No, the above photo is not spaghetti with some weird tomato. That’s yarn in a pot of dye. Results coming up later in the post.
Ginni came over yesterday and we dyed yarn all afternoon. I wanted to try some natural dyes and she wanted to come along. I had never tried natural dyes before and [...]
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It’s been warm this week. We’ve had a couple of summer showers, but mostly it’s been warm and sunny and beautiful. I’m so glad I’ve had this week off work and could fully enjoy it! Above is a photo of Utrecht, taken Tuesday night. It was MUGGY and warm that evening but still it just [...] The above photo was taken yesterday afternoon, and shows my hand painting set up for my 1 skein of yarn. I was going to put the best photo of the effect on the top here, but that would spoil the surprise, wouldn’t it?! You’ll have to look through the whole blog post to get to [...] As some of you might know, I was busy sewing stuff before heading off to California in October. Back in June we went to Paris and in between being sick as dogs, we managed to get to a fabric store where I bought some PERFECT white silk fabric. Above you can see what I did [...] I was lurking on Ravelry, on a dyer’s forum called “Love to Dye“, when I came across a topic about self striping yarn. Eunny Jang has a fantastic “how to” on her web site which will explain how to dye yarn like the above, which turns into this when you knit socks from it: Remember the yellow mystery socks? The ones that were ruined in the rain? Not any more! Today I dyed them this color. It’s a dark grey. Someone on Ravelry said that the solution of over-dyeing was a great one because you get dark socks without the eye strain of knitting dark wool in winter. Exactly! There is no iKnit on Sunday so the Knitting Gang of Four took ourselves to the Victoria and Albert Museum. I’d never been there before but C. has been there several times and took us right where we wanted to go: the lace. Here’s the post where I show you what I bought. I hope it’s not too disappointing! I’m going to the U.S. in October and I’ll have yarn shopping opportunities there, so I didn’t see the point in spending a lot of money on expensive European yarn. But a few things just spoke to me…. This is [...] This was my first year at iKnit London and I didn’t really know what to expect. I have also never taken a class at an event like this and I signed up for 3 of them at iKnit. So, what was it like? Ishbel is a small (or large) lace project that took me exactly 2 weeks to make. It was my train project for the last 2 weeks, which meant that I only worked on it on the train (or at SnB Monday night) and finished the last row at home this last Friday night. Although the [...] |
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