Quick Update!

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This is just a short post as we have been busy getting ready for Madrona. We are going to be sharing a booth there so, please visit us if you are in the Tacoma area Feb. 12th through Feb. 15th. With that in mind, we will be closing the shop on Feb. 7th to Feb 15th. Anything ordered during that time will ship when we reopen, Feb. 16th (or so, as we may need to catch our breath!).

Right now, we have 5 pairs of GothSocks newly posted and a great collection of fiber and other yarns. Please check it out!

See you all soon!

Another day, another Goth!

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After fighting our way over mudslides, swimming across flooded streets, and crawling past crumbling driveways, we made it in to the dye studio this weekend. Hurray! The result of all our efforts are some dazzling GothSocks. We played with the saturation of some our old favorites and came up some new colorways to boot! Sorry but our pics are not up to their usual snuff. Something wonky about blogger's uploader today.

Please have a look at MommyGoth pictured below. It is a new colorway. In its Etsy listing we describe it thusly - "The color portion of this skein is a sweet mix of blues, pinks and yellows. And, while they sound like the tradional colors for babies, do not mistake these shades for sweet innocents. These hues are light but come on strong. A perfect choice for the Goth mom or mother-to-be. Forget-me-not blues blend with lemony yellows and blushing pinks to create accent shades of peach and lavender. Bright as a freshly pinched cheek!"

This is Nereid, a magickal mix of sea greens, blues and hints of kelpy green and gold. A little like Old Gregg's hair!

This is a new version of our Elegant Gothic Lolita. We lowered the intensity for this one, a subtle harmony of lilacs, lavenders, and berry pinks. Is that a hint of wisteria blossoms in the air?

This is our most recent version of DitzyGoth. This one is more intense than usual and we LOVE the results. It is an even dizzier rainbow of purple, turquoise, green, red and pink.Next, have a look at the latest release of Steampunk. We dialed up the color again and got an even more sophisticated orchestration of olive, rust, steel gray and deep green.

Wouldn't be a dye day without a MopeyGoth! This is a revamp of one of our originals. Softer and moodier in tones of smoky purple and heather. Perfect for visiting Whitby Abbey in the rain.

Finally, we are hosting the return of the Madam of the Midway, our Gypsygoth! Purpley magentas, creamy sandalwoods, and lighter maroons remind us of the fortune teller's tent at your favorite carnival. No cameras! No knives! No holy water!

We are cooking up plans for a fiber and a yarn club in the near future. Should we start a mailing list?

Oh, you pretty things!

Please take a look at our new line of yarns, Pretty Boys. The yarn is very similar to our Kira Kira yarns but has a titch more silk and a touch less silver. The glitter is subtle but still lovely! The yarn has a dense and silky handle. The colorways are inspired by our favorite transmen, transwomen, transvestites and drag queens from film, fiction and real life We love them!

First up is Hedwig. “How did some slip of a girly boy from communist East Berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you?” We don’t know but we are sure it has something to do with being a drop dead gorgeous bleach blonde belle laide. This skein screams unnatural blonde (in the nicest of ways) and glitters like Hedwig on stage. Yellow shimmies across this skein with smears of red lipstick and flakes of mascara. Trashy and tres chic! The deep blushing pinks, ruddy purples and burgundies in this yarn remind us of sweet little Ludovic from “Ma vie en rose,” a mesmerizingly beautiful tale of a boy who knows he is a girl. Who doesn’t want to live in Le monde de Pam?

Now, let's all cosy up to Bon Bon. “She was so glamorous that when she walked by she made everybody feel like they were in the movies.”Silvery grey and sprinkled with deep cotton candy pinks flits across this yarn, our tribute to Johnny Depp’s Bon Bon in “Before Night Falls.” His silver spangled rooster tail is echoed in the yarn’s threads of sterling silver. He got our hearts to skip a beat! Masculine and yet the epitome of feminine beauty!
We call this one Orlando after the character of the same name played by the inimitable Tilda Swinton. Olives, lodens and deep emeralds transmutate across our lightly glittering yarn. The result is rich and peerless like the doublet of this Elizabeth beauty. Eternally youthful greens call to mind his immortality and silver is there to hint at the beautiful and bold woman he will become.

“What about glitter? When I was a headliner in Paris, audiences always liked it when I sparkled.” Baby blues morph into pretty girl pinks on our lightly glittering silver yarn named for Ed “The world’s worst director” Wood’s first release, Glen or Glenda. We think this yarn asks more questions than it answers like who doesn’t want to see Johnny Depp in Angora? Glen or Glenda? Ed or Bunny? Blue or Pink? We love them both and know you will, too!


"I hereby christen this budget Barbie camper... Priscilla. Queen of the Desert!"Bright Barbie and cactus flower pinks slink across this skein inspired by one of our favorite movies. Bold and subtle colorations take turns on this yarn in a way sure to please Mitzi, Bernadette and Felicia! And like them, the subtle shine imparted by the silver looks gorgeous under the desert sun!

This one is called Breakfast on Pluto. Deeply decadent purples, berries and maroons swirl across this sparkling skein. It is fiercely feminine like Cillian Murphy’s (oh, those eyes!) IRA defeating, Chanel No. 5 wielding Kitten in the film adaptation of the novel. Perfect for breakfast anywhere!
You may be wondering what happened to the GothSocks. Well, we sold nearly all of them in less than 5 hours on Monday. Thank you, thank you! Your enthusiasm and support has blown us away. The only ones we have left are our most recent version of our VampyGoth and a new colorway we are calling CeltiGoth. Look closely and you can see how beautifully the colors change across the yarn.

Watch out for a couple more GothSocks and Pretty Boys due to be listed later this week!

New Swag!

I just had to share a pic of these new sachets we made up. We aren't selling them (currently). They are just meant to be thank you gifts for your purchases. Aren't they cool? We printed them up individually on our Gocco printer after Rainy created the image of a girl in GothSocks. I say "Wow!" everytime I see them. Plus, they are lavendar/vanilla scented.

GothSocks (at last) and Madrona announcement

First, Rainy & Wooly are proud to announce that we will be selling at the 2009 Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat. It is a great festival and we are so honored to be able to participate. The festival runs February 12th through the 15th, 2009 at the Hotel Murano, in Tacoma, Washington. Please come visit us at our booth or see Wooly in the Pavilion Rotunda where she will be the spinning mentor in the "Spinning Demonstration Booth."

Also, Rainy and Wooly were FINALLY able to get into the studio this last weekend. We spent two busy days releasing all our creative energy. Bliss! The result of our our work is a new batch of GothSocks (some in new colorways!) and lovely roving. Right now, we have the GothSocks up. We will list more items as the week progresses. Please have a look at our latest listings below.

First up is RomantiGoth. We worked hard to find the right purple for this one and we think we found it. It is a gorgeous strong purple (not violet nor maroon) which contrasts so nicely with the black.
This next one is a new colorway we are calling MaudlinGoth. We see it as a more instense version of our popular MopeyGoth. It is a moody mix of purples and berries like the wine stained lips of the darkest of Goths.
More purple in another new colorway! This one is called GypsyGoth. Perfect for the Stevie Nicks and tarot card loving Goth. You know who you are! This is a blend of deep and pale maroons spiked with pumpkin like the velvet tablecloth under your crystal ball.
We love this new colorway, one of Rainy's creations. It has the traditional black stripe followed by a beautiful color changing section that moves from a stripe of deep chocolate brown, followed by a stripe of pale mochas, moving finally in a blue amethyst stripe back out to mochas and again out to chocolate. It reminds us of amethyst geodes. Therefore, we named it Maenad for the lovers of Dionysus, the creator of amethysts. Great for pagan goths or grecogoths!
This is a another new colorway! We are calling Cthulhu Goth. It is a mix of oceanic blues and greens highlighted with sandy terracottas. It reminds us or R'lyeh, the home of Cthulhu. We think it is perfect for all you Lovecraft loving, Necromonicom reading Goths.Finally, another version of our MopeyGoth. It is our all time favorite! We have lots more to list and we will get to it as soon as we can. We hope everyone's holidays were just grand. Thanks to everyone who has supported in this our first year of business. Your encouragement and appreciation make it all the more fun. We couldn't do it without you!

Dye day turns into Snow Day

We really look forward to the days we can head into the studio. We spend all week planning new colorways and concepts for our yarn and fiber. This week was no exception but Mother Nature had other ideas. Have a look.

The Cascade Foothills east of Seattle, where our humble little workshop is, were inundated with a foot and a half of snow. There was no way for Rainy to get in and now way for Wooly to get out! A week without dyeing is like a day without knitting or spinning. Oh well. Hopefully, we will be dug out very soon (at least, before the coffee runs out) and have the studio up and steaming. Please check out the video for live snow action!

GOTHSOCKS!!!!

We've been super busy at the dye pots and just did a huge update with a ton of new gothsocks in the shop. We have romaticgoth:



and Spicygoth:



And Perkygoth:



and many many more.

Come check out the shop and all the new yarns at:

Rainy Days & Wooly Dogs

Thanks!