March '25: Skeins From A Hat

Were you a kid who enjoyed "Whose Line is It Anyway?" Maybe you'll know the inspiration behind March's color - the improv game "Scenes from a hat". This is a game where the audience submits written suggestions which are placed in a hat. In the case of Whose Line, the host then draws from the hat, and any of the performers (who are off-stage) may enter and develop that scene. While we're not exactly performing for you this month's color, we took some inspiration and so March's color way is called SKEINS FROM A HAT.

If you're not someone who has spent a lot of time around the theater/improv/comedy scene, Scenes From A Hat (and other improv games like it) are sort of like creative or warm up exercises. They're like journal prompts for writing - it forces you to get out of your habits to try something new, which is why we're thought it'd be fun to try for dyeing (plus, how can we resist a punny name for the colorway)?

You can picture how it happened - cards with "speckles"/"no speckles", "tonal"/"variegated", and then "3'/"4"/"5" dyes. Tobi has a goofy wizard hat he pulled dyes from. March's color: Tonal, no speckles, three dyes. Strawberry, purple pop, silver gray. What was created was Tobi's vision! 

Base:

Genny Worsted: 100g, 191 yards, 80% fine super wash merino/20% alpaca, three ply.