I’ve just finished the dye experiments that are taking me through chapter 3 of Color in Spinning by Deb Menz. I’m carefully documenting everything, taking lots of notes, but it’ll be a few months before it’s time to share that with you. But, after 53 oz of carefully controlled 1-oz exercises, I still had some … More Dye Playtime
For the last year, I’ve regaled you with the stories of the handspun socks I’ve been knitting. On Wednesday, I cast off the last pair. Two pairs were for Stringbean and are already in circulation; these eleven are to become my new sock drawer. Mostly, I have discussed the colour handling in the sock yarns … More Socks for Science
The kids were supposed to go back to school on January 3rd. But between heating fluid leaks at the school, extreme cold closures, and professional development day, the elementary school has been open a grand total of 11.5 days this month. Subtract another couple of days for illness, and the fact that I don’t make … More January 2023 Round-Up: Not Much School
As I said in yesterday’s post, the wefts I wound up at the end of 2021 started out as a big hairy audacious goal of weaving through a book. They sat for so long that I don’t care any more about finishing that goal. Now, I just want to get the warps used. So, while … More Finger-Manipulated Weaving Sampler
With my loom now set up in the playroom, I’m finding myself getting lots of weaving done. My new computer is the fastest in the house, so it’s also the best for playing computer games. We often play PC games as a family in the living room; this has migrated to the playroom. The seating … More Faux-Ikat Fabric
In my post about Halloween a few months ago, I said something offensive. There are plenty of things about Halloween that make me ambivalent. I’ll not go into them, because I do not wish to judge others for their choices in things that aren’t that important. (Unless you’re being unsafe. That’s not cool. Be safe.) … More A Halloween Retraction
I’ve now completed the 2022 Breed & Colour Study, the final B&C from the amazing Katrina of Crafty JAKs Boutique. This pound of fiber: Has become these five pairs: Am I showing off? yeaaaaah a little bit. Sorry-not-sorry. I worked really hard on these socks over the last year, and I’m over the moon with … More SCS+BCS: Wrapping Up Five Pairs
Okay you guys. This is the LAST pair of socks knit from the LAST skeins of 2022’s Breed & Colour Study project. (Although not, I’m sure, the last post about them.) I finished them in the first week or so of January, and they are gorgeous. The above skeins are spun from the below leftover … More SCS+BCS: Combo-Spun Top Socks
In this post, I demonstrate that a pair of red skeins: Has become a pair of red socks. I love how dramatically, drastically different these socks are. With an analogous colourway, the colours are not competing with each other as much as they would do in a more wildly variegated colourway. If you want to … More SCS+BCS: Orange-Red Top Socks
Hi guys, This is more of a newsy post! Backstory: Rachel at Wool n’ Spinning started an audio podcast about six years ago to go with her Youtube show. She gave it up about six months ago, but now with me joining the team, we’ve decided to start it up again. I talked her into … More Wool n’ Spinning Radio: Episode 89 (the first!)
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