I got so close – so magically close. I finished the first January sock but left the toe un-grafted, in case I decided to pull out the toe and do it in another color. Then I knit the second from the other end of the ball. As a result, as I ran out of yarn, … More Tracking
It is no secret that I can be rather strident in my opinions. Neither have I kept hidden my forceful opinion that multi-colored yarn ought to be reskeined before it is sold – resulting in the engineering masterpiece you saw yesterday. However, I have been gaining ambivalence on the subject as of late. While I … More To Reskein or Not?
One might think that the hardest part of being a natural dyer is, well… the actual dyeing. (I welcome any and all puns on the subject, though I defy you to come up with one I haven’t heard before.) But really, although it requires a lot of set up and some careful monitoring, dyeing is … More Automation Vacation
And I am coming down to it. I think it is in keeping with “Sock Yarn Week” to take a day to winge a little bit about my poor January socks. This is where they were on Friday: 2/3 of the way through the month and I hadn’t even turned the heel. Appalling. But nowhere … More There is a wire
True confessions: I saved my favorite of my new sock experiments for last. Being a natural dyer, my palette is somewhat more limited than someone who works with acid dyes. I am learning to broaden my horizons, but most of the time my design inspiration springs out of colors available to me; there’s not much … More Fall Inspiration
Today’s experiment is a fun box of insanity. Mom and I have been trying for several weeks now to create yarns that use all of our brightest colors together to make some wildly multi-colored yarns. I had some happy success last week with this sock yarn, which I am calling Crazy Crayons because the cheerful … More Welcome to my Lab
Fresh out of the dyepot is the first of my latest experiments: Black Walnut Brown Sock Yarn: Different immersion times and heats created the different shades of rich natural brown in these skeins. Medium-length color repeats (see bottom picture) mean that the colors will pool in a spiraling fashion around an average-sized sock leg. $22.00 … More Beautiful Brown Beastie
You know about Shark Week? Well I haven’t ever watched it, but I am borrowing the mnemonic at least to declare Sock Yarn Week! In which we talk about sock yarn and sock related issues. I have a bunch of new sock yarns to share with you, and a discussion or two to have related … More Sock Store Beta
Today I have a very special announcement to make. About fifteen years ago, my mom taught me how to knit. I don’t remember much about the experience, but I do remember graduating from making a horrid yellow barbie scarf on one of those round things with pegs to having a finished sweater on my little … More K2tog
Daniel and Joel, two well-baked babes in their mommy-made hats. (The title reference is for their dad.) The goals for our five days away were more or less accomplished. Infants were cuddled. A toddler was coralled. Basic cleaning was completed. Lots of lactation cookies were baked or frozen. And hopefully, a couple of hard-working people … More Baby, Baby, Hold Together
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