Well, I’m back from the vacation of pain (it was a good vacation at the beach, but my body hates me) and working on regaining my shoulder strength. I can spin very, very gently for a very short period of time or knit a few rows on something. I can type a little bit with [...]
Tags: dyeing, lace, pain, Ravelry, recovery, sick, spinning, vacation
This weekend we cleaned all the things. Well, almost all of them. We didn’t get to the bedroom because we ran out of time, but that part of the apartment is the easiest anyway; it’s air conditioned. The rest of the apartment is not, so the nice weather this weekend presented a pressing need to [...]
I dyed the last of my BFL top that I got earlier this summer. Or at least, I tried to; I was using food coloring, and trying to avoid over-acidifying the reds so they would actually stay in the fiber. Of course, this meant the dye mostly ran off the fiber and didn’t set! Grr! [...]
In honor of summer vacation, everything in the Store has FREE US SHIPPING until August 4! I will be updating frequently for the next two weeks, starting with the listing of my new “Why Shyamalan, Why?” colorways. Yeah, I love Avatar: The Last Airbender. I would have liked it to not be treated that way. [...]
For some unknown reason, I’ve been bitten by the spinning bug. Maybe I am particularly delicious. I don’t know, but whatever the reason, my fingers have been itchy for fiber lately. I was ordering yarn bases for dyeing anyway, so I threw some blue faced leicester top into the order and started playing away. The [...]
Hello World! I resurface from the depths of the murky pool that is the first year of law school and immediately wonder where I can get some undyed yarn within my shoestring budget to start production again. I won’t have the facilities I need to efficiently clean unraveled yarn up here in NY (all the [...]
Tags: bare, blank, budget, dyeing, equipment, pots, sources, yarn
There is new yarn in the store since my last post; some sock yarns and some felting yarns. Gorgeous, bright colors! They are double-dip kettle-dyed, which essentially means they were put through 2 dye baths. All of my new sock yarns so far are named after food. I wonder if I was hungry when I [...]
Tags: alpaca, cashmere, dyeing, hoarding, mistakes, moving, rant, socks, sweater, wool, yarn
I’ve been doing a whole lot of dyeing lately; I am moving on July 4, and I have to get rid of my washing machine and dryer before the move. That means I won’t have them in my new apartment, which doesn’t have a hook-up for them. This will make my dyeing a little more [...]
Tags: cashmere, dyeing, Etsy, moving, recycle, selfish, wool, yarn
Yesterday was a very slow day at work, so I got quite a bit of knitting done between that and waiting for my MMA class to begin. In fact, I stayed up late turning the heel on my second sock because I wanted to get through to the straight part of the leg. Naturally, I [...]
Tags: cotton, dyeing, frog, handmade, heel, injury, lessons, mistakes, recycle, silk, socks, stash, thrift, UFO, wool, yarn
This weekend, Wendy D. Johnson came to Charlotte and taught an awesome workshop on toe and heel techniques at one of the local yarn shops, Charlotte Yarn. I learned how to do the two things I have been really wanting to figure out; Judy’s Magic Cast On and a slip-stitch heel for toe-up socks. I [...]
Tags: celebrity, dyeing, heel, lessons, mystery, new knitters, pattern, socks, wool, yarn
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