Dyet Yarns: reuse, recycle, reinvent!

As I suspected, it is probably an injured rotator cuff. The doctors juiced me up on painkillers, and boy is that good stuff. So here are some socks! Tippy toes of my Labyrinth socks from SG Traveler (mmmmmm) Feet (yay heels!) of my On Hold socks with DiC Smooshy And last my plain ol’ sunset [...]

Tags: cherry tree hill, dream in color, projects, sanguine gryphon, socks, UFO

Knitting with one hand is hard. Over the course of the Tour de Fleece, a spinning personal challenge that runs parallel to the Tour de France, I seem to have injured my left rotator cuff with overzealous spindling. This whole cycle of obsession and injury is alarmingly common in my life, and it really needs [...]

Tags: gimp, injury, lace, projects, socks, toe up, yarn

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 [...]

After spinning some nice, fine merino on my spindle, I had two long bobbins of tiny singles. I started plying the two of them together as a 2-ply, and the yarn was just SO TINY that I decided I needed another method. I wanted a nice, smooshy yarn, so I decided to try making a [...]

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! [...]

There are a multitude of sock yarn bases out there; which ones are the best? I’ve been playing around with some new bases over the past few weeks. Here are my sock yarn conclusions! It really depends on what you want. I’ve become enamored of three new bases in particular. They’re all available in the [...]

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. [...]

Spinning with a spindle is nice and portable (and cheaper than buying a spinning wheel), but there are some problems. For instance, if it is windy, or you have a fan on, or you look at your fiber in the wrong light… the fiber you haven’t yet spun can catch in the twist of the [...]

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 [...]

Tags: dyeing, fiber, handspun, hats, spinning, wool, yarn

I will be running a knitting workshop at ConnectiCon in Hartford, CT on Saturday (July 10) evening. If you are planning to go to the con, or if you are NOW planning to go to the con since you know I will be there, come by and say hello! I will have kits for up [...]

Tags: conventions, drama, Knitting, teaching, workshop