Lately I’ve been doing a bit of dyeing, something I’ve wanted to try out for quite a while. I bought a set of three little jars each of mixing primaries of Procion MX dyes to use on cotton fabric and acid dyes to use on my handspun yarn. I started out dyeing some Kona...
I am an obsessive weirdo fascinated with documenting things. A while after I started spinning, I realized it might be a good idea to keep track. There are so many variables to handspun yarn — what if I wanted to duplicate a particular yarn later and had no idea how I’d made it in...
I’ve had the Central Park Hoodie pattern — and the yarn I’d planned to make it with — for something like eight years. I absolutely adore this sweater. But I felt seriously lacking in the confidence to actually make the sweater. I wasn’t sure about size, and then my gauge swatch was wonky, and...
I got a spinning wheel recently (yay!) and have been playing with string a lot. I had a pound of undyed Polwarth top set aside for when the wheel came since I knew there’d be a bit of a learning curve even though I’ve been spinning on spindles for five years. I spun up...
