Teh Pretteez

Thanks to PrairieGarden on etsy for including some of my Lucky Day hand-dyed yarn in her Treasury!

March Madness!

Things have been super busy over here at the Bucket.  I’ve had my hands in all kinds of projects, including a bunch of goodies for the shop!  Here is a little sampling of what will be listed tonight at 5pm AZ time (click here for a nifty Time Zone Converter):

You can see more items and descriptions over on my Flickr page.  Don’t forget to add me as one of your contacts on Flickr to be notified whenever more goodies go up!

This update was inspired by the greens of March, including one of my new favorite stones: Green Amber.  It’s a gorgeous olivey green with glints of greenish gold captured inside.  How interesting to see how different fibers and yarns took the colorway!  They all seemed to create their own interpretation…

Another fun thing in this update is my Irish Eyes colorway, and when I say “my” Irish Eyes colorway I really mean it – this colorway is exactly the color of my eyes (as seen in my mirror in my bathroom anyway…I make no claims as to how they appear under different lighting, haha!).  I’ve always said my eyes were “blue-ish”, but in reality they are light sage, with pale yellow layers.  Who’da thunk it??  I’d always worn contacts with that blue tint to them so you can find them if they fall, and what a difference just that bit of tint can make on light eyes. 

Happy March everyone; see you at the update tonight!  :)

To Billy, With Love

There will be a Billy Joel Lyrical Edition update in the shop tonight at 6pm Arizona time.  These 6 colorways are are based on lyrics from BJ love songs, and there will be fiber and handspun.  Check out my Flickr page for sneak peeks.

Clever Conversation

just a couple things…

about recent t.v.

BSG: 

  

Could not have happened soon enough.

24:

I know JB is all attitude and pain, but this guy…

is trumping him big time.  Go, Tony, go!!

Come Together

Are you on Ravelry?  Come on over and join the new Gherkin’s Bucket group!  I’ll be dishing out all the scoop on all that goes on in the shop.  Find out about sales, promotions, new items and colorways, and discuss my patterns.  I realize that this blog may not be the most conducive place to try to tackle all those things, as well as converse with all of you about them, so the group was born.  I look forward to chatting with all you yarn & fiber lovers out there!

Don’t forget the Vamp Camp Collection update in the shop on Sunday, January 18th at 5pm Arizona time.  :)

Vamp Camp Collection

For those of you in the Love Bites Swap group on Ravelry, you can now view the Vamp Camp Collection yarns on my Flickr page.

For those of you NOT in the group…you can still go see the yarns, but you can’t have any until January 18th when they are released to the etsy shop.  ;)

Vamp Camp Collection Fiber Teaser

Who, me??

Be MIA for two months?  Never!

Ok, well maybe.  Sorry ’bout that…

I could write a big, long explanation about being busy and sick and on vacation, but how about I just have a shop update instead?  Yeah, I thought that would be better too.

So tomorrow, January 8th at 10am Arizona time, I’m gonna put up a few yarn pretties.  Two new colorways, in two weights and three bases.  Here’s a peek:

Jeweled Spruce – Cashmere Fingering

Cinders – Smart Luxe (80/10/10 M/C/N)

Happy New Year everyone; here’s to a great 2009!  :D

In the Lime(& Violet)light

The ladies over at the Daily Chum picked Gherkin’s Bucket as their “Etsy Shop of the Day” today!  See their post here.  Thanks so much, and enjoy the sale!  :D

Worsted Superwash Merino, Casual Day colorway

Nudging Fall

It’s officially Fall, but here in Arizona it sometimes needs a little prompting…  I’m having a Fall Sale over at the shop: all fiber and yarn is 15% off!  Even if it doesn’t bring the temperatures down, it’ll still make you happy.  :)

Smartluxe, Tripped colorway

For your viewing pleasure

My little update is up, check it out here.  :)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and staying in the shade, whew, it’s a hot one out there!