Techniques, and working with naturally dyed fiber
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
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
I get to share about sock spins today! This spin started as a bundle of undyed mystery wool, which I dyed in two different analogous-esque colourways. I spun the black-bean dyed very light-colored wool first, but I’ll come back to that later. For the bubblegum-colored food-coloring-dyed yarn, I wanted to try something different structurally. So … More SCS: Analogous: Bubblegum
I couldn’t stand waiting for my analogous braids to arrive, so I took matters into my own hands. I did what I haven’t done in some years: I dyed some fiber. I had a random top from a local friend who is rather giving up spinning. This will make you cringe, but I had actually … More SCS: Analogous-Adjacent Dyeing
You know how they say, when you have little kids, “The days are long, but the years are short”? This month, the days have been short, but the month has been long. Partly because it’s been in the -30s with windchills in the -50s pretty much all month. Partly because most of the month was … More January 2022 Round Up: Lockdown
My second weaving project is done! In this episode I focus on my planning process, going from a color gamp sample to finished pillows. The stripes appear random, but they are actually the name of our new home in Morse Code. The blue background says “Kangi&iniq,” the Inuktitut name for Rankin Inlet, and the purple … More A Priest Crafts: S2 Episode 2: Morse Code Thanks
If you don’t care about yarn, scroll to the bottom for the punchline. I’ll save you the time. After a serious push, my 4-ply gradient cable yarn is done. The final moments of the second set of two-plies: Four beautiful balls of two-ply gradient, that I couldn’t stop staring at (at least, for the five … More Scroll Down for News
We are at EDD +4 today. Surprisingly, my calm increases as the days pass, as the inevitability of little Pat’s birth draws comfortingly closer, and as pre-labor progresses at its own impossibly slow rate. I think, with N, I just didn’t have time to get this uncomfortable. She was breech until 39 weeks, so I … More Progress, Slow but Sure
It’s the feast of the Annunciation today. I’m still pregnant, though who knows if I will still be pregnant by the end of the day. Yesterday, our due date, came and went without much fanfare. I did find out I’ve been accepted as a postulant for ordination in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh – a … More Still Spinning My Wheels – Proverbially and Figuratively
I have been working on the same spinning project for over two years now. It all started with this grand plan, associated with the Lothlorien cape designed by Susan Pandorf. I loved the gradient the sample was made in, but I did not want to pay out the nose for the yarn suggested. (Over two … More The Long Spin
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