Category Archives: Clubs

I thought I’d give you a peek into the process of choosing the colors for this month’s Tiger Club.  Sometimes I already have something in mind, but for this month I looked around for inspiration.  Always a good thing to … Continue reading →

For June, I originally went looking for pictures of English cottage gardens…..you know, the lovely jumble of blooms against tan or grey of the building.  It turned out that the pictures were too jumbled….and too similar to a few colors … Continue reading →

I’ve been on a big gradient kick lately, so I went looking for sunset pictures for our May Fiber and Sock Yarn Club.  This one won: So I did quite a bit of sampling and came up with gradient of … Continue reading →

Just like March was about playing colors off the natural cream of fiber and yarn, April was about playing the colors off natural white.  I chose as my inspiration a painting inspired by the water lily paintings of Claude Monet.  … Continue reading →

With all the excitement of spring and Easter and April Fool’s, I managed to forget to reveal the March Tiger Club…..and here I am dyeing for April! March’s color is one I had made accidentally in the past, and really … Continue reading →

A new wool was offered to me this fall, and I jumped at the chance to send along something different.  This Portuguese wool is in the Merino family.  It is not bred to be as fine as what we typically … Continue reading →

A newspaper article led to January’s color of the month….Pantone has released a new book, “PANTONE: The 20th Century in Color”. The whole article sparked my imagination, but this in particular caught my eye: ‘….when fashion designer and Orientalist Paul … Continue reading →

Hope you all have a lovely Holiday season!  I know I did…and part of my joy was to send off December’s Tiger Club.  I took my inspiration from some locks I purchased at Midwest Fiber and Folk Festival last June. … Continue reading →

Time for another reveal!  For November, I was still feeling seasonal, but we had a fall color already.  Then I realized that I haven’t sent anything resembling a rainbow in the year and a half of this club!  Casting about … Continue reading →