Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart 4: Monochrome colourwaysPart 5: Analogous colourwaysAddendum: Knitted samples I had initially skipped some of those analogous colourway experiments from chapter 3, because I ran out of Corriedale top! I ordered Polwarth from YarnCanada because it was what I … More Dye School Part 6: Warms, Cools, and Tighter Analogous Colourways

Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart 4: Monochrome colourwaysAddendum: Knitted samples The handpainting experiments continue with series 2 of Deb Menz’s experiments from chapter 3 of Color in Spinning. “Series 2 – Analogous colors. Choose four colors to paint on each roving. Do fifteen … More Dye School Part 5: Analogous Colourways

Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasAddendum: Knitted samples Welcome back to my personal record of the dyeing adventure I started back in January! I’ve now recorded a look at my learning process on the Wool Circle, which included a high-flying look at the 53 … More Dye School Part 4: Monochrome Colourways

Previous posts in this series: Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye Formulas What follows is my record of the initial results of my 48 dye formulas, as first mixed. Notes as you read this list: Yellow The yellows – particularly the dull and dark yellows – were some of the most difficult … More Dye School Part 3: Dye Formulas

Part 1: DOS Testing In dyeing samples, 1g is about as small as I could go and still have enough fiber to meaningfully measure quantities. (Professional dyers make larger dye samples.) On the flip side, if your goal in sampling is to make binder pages with small tufts of fiber, 1g is kind of a … More Dye School Part 2: Dye Recipe Approximations with Carding

When Rachel and I started looking seriously at using Color in Spinning by Deb Menz as a guide and inspiration for our Year of Colour, I became obsessed with chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is all about the basics of dyeing, and chapter 3 is all about handpainting tops (she calls them rovings) and … More Dye School Part 1: DOS Testing

For the record, I know next to nothing about trauma-informed everything. It’s a topic I’m really interested in, but I’ve read like two chapters of a Gabor Mate book one time, and I have a couple friends who know a lot about it. But I have spent a lot of this month in a state … More April 2023 Round-Up: Trauma Responses

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