There has been Bamboo Haiku, Free Verse Sock, Cashprose and Sonnet Sport added as well as a cute pair of earrings, don’t forget to check out the Sale section, a few skeins made their way into there.

I forgot to take a picture but I did a small sample and the browner spruce dye powder produced a slightly greener spruce while the bluer dye powder produces a bluer spruce. They were very similar but different. I’ve since mixed the powders together to get an even dye job on my next few bathes of yarn that call for spruce. We dyers run into this more than you think. One especially frustrating one is Olive, sometimes the dye powder produces a more coppery brown and sometimes it produces a more camo green.

Just thought y’all would find that interesting.

Featuring Dogen

yarn inspiration-
The unspoiled colors of a late summer night,
The wind howling through the lofty pines –
The feel of the autumn approaching;
The swaying bamboos keep resonating,
And shedding tears of dew at dawn;
Only those who exert themselves fully
Will attain the Way,
But even if you abandon all for the ancient path of meditation,
You can never forget the meaning of sadness.

And with that The Dead Poets Sock Club is closed for a while. I loved doing it and plan to open it up again in the near future!

Featuring Dogen

yarn inspiration-

In spring wind
peach blossoms
begin to come apart.
Doubts do not grow
branches and leaves.

This round features Zen Buddhist, Dogen, who is not like our typical poet, but his writing is beautiful.

This colorway, Dogen, was inspired by his writings from the Wondrous Nirvana-Mind,

Even plants and trees,
Which have no heart,
Wither with the passing days;
Beholding this,
Can anyone help but feel chagrin?

The Dead Poets Sock Club will run in 3-month rounds, featuring one poet per round. Every month around the 20th a package will be mailed to you. Every package will contain a custom colorway inspired by the current poet and his/her works as well as swag. The first package will reveal the identity of our featured poet and the second package will contain a pattern designed especially for us.

Each of the colorways and the pattern are custom created for the sock club. They will remain exclusive for 6 months (the length of the round + three months following).
This round will run from March-May. Our April designer is Laura Linneman (lala on Ravelry).
Yarn bases this round will be: our 100% superwash merino fingering, 100% superwash merino sport & our bamboo blend.

Sock Club payment must be paid in full as I am currently unable to accept payment on a monthly basis. The cost does include shipping to the USA, Canada and any international orders.
USA: $90.00, Priority mail
Canada: $95.00, 1st class international
International: $100.00, 1st class international

If you have any questions before signing up, please don’t hesitate to ask, you can PM me her eon Rav or e-mail me at info@perfectdayyarns.com

Third pkg for PDY’s Dead Poets Sock Club featuring poet John Keats.

This colorway, Mermaid Tavern, was inspired by Lines on the Mermaid Tavern by John Keats

SOULS of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host’s Canary wine?
Or are fruits of Paradise
Sweeter than those dainty pies
Of venison? O generous food!
Drest as though bold Robin Hood
Would, with his maid Marian,
Sup and bowse from horn and can.

I have heard that on a day
Mine host’s sign-board flew away,
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer’s old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story,
Said he saw you in your glory,
Underneath a new old-sign
Sipping beverage divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.

Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?