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
At the beginning of February, I made a cake. Just for fun. Not for Valentine’s Day, or a birthday… just for fun. I wanted to try a chocolate cake recipe. I used the YBD vegan chocolate cake recipe. I love these vegan cake recipes because they are so impossibly easy, and the YBD ones hold … More Chocolate Cake is Delicious
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
Happy February! I am pleased to present the first installment of what I hope to be many sock yarns spun this year. As I have described extensively, the first chapter of studying color in sock spinning is all about analogous colourways. But these first few socks spins are going to be not-quite analogous. You might … More SCS-Analogous: Phoenix Rising 3-Ply
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
So, remember how I started watching cake decorating videos on Craftsy and… it kinda got out of hand? Well, we still love watching cake videos on YouTube, and the whole situation just next-leveled. I got a Kitchen Aid for my birthday. My birthday isn’t till April, but the thing was on mega post-Christmas sale, and … More Cereal and Milk and … Cake?
Studying the spinning of sock yarns, and studying spinning colours, are both pretty enormous worlds. Some people will focus more on one area than another in this study, because we are all at different places in our learnings. I am an analytical person. I like to break things down, figure out all the possibilities. Also, … More Sock Color Study: Making Study Choices
Sorry if you clicked on the link to this post before and it was broken! I spent an hour on this post this morning, posted it, and then the internet ate it. Here’s a new attempt. Analogous colourways come from neighbors on the color wheel. They’re next to each other: like red, red-orange, and orange. … More Sock Color Study: What is Analogous?
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
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