Christine Long Derks

Hi! I'm TreasureGoddess Christine, thanks for coming over to say hello! By day I'm a corporate drone, by night & weekend I'm a dying maniac creating fibery treasures to share. Come see my shop athttp://treasuregoddess.etsy.com.

I dye amazing yarn. I truly do. I'm not sure how it happened, but I have a gift for putting yarn into a pot and pulling out the most scrumptious, yummy, soft, intense colors that you just HAVE to knit up. I also use very high quality yarns as my dying base. I don't sell anything I wouldn't love to knit. I admit I often just carry around a skein and petting it because IT'S SO SOFT AND SQUOOSHY AND AWESOME!!

After creating hand dyed yarns and super colorful handspun yarns, I ran into issues when trying to knit it up, so many times the yarn was gorgeous and the projects were "meh" not that exciting. I decided to create patterns that let the handspun yarn or hand dyed yarn shine through, so the finished projects are STUNNING! I also looooooove creating techniques to knit with art yarns. SO much fun!

TreasureGoddess is a yarn company made of awesome. I have a sweet back porch dye lab and the studio is our dining room. My husband is a chemist, my kids are cheap labor and I'm a dying maniac. I'm easily distracted by pretty, squooshy, wooly things and try hard to be focused but usually am jumping about from project to project. I have amazingly supportive friends both in KC and online, who encourage me to the point of insanity. "Yes, Christine, you should TOTALLY buy massive quantities of that yarn and YES you should dye it all RIGHT NOW!" Awesomesauce!

I'm a total yarn snob. That's right. I said it. I've got cashmere tastes, but I'm also a bit of a hillbilly, which makes for an interesting combination. I have no problem with acrylic yarns or scratchy wools but believe there is a time and place for all of that. I just choose to use the softest, shimmeryiest, squooshiest merino wools, alpaca fibers, silks, bamboos and cashmeres that I can find for my Treasures. Feel free to wander through the older posts here on the blog and follow along with the yarny adventures that have brought me to where I am today.