Dyet Yarns: reuse, recycle, reinvent!

There is a Dyet Yarns Ravelry group now. Shop updates and new giveaways will be announced there, so you Ravelers can keep track. Check it out! If you don’t know about/aren’t on Ravelry, it’s a social network and database community for fiber fiends of all kinds. There are forums and groups as well as a [...]

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 [...]

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

…in announcing why I have been absent for two weeks! I am moving from North Carolina to New York this year so that I can attend law school. Yes, they have law schools in North Carolina, but not the one I wanted to go to. So I am moving. Moving 12 hours away from your [...]

Tags: conventions, geek, job, moving, Organization

Going through some nooks and crannies, I found this free-form scarflett-ish-thingy with outrageous fringe that I never figured out what to do with. I guess I can put some buttons on it and make it into a neck wrap! By buttons, of course, I mean large beads. Once I sew these puppies in with some [...]

Tags: creativity, diet, handmade, mystery, stash, UFO, wool, wtf, yarn

So, I’m doing the thing that everyone says you shouldn’t do. I’m making a sweater out of Alpaca. See the thing is that I love soft, bulky yarn. Alpaca is wonderfully soft. Not terribly elastic, so not great for a sweater with elaborate designs, but this one is plain stockinette with stripes. Of course that [...]

Tags: alpaca, clapotis, diet, geek, lessons, needles, new knitters, Organization, pattern, selfish, stash, sweater, yarn

Today I photographed all of the additional yarn I have gotten since my last adventure with my Ravelry stash. (I’m CandyCornStudios on Ravelry, in case you were wondering.) WOW. Most of this is stuff I picked up from my mother. Much of it is unlabeled, which is kind of a pain. However, I’m putting in [...]

Tags: diet, labels, mystery, Organization, Ravelry, stash, yarn