spinnin’ scorpio floozy

Sometimes I’m really smug about the fact that I am a Scorpio. There, I admitted it. I can be selfish. I can be dark. I can be mysterious. I like the things that your quintessential Scorpio is supposed to like. We’re quite a smug little club of dirt dwellers. Even the tattoo artist who inked [...]

forest dwellers

I’m really excited about these two skeins and kind of want to keep them all for myself.

skein the first

skein the second

They are furry creatures and I want to put them in my pocket and pet them. I think the smaller one, Number Two, would be happy in a pocket; it seems a tad shy.

Will [...]

brown plus brown plus brown equals

more brown. Pat yourself on the back, please.

My intention is to mix these browns up with the teensy green so they will become a yarn you could hang in a forest and look right at it and not see it. I’ll probably name it something silly like “Wood Elf”.

I dyed these last night (except the [...]

fibery goings-on

Somehow I forgot to mention here that I actually opened up my Etsy shop on December 1! Since then I’ve already had sales from a few different people and a custom order for more. I also recently sold some knitted hats and scarves at Outer Space’s most recent craft sale and picked up *four* custom [...]

soft as Doughboy’s belly

That’s how I would describe this Merino wool. That… and “yum”.these three were dyed in the wool before drafting and spinning:

and this was spun up before being lovingly dyed by the Corn Puppy!

fiery flowers, fiery yarn

I recharged the batteries enough to upload this one picture the camera had been holding hostage:Spot-dyeing roving in the pot and then spinning it up like that has created all these beautiful, subtle colors in the resultant yarn. It’s like looking into a fire. Still no name yet.

By the way, those red flowers in the [...]

who’s a busy bee?

Friday is wonderful stuff. It’s the only day of the week I don’t have be at work until the afternoon, so once I drop the girls off at school I have the whole morning completely to myself.

Here’s what I did this morning…

a swatch on the needles to show the knittin’ peeps that you can use [...]

dyed in the wool

Dear Small Yet Dedicated Audience,

This is why I haven’t written in two whole days; I’m sure you’ll understand…

the majority of this stuff was either twisted up, dyed or overdyed on Monday or Tuesday night:

and… let’s zoom in on my favorite…

these are handfuls of Cheviot fleece that I’ve processed from scratch! (more on that in [...]

Your Moment of Henna

Just like, an hour ago, I dyed another pot of yarn. I’m gonna call it buttered popcorn; I repeated the exact procedure from the first yellow so it would get that broken up, buttery look… then I may go back over and add just a few spots of tawny gold. Get it? The kernels.

As that [...]

Red #40: for external use only.

After the girls’ success dyeing eggs this past weekend, I figured they could help me dye some yarn, which I’ve been researching the past couple days. As much as I try to keep artificial food coloring out of their little bodies, it’s the most readily accessible and least toxic thing I can use for coloring [...]