolutely gorgeous. I can think of a ton of desserts from looking at those colors. Blueberry Buckle, Plum tart, Berries in a Cloud...
That is so beautiful! Immortalized in yarn, perfect.
Pretty stuff. And now you're famous.
very pretty!
gefeliciteerd (congratulations) on your own colourway..way to go.
Carolien
well aren't you a lucky girl? a colorway named after yourself? that's insta-celebrity status!
Now i need to go eat some blueberries..
How great is that?! It certainly is a cool combination, Kathy. Tres sweet!
How exciting, your own colorway!
That color is awesome. And congrats on the name! *crosses fingers hopes to win*
That's how you know you've arrived - your own Lorna's Laces coloway. Pretty colors!
Beautiful color combination, they got it just right!
Oh, excellent! I was admiring the colours but thinking that the striping method was more trouble than I usually take with my socks. Lorna's has my back as always! It's beautiful.
Congratulations! It's beautiful.
Wow, how cool!!! And some of my favorite colors- I'd be thrilled to win!
That yarn is amazing!
Very lovely colors. I've been fascinated by your spiral socks. Leave me out of the drawing, though. I've already got too much sock yarn and live in Florida where I can't wear wool.
You put the colors together and it is yours! Stupendous!
Holy crap! How cool is that!
Congratulations on your colorway. It is beautiful.
Utterly gorgeous!
Congratulations! Blogger power!
That colour is great! And you must feel very special to have it named after you.
It's beautiful! Congratulations.
I'm a new sock knitter, and can't wait to try out the striping method you've been explaining. Also love that self striping yarn.
Yarn named after you? I think it's safe to say you have arrived ;)
That's awesome! I'd love to be in the raffle for the yarn ... although I will eventually figure out that spiral knitting.
i think that getting your own sock yarn colorway means that you've 'arrived' as a knitting blogger...immortalized in yarn like celebrities with stars on the walk of fame.
have i buttered you up enough to get the yarn yet?
Perfect for a pair of Jaywalkers!
Lovely color combination - I'm not usually a fan of white/off-white being part of a variegated yarn, but it works really well here!
That is very cool! And a gorgeous colorway, too. :)
Wow that is very cool!
Congrats. It's a beautiful colorway!
What a lovely colorway, some of my favorites too. :)
How wonderful! The colors are lovely, too, which makes it all the nicer.
Congrats! Beautiful colorway!!
thank you so much for the tutorial - what a great way for you to be rewarded!
I love that color combination in your recent tutorials - all in one skein they're even better!
Ooooh, I love it! What an honor!
How cool are you? What a great colorway to boot!
How cool is that! Pretty neat to have beautiful yarn named for you.
Congrats on the colorway! I love how your socks are coming out! Too bad with the new colorway you can't do the solid heel toe though ;o)
very nice!
Congratulations! Looks great.
What an honor. And those colors look really good together. I can't wait to see it knit up!
Wow, your own colour in your favourite yarn! Congratulations.
It does have a certain grumpiness about it...the moody purples and blues. I love it. It's blueberry pie.
That is so cool!
Congrats on the beautiful namesake colorway!!! Its gorgeous, but of course who could expect less? And who doesn't
You're right, it is very moody, like a stormy night, or the gloaming before the dawn.
Beautiful colors! Congratulations!
Congrats on your won colorway. What an honor!
You lucky girl, you are now offically a Color! So neat!
How Cool!!!!!! LOVE the colors!!!
Congratulations!
how cool is that!?!? gorgeous colorway.
Wow, it's gorgeous! Now all us "not-quite so gifted but still stripe loving" knitters can get a chance at those lovely colors. Congratulations on the colorway. Your stripes inspire us all :)
Woah! I'm super-jealous, I wish I could have a sock yarn named after me!
Congratulations!
Smashing.
What a great color combo! Individually or as a package deal!
Love those colors!! Am on my fifth pair of socks since summer and ready to go for six...
Beautiful yarn - love the combination of colors!
Perfect! No ends to weave in!
I really like the colour, but I don't see it as moody. It's neat to have one named after you.
Congratulations on your new fame - it's a gorgeous colorway & I am off to visit the store now.
Such pretty colors!
I love this color combination! Beautiful.
Congratulations! Those colors are great, and what an honor to have your name on the colorway! And I love Linda's site (emtnstr), I spend wayyyyyy too much money there, but looks like I will need to spend more !!!!! :-)
love that they came up with a colorway for you!
If you hadn't already "arrived" in the knitting world, you'd definitely know you had now! What a lovely colourway. Congratulations!
It's beautiful! How are your socks coming?
You.are.amazing!
Oh, and I just started a Picovoli. Another testament to your amazingness.
How cool to have a colourway (that's right for me, I'm Canadian) named for you. And to have such a beautiful one at that!
That is pretty damned cool.
Love the colorway, and thanks for the tutorial. I'll have to try it someday -- if I ever get around to buying solid colored sock yarn! :)
Wowza... with all your proclaimed love for Lornas Laces, you totally deserve to have your own colorway!
Wow! That is so cool! Congratulations!
Such a pretty colorway!
This is absolutely gorgeous!
Oh, how very cool!
Congratulations on getting your own yarn! That is so awesome! Even if those are not your favourite colours, they are mine!!
Fingers-crossed that I am that lucky reader! The colorway is gorgeous! What an honor it something special dyed in your honor.
That is just too cool to have your own colorway in one of my favorite yarns. Those are my favorite colors too! No joke!
Thank you for the chance to win a skein of your new yarn, Congratulations BTW!
That is fantastic! Congratulations on your own colourway - of Lorna's Laces no less! I couldn't think of a more perfect yarn to be called Grumperina. Unless, of course, it were LL SS in some sort of red colour!
I really like the colour, but I don't see it as moody, just a lovely combo. It's neat to have one named after you.
Wow - that's really cool! And a beautiful colorway it is!
Very cool to have a colorway named after you! And such a great one!
You're even More famous! CONGRATS on having your own lovely colorway!
Congratulations, it's lovely!
Your own colorway... how cool is that! The only thing cooler might be your own flavor from Ben and Jerry's... of course, this one isn't nearly as fattening!
Well that's pretty freaking incredible.
How lovely! I'd like some, please. :)
I love those colors together. Also, my Grumpy (who some would call Grandpa) has always been a very special person in my world. What an honor your own colorway is!
Lucky you! I'm sure it will be snapped up quick.
Oh, it's gorgeous. What an honor.
I LL Shepherd Sock yarn. In any colors...but this is especially cool. Cool beans!
Beautiful. Just beautiful. I'm feeling a little grumpy lately myself.. maybe socks in a grumpy color way is just what I need.
Having a yarn colorway named after you is the surest sign that you have "made it" in the world! So cool! And I love the colors!
woo hoo! It's like you're famous or something :)
Woo hoo! I throw my hat in the ring!
You are such a knitting rock star! And so down to earth :)
So, so pretty. I want this, and I plan to buy it, but thought I'd offer the comment just in case it's my lucky day.
How thrilling to have the yarn named for you, congrats!
yay for contests!
Awesome colors!
That is so cool! What a lovely gesture. I bet it made your day :)
So cool! I've been lurking and reading your blog for ages, but two skeins of grumperina from grumperina was too much to resist, I had to post!
congratulations! it's gorgeous!
Awww... how nice for you. Very pretty colourway it is, too!
congrats on the new colorway!!
That is a beautiful colorway. What fun to have it named in your honor. Congratulations.
Lynn
oh, how cool! congrats on getting your own colorway :)
That's so exciting! Congrats on your own colorway. It had to be done, I think. Yay!
Very cool! I love the colors!
Beautiful colourway! Congratulations. =)
your name on yarn? super cool. love these colors together.
Thanks for the great tutorial on spiral stripes...and thanks for the tip on the lazy version! It looks like a great colorway!
How cool to have your very own LL yarn! It's perfect!
Huge congrats! The colors are absolutely perfect!
That's absolutely beautiful. I love Lorna's. I didn't realize why so many people adored it until I touched my first skein...and then I had my epiphany.
love the color!!
What an honor :-)
What a beautiful colorway! That's great.
That's so awesome! Immortalized in yarn; I can hardly think of anything more fitting. :) (I also find it striking how many comments you've gotten in less than 2 hours!)
Oooh, fancy! I aspire to have a color of something named after me someday.
Congrats! Lorna's Laces is one of my favorite sock yarns as well... so soft, but also so durable.
Lovely yarn, lovely inspiration!
It's a great colorway - but will it stripe as perfectly as the socks? I can imagine a great pair of mittens or fingerless gloves to go with your new pair ...
Congrats to both you and Linda!
OH that is pretty! Congrats!
Congratulations! It looks like a lovely yarn. I'll be checking her shop out.
oh my goodness. you've hit the big time now. how fantastic for you! and it's such a beautiful moody colorway too.
I fell bad, this is the first time I've posted a comment on your blog (though I've been a lurker for quite some time) and it's for a contest.
But I don't feel that bad, that's some hella delicious sock yarn!
That's an awesome colorway -- I can't wait to see how it knits up!
Oh, my! What a lovely colorway. Is naked, unabashed begging allowed? If so, consider yourself begged.
how beautiful! "pick me! pick me!" (said the donkey to shrek)
All colors you're using in the stripey sock - and all colors you tend to use a bunch. That is a very nice salute to you!
I do hope the random number generator lands on me... :)
That's clearly the awesomest yarn since sliced bread. Or...erm...the awesomest colorway since Edgewater? Same difference. =]
Fabulous colorway -- and what an honor for you! I'm just about to start a spiral something, maybe a tshirt instead of socks, using your excellent diagrams. There's no reason why it shouldn't work on a larger scale.
I love those colours and I love Lorna's Laces -- what a great combination!
it IS gorgeous! congratulations!
gorgeous colorway!! aren't you just the inspirational one ;)
Oh my gosh, of course I'd love some fabulous Grumperina yarn! Though, I do still plan to try the spiral socks myself someday (when I'm off my yarn diet).
Congrats on a self-named yarn, that's so cool!
Congrats on your own colorway; that is so exciting!
Congratulations! Must be pretty terrific to have a colourway named after you! (Then again, my name is actually fairly represented in yarn names)
Wow, I am impressed. I love how the colors interact. Yummy!
I was just thinking the other day that this would be a fantastic colorway and here it is! Congratulations on having your own colorway - I think it's perfect :o)
gorgeous, congrats!
did you get to choose the colors, or was it a coincidence? very nice :)
That is lovely!
Ooh, that reminds me of blackcurrant-vanilla ice cream :) Mmmm. You're making my mouth water first thing in the morning. Lovely!
Yum-O! I'm in. Thank you!
Gorgeous! I love that color combination, but I so totally don't have the patience to deal with juggling four balls of yarn for socks. How nice of Lorna's Laces to help out those of us without your patience and expertise!
I love your colorway. I want it. In fact I'm on Birds-n-Yarn's site now order a couple of skeins. There's always room in my stash for a couple more. :)
What an honor! I can't wait to see your finished socks and then see some of the socks people make out of your namesake.
It's every knitter's dream to have a colorway named after them. It's fantasy even in our dreams to have a colorway in Lorna's Laces named in our honor. You are one lucky girl, well maybe not so lucky, because you earned it! Congratulations!
Congrats on having your own LL colourway. Now you have truly arrived :)
First time commenting --
what beautiful yarn, and what a sweet gesture!
I can't wait to sit down when I have some time (busy time in second semester) to figure out your striped sock procedure.
It's a pleasure to read this.
That is beautiful!
Holy crap that's a beautiful colorway! I hope I win!!!!
I can't believe you have a colorway named after you! How exciting is that. Congratulations. :)
Great to see a company paying such close attention to what goes on in the knitblog world.
Congratulations!
That is fabulous-the colours are a perfect mix. Maybe someday I'll grow and be famous like you having my colourway.
Wow what a beautiful colorway!!! Congrats! That must be quite an honor. I especially love the blackberry and navy, they're so deep and rich! Then again from what I've seen, Lorna's Laces always has such rich colors (though I myself have not yet had the pleasure of knitting with her yarns, hopefully I will soon! :)
What a wonderful colorway! I need to get paid so I can buy some already ;)
That colorway is gorgeous!
What a great color combination!
Congratulations! That is cooler than getting your picture in the paper!
I think this means that you're truly a celebrity! It's a lovely colorway.
Ok, that is way cool. Your own colorway in the colors you are knitting. Too neat. :)
Oh, it really reminds me of blackberries and the summer we have been so patiently waiting for all winter.
as a long-time blog-stalker of yours, i just have to say that this is my favorite project of yours, EVER. Congratulations on the colorway!
You got me hooked on lorna's laces! Love love love your colorway!
Congratulations, you deserve the honor for your Service to Knitters! On Saturday I was in a yarn shop and seriously contemplated 4 balls of yarn going into one sock on my needles .. nah, too much for me. This is perfect!
That's very cool, congratulations :)
I like the "grumpiness" of it too! Congratulations.
Wow! Your own colorway - quite the compliment! And it's lovely too.
Beautiful sock yarn, and a terrific spiral sock. This is my next sock project.
Wow, that is lovely! I will keep my fingers crossed for a win since my yarn budget for this month is already all tied up. But there's always next month of course...
Bee-yoo-tee-ful colorway! Congrats.
Wow! You know you're a superstar when they name a yarn colorway after you! Congrats :)
Ohhh, pretty. I lurve it.
That's so cool! Congratulations! And the colorway is just beautiful.
Socks are on my list of "things I can make now" while I'm in the process of losing weight after gastric bypass surgery. I can't wait to do sweaters for myself, but have a long way until I'm there. In the meantime, I'd love to check out the LL yarn. Congrats on having a yarn named after you.
You're so famous! It's gorgeous. =)
mmm...those are beautiful colors - perfect for a pair of socks. (colors that I love but don't have a lot of in my stash...why is that?)
Holy moly! You're famous. Awesome.
Wow.
You've made it big now. :)
congrats!
That's PERFECT! Now I truly have no excuse to do another pair of socks! I've bought LL from Linda before...and I'm headed back there to do it again. Thanks for the heads-up!
191 comments already...what the heck, I'll throw my name in the hat too just cause it looks SO yummy!
What a wonderful gift, to have your nickname on some LL!!! Congratulations! :)
Wow - knitblogger, published designer and now you have had a colourway named after you! What's next?
That's a great colour... and much less insane than all the dangling ends.
A fitting tribute!! You deserve it for all you've taught us!
Oooh, congrats on the colorway, what an honor! And the colors are gorgeous!
I think it is so cool to have a sock yarn named after you. I adore the colors!
Wonderful! And thanks for all your entertaining and educational blogs!
Cheers!
I've been really intrigued by the way you've been constructing this sock. Thanks for sharing it with us. One of these days I'll have to give it a try. It must feel great to have your own colorway! Congrats!
4 skeins of Lorna's Laces were my first "real yarn" buy. I saved up for a month to be able to afford it. Then I held on to the yarn for years, because it was too special to knit. I hope the person who wins the yarn loves it as much as I did.
What a beautiful colorway!
pretty! (and something else to file under "you know you've hit the knitting big-time when...")
Beautiful! I love reading your blog, and really like reading the scientific approach to knitting. It keeps it intriguing.
i love your site! i check it everyday!
Beautiful colorway!
Linda's my favorite ebay LL supplier too. :) Love the colorway!
Beautiful! And not grumpy at all!
What a gorgeous colorway! All of my favorite colors together. I can't wait to get my hands on some and see how it knits up. Congrats on having a yarn named after you. Love it.
That is so cool!! Congratulations on your namesake - it's beautiful yarn.
Congrats! The colors are gorgeous. I need to buy some on my next payday. :)
Congrats.. and such beautiful colors too!
How lovely! You're the one who sold me on this yarn, and while I'm always open to try a new sock yarn, this is the one I always come back to!
beautiful colorway!
Congratulations on such a beautiful colorway!
Beautiful color, I love LL. How wonderful to have a colourway named after you.
FUN! Love the colour combo!
Pick me! Pick me!
Now you are a sock superstar, congratulations!!
Probably the knitter's equivalent of a star on the Hollywood walk of fame is having their alias be used as a colorway!
Very cool to have a yarn named after you (crazy celebrity blogging world we live in)! Beautiful colours (and the perfect moody name for the combination). Congratulations!
Congratulations! Great yarn with a wonderful name! Thanks again for the spiral tutorial!
nothing like a yarn giveaway to bring out the lurkers! I do love that colorway.
What a beautiful colorway to have named after you!
It's gorgeous! I can't wait to see it knit up!
How cool! I love this colorway, and to have oneself immortalized in yarn. Congratulations.
Wow! I guess you know that you have become a permanent fixture in knitendom when LL names a colorway after you. I can't think of many things that I'd be more pleased to win than two skeins of Grumperina Shepherd Sport. Good luck to everyone, but I hope you understand when I say I sure hope I win!
Congrats! What an honor!
Hurrah! That's a gorgeous skein of yarn. :) I think you've definitely "arrived".
That is a lover-ly colorway! So nice of them to name it for you. :)
This is my first time commenting, but I've been reading your blog for a long time now.
Anyway, that is pretty awesome! Shepherd Sock was the first sock yarn I ever used. I love those colors together.
woot! how awesome...a milestone with which to measure your knitting life!!!
Lovely!
What better way to be immortalized than on the cozy warm feet of knitters everywhere!
yeah, i need more sock yarn like i need a hole in the head, but i love the colorway! *crosses fingers*
also, thanks so much for the detailed spiraling stripes tutorials... so helpful!
ooooo, gorgeous!!!
I have a question, does this yarn self-stripe or are the repeats too short? Either way, I'd love to win the yarn!
Wow, how cool!
Wow, how cool! I was having fun figuring out your tutorial (I don't knit socks yet...but was thinking of trying it out on a hat. I have 3 skeins of alpaca in very similar colors that would work. That yarn is GORGEOUS!!! ...heading over to take a look...
It's in some of my favorite colors!
How cool! Very pretty -- although it'll never stripe as perfectly as your sock :)
Well, how cool is that! Great colors together. Did you know about this before starting your sock or is this one of those wonderful quirks of life?
What a beautiful colorway! and how perfect for you. Congratulations!
Lucky you!
Over the past few days I've been going through my stash trying to find three or four colours that produce such a pleasing combination as this - haven't found it yet,but I'm still itching to try a spiral stripe! Thanks so much for the knitting tutorials, you have a good way with explaining techniques, which has obviously now been rewarded!
hey that's so cool. i have to say i'm enjoying the colors even more together in the same skein, not sure how/why...
Coming out of the woodwork for this drawing- I've been loving your striped socks tutorial, and I love this colorway! I've been dying to try some Lorna's Laces, as well. Three birds, one stone!
Congrats! Beautiful!
So very cool!
you're a yarn! how cool!
That is so neat, I really love the colors you've been using. How nice to have them all in one place!
Grumperina's colorway rocks.
I'd love to knit it up in socks.
It's the latest craze from Lorna's Laces.
How nice to have admirers in high places!
(Pick me -- I wrote you poetry!)
by Z
Now that's the kind of celebrity perk I could get behind. I think this will have to be my first Lorna's Laces foray.
Awesome! How cool is that?! Congratulations!
It's funny because whenever I come across Lorna's Laces, I always think of you now - always. :)
Ooooohh, how lovely! Those colours are absoulutely wonderful together--congratulations!!!
So, how does it feel to be immortalized in sock yarn?? Purty speshul! I'm into random AND those colors will be so go with much of my wardrobe.
Love it!
Congrats! I loved the color combination since the beginning.
I wanna win! you are so lucky to have a yarn named for you.
Wow. That is so cool to have something that lovely named after you! I'd love to try my hand at a pair of socks made out of that.
Gorgeous colourway! Can't wait to see how it knits up.
Wow! What beautiful colors together. Must feel awesome to have a yarn named after you!
How exciting! It's a beautiful colorway.
Oh, I've heard so much about LL but live in an area so rural it is completely devoid of LYS's. I'd love to try this yarn!
I've seen a few colorways named for bloggers (and one for a famous blog-cat) and they always seem to fit the online personalities really well. This is a beautiful colorway. Congrats on being even more knitty-famous!
The real question is, does it stripe in the same way as your own project?
Very exciting all around!
I've purchased from Linda before and wish her well in her new endeavour.
And your namesake is lovely! I love those colors.
I am inspired by your demo to cast on for some spiral socks this week; something I've always meant to get around to trying. Thanks for the demo & kick in the pants!
Wow, 265 comments already.
Who needs fame and fortune when you have a LL colourway named after you?
That's so awesome! It's like the best parts of summer, all rolled into one skein. And thank you for the links. :)
woo wooo!! having a lorna's laces colorway named after you is a high honor indeed. :) congratulations!
Pretty neat---your own colorway. Congrats!
Wow, what an honor to have your own colorway!
wow, how cool! yarn named after you :). i'm checking out linda's store now!
I couldn't continue to just lurk with a temptation of yarn like that. I've been really enjoying your blog and am especially intrigued by your stripey spiral socks - I'm definitely going to have a go. The colourway is very pretty, what an honour to have a colourway named after you.
how cool to have your own colorway!
love those colors together!
Wow!Congrats! I just ordered 2 skeins - can't wait to get them!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! That is a gorgeous colorway!
Beautiful! And just the colours I would have chosen for you too!
Gorgeous colors!
OMG. wow. i'm in LOVE. your ball-juggling method has changed my life, and it even works for crochet (which i only use occasionally, but my mother does exclusively, which is why i tried it...)
mmm. yarn!
I'm coming out of lurk mode for this! The yarn looks beautiful
Carla
What a cool feeling to have a yarn named after you. Congrats!!
Beautiful colorway!
well, it's about time that you get your own colorway!! it's beautiful. i'm going to have to order some when i get paid! :)
How cool! Congrats!
I'd love Grumperina socks!
The colors are beautiful! and very inspiring!
I'm not always crazy about the hand-dyed colorways out there, but this one is awesome!
Congrats on having your own special colorway!! It's lovely.
That's really neat, getting yarn named after you! Congratulations!
A well deserved honor! The colors are beautiful and should make an amazing pair of socks. I'd love to see them on my feet!
Congratulations! And such a lovely colorway, too.
I hope you're framing one of those labels!
So pretty! Congratulations!
Hey, congratulations! What a cool thing, to have a LL colorway named for you! I love the colors, too. I just love Lorna's Laces.
Oh wow, how very very cool. It's a beautiful colorway - and how nice of you to give some away!
Wow - just what a lazy knitter needs.
Congratulations! How exciting. Did you ever think you would be immortalized through yarn? And good thing it's such a gorgeous colorway too!
Woo Hoo...how awesome to have a colorway named after you! Fabulous colors they are too!!!
Very cool of you to have a contest and share. :)
Congratulations - quite an honor - you deserve it !!!
Absolutely gorgeous colors, anxious to see how they knit up :=)
I love the colors! How exciting to have your own colorway... in your fav yarn!
Oh, what lovely yarn. I bet your feet haven't touched the ground (especially not in socks made from that)!
What a wonderful idea! The colors are perfect. I'll definitely have to make myself some Grumperina socks!
I used to buy from her all the time on e-bay. Love the werthers candy! Lovely color of yarn. I'd love to win it.
Love the colors! Thanks for the stripe tutorial--I can't stop thinking about new projects to stripe!
Congratulations on having your name added to the label. How exciting!!
hmm... I wonder if the colour repeat is in 1-row stripes too....
Wow - congratulations to your 'own' color way! Way to go!
That is so very very COOL!! Love that colorway.
This is a wonderful example of the friendliness and responsiveness of the online knitting community. Congrats on your namesake colorway!
Oh my gosh!! It is so beautiful!!! I could eat it up. The colors kind of remind me of vanilla ice cream with blackberries on top. If I don't win I know that I am going to buy a few skeins any way.
Congrats on getting your own colourway. It's fabulous!
Wow, what an honor and what a fabulous colourway!
If I tell you that Ive never used LL before would that give me a heads up? Yeah I didnt think so either! :) But its still BEAUTIFUL and whoever wins it will have a wicked comfy looking pair of socks I am sure! :)
Congratulations on the colour way, and to Emtnestr on her new shop. I've been a glad customer of hers.
How could I resist commenting, when over 300 people(!) are ahead of me? Anyway, I love your current sockproject, but I am also loning for another Lace-adventure with lots of intrige and pattern adjustments and improvements. I think a 'Niebling' would be very you.
Congratulations on the new colorway!
wooow, my favorite colors combined and with your nickname as well, Congrats!!
Congrats on the colorway! It's really beautiful!
That's a gorgeous colorway. It's great that they match the socks you are knitting.
I've been resisting trying yet another kind of sock yarn lest I get hooked, but for LL's named after you? It would so be worth it. ;)
Lovely colours and the name - priceless.
All the best,
Dawn
Wow! That is pretty amazing to have your own colorway. You do have a great sense of color; I'm glad the folks at LL noticed!
Oooh so lovely! I'm quite jealous!
what an honor for you!
I'll definately leave a comment for the chance of winning some Grumperina-yarn!
Thanks for keeping this blog open for us! I'm sure a lot of us find inspiration in the things you create and write about.
Wow! that's awesome! It's a beautiful colorway too!
I'll add my "congratulations" and "awesome" to the list, because it is! It looks so pretty!
I've been reading your blog on your single row sock instructions and its been extremely informative. I do love the colours you've chosen for this project. I think its wonderful that there's going to be sock yarn named after you!
Congratulations!! I love the colourway...simply BEAUTIFUL. :-)
Wow, Lucky you having your very own LL's colorway. It turned out lovely!
Congratulations -- what a gorgeous colourway. Love the berry colour in there.
:)
Oh wow it's very pretty!
This is a really gorgeous colourway. But you knew that already. It's amazing what those dying wizards can do!
You're famous. I would love a chance to win the Lorna Laces to make a pair of socks for myself - my daughter steals all of the ones I make!
I reckon you definately know you've made it in life when there is a yarn named after you...and such a gorgeous yarn too!
How exciting!!
How beautiful a colorway! And naming it for one of the most famous knit-bloggers makes perfect sense to me (especially with all your fascinating posts about the spiral-knitted socks!).
And who could resist a chance for gorgeus yarn? Not me!
Hats off to you! What a lovely colorway, lovely yarn & lovely lady!
Congratulations! That looks so nice, I am curious to see it worked up.
Congrats! :)
hum..no really my favorite colors and not so bright colors, but its really reflect the 'grumpy'/gloomy side..lol..and I don' mind a few hanks for myself, congratulations Kathy !
That's so wonderful, a colorway named after you! It's just beautiful.
Now, that's what I call customer service!
Congratulations!What a lovely colorway!
Love the colors. So cool to have a yarn names after you.
That's one seriously pretty colourway!
I think you have just shown me the perfect colourway for a special pair of 30th birthday socks I have to knit this month. I'm off to the shop now....
Gorgeous stuff! Please enter me. Thanks for the contest.
What are the odds of you picking me, after 350 other comments have been left? Oh well, gotta be in it to win it!
Well done on your blog, too: I love seeing what you've been up to. This spiral knitting, especially, has got my creative juices in a spin!!
It's definitely a combination of my favoritest colors. So glad that they did it just for you!
Congratulations! Since I am on a yarn diet right now I would love to win,
Thanks for the opportunity!
It's like blueberries and cream...no sourpuss there...SWEET! Congrats!!!
Sweet! Congrats on becoming a wee bit of yarn Legend. :)
Now you know you've made it in life when colourways are named after you.
Very very pretty! How lucky are you!?
Wow - your very own colorway - amazing!!!
I now have a new goal in life. Well, after world domination. But then, what's the planet, when you have a YARN with your NAME on it? :D
You have definitely arrived - if you weren't famous before, LL has made you so now. Congratulations and gorgeous colorway!
Congrats!
This yarn could not have any other name. The colours scream GRUMPERINA!. It's very YOU. Lovely!
That's awesome, preferred colours in your favourite sock yarn. What could be better than that?
What an honor!!
It took me forever to get to the bottom to add my name to the bucket! ;op
I love the tri-color blend of YOUR Lorna Lace colorway!!
Congratulations!
The wonders of yarn-based fame! :-)
A Lorna's colorway named for you...
how cool is that??!
Beautiful yarn, too!
Congratulations!!
Wow, how cool is that?!? My dd loves those colors. Thanks for the chance to win.
what an honor! congrats! it's beautiful.
Ooh, how pretty! And what a nice honor!
Very nice! Did you know about the color selection before you started your socks, or do you have ESP?
(Heehee! I stopped by to leave a comment and found a name twin had been here just before me!)
How fun to have your own colorway! How exciting is that?! Now I have to enter your contest! Congrat's and thanks!
I've been loving this series on spirals. I kid you not, I was a little slow to catch on until I had a dream about knitting spirals and now it all makes sense! Why don't I have that sort of useful dream more often?
Fantastic! Now, how will you decide which sock pattern to knit this up in......
That looks gorgeous!
I know it's the same colour combination, but there's something about 'subtle' colour changes (rather than 'new row, new colour') that makes me happy! :D
Wow, that is fabulous! (And I guess something to which I can aspire -- to have a yarn colorway named after me!)
Wow, it's beautiful! Those are pretty much the same colors of an afghan I'm working on, but substitute light blue for the lilac.
Wow, there are already so many comments... but congrats on the yarn!
Wow, what an honor! That colorway is beeeeautiful!
that yarn is really lovely. how exciting that it was made for you!
oooh, the yarn is so pretty! i love it! :D
It's a lovely combination of colours, and I just love purples; plus, it's a real honour to have such yummy yarn named after you.
A lovely yarn for a great knitting, congrats! Now we can have "grumpy" feet, though I doubt my feet would ever be grumpy in LL.
Congrats, lovely yarn!!!!
Congratulations! It's a lovely colorway, and I hope to see lots of nice things made from it.
What a lucky girl! you never know what will happen in this knitting community. One day you're providing a tutorial the next day you have a colorway named after you! Congratulations!
You deserve for the colorway to be named after you - you totally made it up!! Thanks for providing the great tutorial on how you are knitting your socks, I was eyeing all of my leftover sock yarn las night thinking it was an excellent way to eek a couple more pairs of sock out of it.
Ohhhh! Congrats, that is very cool. Love the colorway!
That's probably the coolest thing ever!
Love the new yarn, those are totally my colors!
Oh, I hope I win!!! Great color and an honor for you as well...
Congratulations! I love the color combo.
Congratulations on having your very own yarn! It is beautiful. I just used your helix striping method on a felted bag of scrap yarns. The colors are not nearly so beautiful as yours but I loved the technique. Thanks for introducing it to me!
Love the spiral idea...I personally have more than enough leftovers to choose from. Did you get to choose the colors in your LL yarn?
That's beautiful! What fun to have it named after you.
What a fun surprise!
Congratulations on having such a beautiful colorway named after you!
Congrats on being associated with such gorgeous colours and yarn! It is like being in the hall of fame.
The new colorway named in your honor is beautiful!
Please email me if I win and I will provide mailing info.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoy reading your blog, although, I am mostly a lurker.
Wow! Great colorway....congratulations!
Ooooh Pretty! Pick Me!
That's a colorway I would buy! It's really beautiful. Congratulations.
Pretty yarn, chance to win? I'm there. : ) Congratulations!
Congrats! That is gorgeous yarn, absolutely delicious looking.
Gorgeous!!!
Congrats! Such a lovely colorway I have to delurk and comment :)
How wonderful for you and Linda!! I have been buying yarn from her E bay store for a couple of years and how great is that, she now has her own store.
What are you going to make first with your yarn?
What a cool honor! Congrats and it's also a fantastic colorway.
Congrats! I love the colors.
What a beautiful colorway. How exciting. Congrats.
Well, you've really Made It, now! Congrats! I wonder what colors would express me, if I ever got famous... hmm....
Thanks for all the bloggy laughs,
Sharon
I love the new colour; it's awsome! Congrats!
What a lovely fusion of people and what they do.
A chance for Lorna's? Delurking ahoy!
Oh I just love the colors of that yarn :) What a lovely color to put your name on :)
what a great colorway!!!! how terrific for you!!!
It's lovely! I've been thinking about your spiraling sock stripe all weekend.
I love the colorway!! Knitting with that yarn would sure be easier than the spirally thing but I think your spiral sock is fabulous.
Congrats, gorgeous colorway!
Great colorway and a great name for it!
The yarn is lovely and those are my favorite colors, too!
I love those colors, and the spiral sock idea and have been stash diving to find leftover bit of sock yarn... but if I might win a skein, that would make things even easier!
Wow! What a stunning colorway!
Wow, what an honor! IT's lovely.
Those are gorgeous colors...
That is so neat to have a colorway named after you. You've finally made it in the knitting world..hehe. Really, what an honor.
Congratulations on your colourway. The colours are beautiful together.
Lovely colors! I can't pass up commenting for free stuff!
Normally just a lurker, but with that pretty colorway as a prize, I cannot avoid leaving a comment! Love your blog, and I read it regularly.
Gorgeous yarn!! And how cool to have a LL colorway named after you! :)
Woohoo!! Ultimate honor! I thought my Indianapolis Colts yarn was something, but to have your own Lorna's Laces yarn--the best! Pretty, too!
what a great colorway!
very cool to get a colorway named after you. the colors are gorgeous!
That's so cool! Congratlations.
I love Linda's store and I'm totally going to check out her new digs.
What an honor! You must be thrilled :)
What an honor! i like that they have grumpy in the name, too.
Congratulations~ It's a beautiful colorway.