they are!

this is the basic recipe:
rebeccamgreen.com/grammys-yell...

and I use this for the candied cherries but I make it with amarena cherries instead of maraschinos
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/diy-...

last year my mom gave me her recipe for chocolate cherry bourbon balls and they're my favorite thing to make

they're not complicated but I like to make things hard on myself so I make my own candied cherries instead of using the dry ones that go in fruitcake.

ohmigosh this is so fun. it's like an underwater candy store 🍭

it is ice-dyed, so kind of intentional. it's always hard to predict the results, but I like the way it turned out 💙

aren't they gorgeous! they're amazing and they're handmade by a guy up in Bellingham, Washington, and the pretty woodburned ones are not widely available (unfortunately!)

but NW Yarns may have some of the plain ones in stock.
nwyarns.com/collections/...

it reminds me so much of one of your photos - I hadn't seen that before, what a funny coincidence that I have a towel just like it 😂

orange is my favorite! 🧡 it goes with all the warm colors, it goes with all the blues, it's best friends with pink, just a warm friendly sunbeam of a color.

these were a red, pink, orange and burgundy warp, with lots of leftover bobbin stripes.

these are the non-stripey windows, for comparison

they're ready to go to the cat show

(they did not go to the cat show)