March '25 YOTM: Skeins From A Hat

Were you a kid who enjoyed “Whose Line is It Anyway?” Maybe you’ll know the inspiration behind this month’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 for 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 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 thought it’d be fun to try for dyeing (plus, how can we resist a punny name for the color way)? 

Eventually, we’ll get the video up on the internet to show you how it happened, but you can picture it - cards with “speckles”/“no speckles”, “tonal”/“variegated”, and then “3”/“4”/“5” dyes. Tobi has a goofy wizard hat where he wrote down every.single.individual dye we have and put it in his wizard hat. This month’s improv yarn: Tonal, no speckles, 3 dyes: strawberry, purple pop, silver grey. What you have in your package is Tobi’s vision! We hope you like this pretty transitional color from winter to spring. 

BASES:

Genny Worsted: 100g, 191 yards, 80% superwash merino/20% alpaca
Piper Fiber: 85% Polwarth Wool/15% Tussah Silk, approximately 4oz braid of fiber for spinning, felting, etc