“Red” Scarf

It was a grueling work weekend, but here and there I’ve been able to make good progress on my “red” scarf for the Orphan Foundation of America.  I’ve chosen a plum colored yarn instead of red to make a scarf for a young person who has moved out of the foster care system into independence [...]

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Bow Tucks Tote #3

Now that my sister’s birthday has passed and she has received her present from me I can show it.

I made another Bow Tucks Bag, this time in bright blues and greens.

I’m still not very good at the machine quilting, but I’m getting a little more confident with it.  What I find really difficult is deciding [...]

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All the Yarns

Today’s post will show all the yarns along with the dyestuffs used.  Keep in mind that the photos will not show the colors exactly, but they’re pretty close.
Here are the finished yarns hung on the garden fence.

These are the cochineal dyed yarns.  I forgot one when I showed them two days ago.  They are from [...]

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Watching Colors Bloom

Today I’m going to show the remaining dyebaths and tomorrow all of the yarn!
Here’s the coreopsis dyebath.  From bright yellow flowers to a gorgeous shade of “pumpkin.”  There are still lots of little buds and such in the dyebath so it looks like soup with noodles.

Here’s the Goldenrod dyebath which makes a very nice bright [...]

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Patience Pays Off

When we take the yarns out of the dyebath, we see that our patience has paid off.  The yarn is rinsed and we can see the colors come into full bloom as they dry in the air.
Rather than dyeing only with the specific dyestuffs we also added other elements to shift the colors.
Here are the [...]

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More Dyestuff

While we were waiting for the mordant to “cook” into the base yarn and the cochineal bath to do its work, Kay and I went to work cutting the blossoms off of a bag full of wild coreopsis that Jennie had collected out along the roadsides.
We set it all to soak in some water to [...]

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A Day of Dyeing

What a fun day I had Saturday spent outside Jennie’s home, which is a converted late 18th century schoolhouse, in Murfreesboro, NC.  Jennie teaches classes for The Woolery, and her home is about a block away from the shop, so we did the dyeing workshop there.
 
My new friend Kay was there, too, as we learned [...]

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Red Scarf Project

I was reading through my e-mail a little while ago and came across my regular e-newsletter from Knitting Daily.  Usually I don’t do too much with these except check out what’s new.  
But today something really caught my attention.  It’s the Red Scarf Project for OFA (the Orphan Foundation of America).  This organization provides scholarships [...]

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On Getting Behind and Looking Forward

I have no fiber pictures to show today because I haven’t carved out the space to do any fiber work in the last twenty four hours, except to do some more knitting on the Pomatomus socks, and they don’t look much different from yesterday.
However, I’ve been reflecting on how it is becoming more and more [...]

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Emerging Scales

I didn’t get any fiber work done today; at least not yet.  I spent the day in Richmond learning more about how to use my MacBook Pro.  There are so many neat things that can be done with it, that it’s hard to know where to start.  I had a session on setting up a [...]

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