Celebrating David Lynch, Trunk Show Recap, wrapping up Preorders, & Spring-o-ween weekend Plans
Things have felt a little off-kilter since the start of 2025. On January 16, the world lost my favorite filmmaker of all time: the one and only David Lynch.
While I had been keeping up with his health, knowing he was a lifelong smoker and had been diagnosed with emphysema last November, I tried to prepare myself, but even now, his passing still hits me hard and it probably always will.
Lynch’s esoteric way of thinking, his originality, his writing, his paintings——everything about him has inspired me since my late teens, when I first discovered his work in a “Trash Cinema” class in college. My professor had us watch Eraserhead, and I remember thinking, What on earth is this disturbingly confusing horror film? I’ve never seen anything like it! I was completely mesmerized.
After sharing this film viewing with my parents, they reminded me that David Lynch had been a subconscious part of my life for a lot longer than I knew:
“If you like Eraserhead, Savannah, you have to watch Twin Peaks,” my dad told me. Like most people, I was enamored with the show from the start.
Recognizing a lot of the scenery in the show, I learned that I had actually grown up very close to where Twin Peaks was filmed. Once I finished the show, my dad told me a story about how my parents had a Twin Peaks finale viewing costume party where my mom dressed as Nadine and my dad as “Killer” Bob. My mom showed me photos of when my parents had taken my sister and me on day trips to North Bend to see Snoqualmie Falls when we were very young. I was amazed to see young me in some of the same locations I recognized from the show! It felt like magic. Without even realizing it, I had been steeped in Lynch’s world for years.
It’s rare for the world to collectively agree on anything, let alone a love for one person, but seeing the outpouring of admiration for him from people all over the globe has been deeply moving.
What brings me solace is continuing to be inspired by him — letting his work, his outlooks, and his totally unique and bizarrely beautiful world shape what I create. I really look forward to sharing with you all what we have been working on to commemorate him.
♥️
On that note, right after David’s passing, I knew I wanted to dedicate some time to creating a colorway that commemorated him as a whole. “Room to Dream” is what I conjured up, and is my tribute to him. This colorway captures the ever-present dreamscape in his works and the beautifully mysterious vibe of his storytelling——
where the murky and meaningful blur together like sunlight and shadows in a smokey room.
As daunting as it felt trying to distill some of the essence of someone so layered and enigmatic into a single colorway, deep down, I knew where to start. I wanted to weave together some of the shades that linger in his films and artwork, along with colors that, to me, illustrate some of his spirit:
this colorway blends dried rose red, dusky blue slate, vintage tobacco brown, and the deep hazy gray of motorcycle grease, all drifting and intermingling together to evoke a colorway that feels both familiar and strange, like stepping into one of his worlds. 🌹🚬🦉🏍️🪵🌌💭
I debuted this colorway at the trunk show I did recently, and was so pleased to see it sell out completely! 🥲 I will be be releasing this colorway as part of a full-fledged David Lynch Collection, in the not-so-distant future, so it will soon be available to everyone, along with many other colorways inspired by a bunch of different films from his catalogue. More on that as it creeps closer…
On that note… Colin and I recently did a trunk show and launched our first yarn collection of 2025, The Substance!
The trunk show was a part of the Rose City Yarn Crawl, a Portland, city-wide yarn event, and I was invited to showcase my skeins at Ritual Dyes, one of the most anticipated stops of the crawl, on its busiest day: Saturday! 😱
To be real, I felt a little out of place, like the super nerdy girl who got asked to sit at the cool kids table. 🫣 Thankfully, the staff, other vendors, and the steady outpouring of yarn crawlers brought plenty of good vibes that helped soften my imposter syndrome.
Overall, it was a great experience, if a bit of a whirlwind. It was so cool to meet people that came out and hear and see their impressions of my yarn in person, in such a dialed-in space, along with other indie businesses.
While I’m definitely glad we did it, I’m also glad we got through it. Preparing for it was a real challenge. I/we had never prepped this much yarn for an event before, and navigating both the logistical and financial maze of the pop-up and The Substance collection, in overlapping time frames, definitely put us to the test— especially wanting to make sure we put our best foot forward without letting anyone down——lots of late nights, micro-managing spreadsheets, tallying, ordering materials, dizzying dye batch plannings, discussing what colorways to bring, what colorways to not dye too much of, how to do it all while keeping everyone’s preorders in mind. Colin’s creative planning and unwavering support has really been helping us through it all. It’s been so tough, yo! 😭
In the end it was all very worth it and the event went well. 🙌 We sold about two-thirds of what we brought and got to meet so many fiber-loving locals who now know about Savannah Rose Handmade. Our table setup let people browse freely, and I got to choose when to step in and say, “Hi! I made that!” or just quietly watch as people explored my skeins in person for the first time. #lurker!
I’m so grateful to the friends who came out to support Colin and me at such a momentous event. Big shout out to my dear friends Maddie (@by.a.thread.knits), India (@indiaashe), and Katie (@hookedwithjohnnie) and their boyfriends and husband Artem, Willie, and Andrew (and bebe Dorothea!) who braved the crowd to be there and grab a few skeins. People were lined up outside the door all day long, which felt wild to be included in. 😮🥲
As of right now, we are very close to finishing up all your amazing The Substance Preorders
As wild and educational as the trunk show was, it’s also a relief to return to our home base of fulfilling your curated preorders. It brings us a lot of joy seeing the first steps of your project schemes come to life in this little yarn-dyeing studio. Every package is a fresh look at this collection, and seeing your reactions to receiving them has really been boosting our morale while we try to catch up and recenter. ♥️
We are on schedule to have all orders out by the end of next week! Shortly after that, we’ll be having a special, spooky, spring weekend…
Yes, you’re reading it here first. 📢📰
Spring-o-ween Weekend extravaganza coming FIRST WEEKEND IN APRIL 🎃🌷
One week from today, we’ll be celebrating halfway to Halloween with…
Flash Pre-order of Two Comeback Colorways 💖👻
These fit right into the Spring-o-ween theme, to help us spooky-loving folks scratch that pre-Halloween itch (turnaround time will be pretty quick on these)
Spring-o-ween Surprise Packs 💐⁉️
Affordably-priced, two-skein mystery packs that feature a pretty wild variety of past colorways, deep cuts from the SRH archive, cool one-offs, and fun experiments — all grouped into new choose-your-scare style options
The Substance Remainders 🧪✨
In case you missed out on something that caught your eye, we’ll have a limited quantity of in-stock colorways and yarn weights available
More details on this in the coming days, but as your treat for reading this long blog, you get to know first. 😉
Spring-o-ween at Savannah Rose Handmade
Coming April 4th-7th
(Fri - MON)
Thank you all for being here and taking the time to read this. 🤭💕
If you’re feeling like it, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below!
What’s your favorite David Lynch film?
What’s been a highlight of your 2025 so far?
What projects are you planning to make with your Substance skeins?
What’s a horror movie you’re looking forward to coming out this year?
Catching the big fish
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Catching the big fish 〰️
“The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it’s a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other fish, and they’ll hook onto it. Then you’re on your way. Soon there are more and more and more fragments, and the whole thing emerges. But it starts with desire.”
David Lynch, from “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.” 💡 (I personally have the audiobook of this on CD form and am very proud of it.)
P.S. Also here’s a collage I recently made 🖤
