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Kicking Off a Kickstarter Project!

Nuri — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:26:40 +0000

With graduation looming, I’m super excited to get my creativity on again. My brain is a little bit fried (3 years of law school will do that to you), but itchy fingers want to resume drawing. Since I enjoyed my Zodiac project so much (I drew a series of 12 wetsern-zodiac-themed characters), I decided to try a follow-up collection.

During the month of May, I’m running a Kickstarter campaign to fund this project. Kickstarter is a great platform because there’s no risk for backers; if not enough people pledge to fully fund the project, no one gets charged at all. If you have any interest in art (maybe custom art for you!) or fiber arts, please check this project out!

Written In The Stars: A Collection of Visual and Fiber Art

As an addition to this project (and of course to generate publicity!) I am going to be putting together video tutorials, project updates, and possibly even some giveaways that will all be posted here. Even if you’re not interested in backing the project, I hope you’ll enjoy the new content!

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Sock Yarn Success!

Nuri — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:07:52 +0000

I have two things to report on before I go off on a wild convention run this weekend. The first is that I successfully dyed four (FOUR!) batches of recycled yarn that I think will work great for socks. I used two different kinds of base yarns (two sweaters). The first is the one I wrote about in the last post. The light pink sweater that unraveled easily and smoothly ended up in 4 hanks, and I dyed two of them (for me! Yarn for ME!). Here’s how they came out, with a hank of the original pink color for comparison:

The first is a medium blue color with speckles of purple. After dyeing the yarn the base blue color, I dripped some extra dye over the hank and let the colors break on the yarn. It gave me quite a nice effect! I can’t wait to see how it knits up. I dyed this specifically with Wendy D. Johnson’s Rivulets Socks in mind.

The second is a coral-orange semisolid that I love. I haven’t decided what sock pattern to make with it yet. I’m sure I’ll get some inspiration somewhere.

In the mean time, check out what I’ve been doing with the other batch of sock yarn I dyed!

This was just going to be a swatch, but the yarn was so soft and pretty that it just sort of turned into a sock. And…It turned out to be self-striping! I LOVE how this yarn turned out. It is an incredibly soft wool/angora blend, and it has 10% nylon for durability. I have 2 more skeins of this color and 2 skeins in a different colorway (purple and gold). They’ll be up in the Etsy store at some point.

I have decided that 75 g is the perfect amount of sock yarn for me. The sock pictured above took less than 35 g of yarn. I am curious as to how much yarn other people have left over from a 100 g skein when they knit socks. Are we wasting 25 g of yarn when we make regular-sized socks? Obviously cables will use more yarn and lace may use a little less, depending on the pattern.

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Orange and Blue!

Nuri — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:16:09 +0000

The Fire In The Sky colorway is officially launched! I love the way these colors mix. This colorway has long runs of blue and orange separated by brief spurts of purple. I’m not usually a huge fan of the blue/orange combination, but I think this time it came out perfect!

My original inspiration for this colorway was the wildfires that have been raging all around the world. Some of my friends in California and Australia have been affected, and there was recently a big fire in South Carolina that hit pretty close to home. My undergraduate education was in Forest Management, and we spent a decent chunk of time on fire management and control. Seeing flames jump into the canopy of a forest and flare up against the sky is both beautiful and terrifying. I don’t think this yarn is going to be terrifying (at least I hope not!), so we’ll see if we can stick to beautiful.

(Click to go to the Etsy Listing)

The 4 skeins I posted are dyed on 100% Merino Wool and washed in Kookaburra Wool Wash with tea tree oil. They smell and feel lovely!

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Fire in the Sky

Nuri — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:43:26 +0000

Here’s a picture of the yarn I dyed last week all wrapped up! This is actually the 4 skeins that I dyed all together, so it’s a pretty huge wad of yarn. It’ll be divided up individually, wrapped up prettily, and listed in the store very soon.

I love this colorway bunches! It’s going to be a permanent colorway, although I suspect the results will differ slightly from yarn to yarn depending on the sweater I use. The best part of this batch is that the yarn is incredible. It’s a pretty decent weight (haven’t measured WPI yet, but it’s at LEAST worsted) and it’s 100% soft wool that passes my cheek test. I’m still debating whether to keep a skein for myself.

This colorway was originally inspired by all the wildfires that have broken out recently. It’s amazingly scary and beautiful at the same time to see flames raging against the sky. I remember having those same feelings when I was studying fire control as part of my Forest Management major in college. A raging wildfire is one of the most terrible, frightening, and absolutely awe-inspiring things I have ever seen.

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Sock Fun

Nuri — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:29:27 +0000

It’s very liberating to be able to play with a project and not have it matter if things aren’t mapped out perfectly. The sock recipe I’m using allows me a lot of flexibility! I got bored doing ribbing, so I added in some cables. What I intended to be a peach stripe came out bright orange. Right next to an orange stripe. Oh well, who cares? I’m learning to make socks. They don’t have to be perfect! Which is good, because the stripes are quite long.

I also figured out that these are going to be WAY longer than I had originally thought. Possibly knee-highs!

Here are some pictures of my sock progress. It’s my first experience with short rows, but I found the concept pretty easy to follow. I’ve done something similar before without knowing what it was, but wrapping the stitches is new. Yay for no holes!

Started with yarn…

Made a toe!

And now it’s a sock that continues to grow…

The orange-orange threw off my color scheme a bit, but hey…it’s part of the learning process. next time I want peach, I will not use that combination of colors. For now, I have flamboyantly-colored citrus-socks!

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Lace Virgin

Nuri — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:26:40 +0000

I am knitting my very first lace project. Lace is simple, right? All you need to know is how to knit, purl, yarnover, SSK, and K2tog. It should be easy!

Oh wait…I forgot count. You have to be able to count. This is where I went horribly, horribly wrong.

For my lace project, I chose the Interlude Lace Wrap by Sharon Brown. This is a perfect stash-busting project, as it will use all of my lovely golden Lana Grossa Brillo yarn (which is discontinued and fairly rare, so there is no chance to get more). It looks simple enough, and it IS simple enough. However, I seem to have a problem with forgetting to YO after the last K2tog on a row. This wreaks all kinds of havok on the following pattern row. I re-knit various rows in the first pattern repeat for hours. It made me want to cry. Finally, yesterday I managed to do an entire pattern repeat (20 rows) without screwing it up once. Yay! Now I have 2.5 pattern repeats worth of lace knitted. Only a million more to go!

I have spent way too long on this to only have 12 inches of knitting (or at least, that is how I feel), but hey…lace!

Also, I put in a life line last night. After an entire repeat without flaws, there is no way I’m going to risk screwing it up if I have to rip back!

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