Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Sep30
While taking Penny to a doctor’s appointment last week, we pasted an arborist pruning some eucalyptus trees. I said, “Hey! Eucalyptus is supposed to make a wonderful dye!” After Penny stopped laughing, she told me that I should go back and get some. (As if there was any doubt!) After I dropped Penny off, I [...]
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Sep29
Is anyone else offended at the idea of “National Stay at Home Week”? It all sounds good until you realize that it’s ABC’s attempt to get everyone to stay glued to the idiot box for their premier week. Sorry, I’m not going to link here. I’m not going to offer up any eyeballs to the [...]
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Sep17
Several months ago (okay, close to a year ago), I availed myself to Gudrun, of The Loomy Bin, to help me out of a mess I made with my card weaving. After she helped me sort out why the pattern wasn’t working for me (I was overthinking it), we sat down and looked at some [...]
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Sep16
Flower Hat for Iris is complete. Pattern: Flower Hat, from Knit-A-Hat by Ruth Sørensen Yarn: Kauni Effektgarn 8/2, colorway EG (foreground) and ET (background) Needles: 3.50 mm The finished hat weighs about 60 grams, with the background color weighing in just a hair more, but fairly close to 50/50. It only took less than 2-3 [...]
Sep14
Look what was in my mailbox when I returned from the South Pacific? This is a color gamp from the various silks we dyed during our natural dye workshop in Italy during May. Linda took all the skeins home and wove it into a color gamp and sent each of us a little piece to [...]
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