Dyet Yarns: reuse, recycle, reinvent!

I’ve been experimenting with different types of fiber, different preparations, and using worsted and woolen spinning techniques. One great way I’ve found to try out these many different fiber options is to play with combining samples or to swap things I have plenty of (hand-dyed yarn) for things I don’t (batts!). Of course, there is [...]

Tags: batts, fiber, lessons, merino, phatfiber, roving, spinning, top, yarn

Over the Holiday season, I made quite a few gifts. This was a stash-busting project for me, and i tried to pair up remnant yarn balls that worked well together. Some of those gifts were lace shawls. After the Shawl Wars I was part of earlier in 2010, I became enamored of the Dover Castle [...]

Tags: angora, diet, gifts, Knitting, lace, shawls, stashbusting, thrift

Last year I started participating in the Phat Fiber community, which is a lovely group of fiber artisans. Every month, they release a sample box with varying types of fiber goodness inside. It lets people see and feel first-hand the products of internet fiber vendors. I have gotten a few of those sample boxes, and [...]

Tags: design, Knitting, pattern, phatfiber, spinning

It has come to my attention that I have been neglecting you. I’m sorry. You fell by the wayside during my frenzy of learning about spinning, cranking through my stash, and dyeing new yarn and fiber. I really do care about you. But check out all the cool things I was doing when I wasn’t [...]

Tags: Citron, finishing, handspun, Knitting, lace, shawl, shopping, socks, spinning, stash, wool

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 [...]