This hand-dyed blue-faced leicester: weaving procrastination. I think I’ve got too much on the go. I say this because I keep starting things and working on things but nothing gets done. My new woven scarf is a prime example; I think I started it a month ago, but I only work on it once a [...]
Warped, woven, washed – but not without a bit of struggle. It was a bit of a fight to bring my first real weaving project into existence. I wound the warp onto the back beam crookedly and had to rewind it – with all the ends still in the heddles. I then finished warping – [...]
Well, it’s been awhile…and I’ve been busy but I’m not quite ready to show off my almost-finished projects. What have I been up to? Well, we had a very nice trip down the Oregon and California coasts to San Francisco. We went surfing, explored cute little towns, rode the cable car, and celebrated my birthday [...]
My dyed silk, which I wasn’t going to bother posting, except that sweet C. gave me a 50mm lens for my birthday. So of course I had to try it out. This, I like a lot.
I did some dyeing this past weekend. These are mostly merino – both the skeins and the roving. Yes, I’ve learned my lesson about throwing different fibres into the same dye pot. Actually, these went not into a dye pot but into my lovely new steamer that I picked up from Value Village for a [...]
The silk kerchief is done, just in time to make way for some new projects. I’m excited to report that I’ve started taking a weaving class at sweetgeorgia‘s studio. It’s so close to where I work, and on the way home…so how could I say no? As for the kerchief, I’m happy with the results [...]
I’m a big tweed fan. Surprisingly, I haven’t found many bloggers talking about spinning tweed. Let me clarify: I’m not talking about streaks of contrasting colour simply carded into a batt. I’m talking about those pretty little bits of complementary colours sprinkled regularly throughout the finished yarn. Nice, discrete neps. Carding and spinning up my [...]
Every time I dye I learn something new. Recently, I thought I was very clever when I cut a hank of undyed superwash yarn into little 2 gram skeins. The plan was to throw a mini-skein into every pot of dye so that I could save it as a record of my colour recipes. I [...]
Time to stop fiddling around – I’ve been devoting a bit of time to playing with fibre, thinking about spinning, and being generally bored with the things already cast on. But that’s about it. I decided I had to get moving on something. Thing is, between working full time and getting in daily nourishment and [...]
I had concluded back in February that I could neither afford nor get the time off work to attend this year’s SOAR in Sunriver, Oregon. I was okay with that until we reached the registration date a few days ago, when I suddenly felt that I might have made the wrong decision. Ah, regret. I [...]