Rainbow Cat-icorn Cake

Stringbean turned 9 on Thursday! And yesterday, we had a birthday party for her. Our communal obsession with cakes has taken many forms. For Stringbean, she has been working on her birthday cake design for months. We had to negotiate a bit to fit her expectations within my abilities, but in the end, we achieved … More Rainbow Cat-icorn Cake

SCS: Analogous: Bubblegum

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

Sock Color Study

OK! So, this is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. My friends Rachel and Katrina have published a book together called Unbraided. (You can get it here from Katrina’s shop.) It’s a massive study in spinning colors from hand painted braids. A while after that, Rachel self-published another book, How I … More Sock Color Study