We’ve made it to the final section of the Skep blanket, and it’s a big one! Pinks and purples take up a corner and most of a side of this blanket, and we’ll be covering twelve colourways today, from most saturated and minor-key to most wild. Again, unlabeled hexies below are single colourway samples. Exercise … More Skep – Purple-Pink Side
Blue is a huge corner of this blanket. According to Goethe, blue is the colour you need the least of for it to balance other colours, which is a little counterintuitive to me since it’s so ubiquitous in my wardrobe that it’s more of a background colour, a neutral. But perhaps that’s why blue came … More Skep – Blue Corner
There ended up being so many green-dominated hexies that they took up a whole side of the blanket. I wonder why this is – were the green dyes I used particularly potent on balance? Is it the amount of neon green I allowed into the mix? Is it my own subconscious love of green coming … More Skep – Green Side
This is a smaller corner – not a lot of blends really came through as yellow or orange. This is perhaps attributable to Goethe’s proportion theory – it takes a lot more yellow to really take over a colourway than the other two primaries, as loud as it can be as a pop colour. But … More Skep – Yellow Corner
Let’s crack on, shall we? In the first corner, these are colours dominated by red. I’ve mapped them out below. The hexies in this area without numbers are from samples spun from a single handdyed colourway. You can find them in this post. Below, I’ve ordered them by the most saturated, or most generally red-looking, … More Skep – Red Corner
“Dyeapalooza” of last summer was Part 1 of the exercises at the end of chapter 4 of Color in Spinning by Deb Menz. The combo spinning that resulted in the “Skep” blanket (pattern by Kate Davies), is Part 2 of those exercises. This is all from page 110 of her book. I used these exercise … More How I Spun and Knit Through Skep
After months of planning, dyeing, spinning, knitting, cataloguing, vlogging, with a finishing touch of lots of sewing, my Year of Colour project is done. 110 hexagons: 51 from samples spun from single colourways, and 59 from combo drafts of different colourways. By my somewhat rough calculation, I spun 1,881 yards of DK-weight combo drafted yarn. … More All About Skep
The fall flew by. December is always so busy. Even January had enough deadline and events to buzz past. But this month, February, finally ground to a crawl. Every December, I look forward to the deep winter. January, February, and March are just less demanding. I did the math, and on a very good week … More February 2024 Round-Up: Deep Slow Winter
You know, one day, I will finish something and post it on here, and it won’t have a super-long back story. Today is not that day. When I started spinning again, in January of 2017, I got sucked deep into the world of Instagram. Instagram is a world of marketing, and I was particularly sucked … More Solaris Vest
So for the Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs book study we’re doing over at Wool n’ Spinning, we’re offering two ways to spin along as we go through the book. You can, of course, go through the book and spin sample by sample. But not everyone is in a sampling place, so we created “Track … More Capstone Sweater: Fiber and Prep
Osborn Fiber Studio 