While I will admit, I’ve taken mine in the direction of fancy, a fiber garden doesn’t require a lot of space. And it doesn’t have to adhere to a grid layout. In fact, my standard advice applies here. Experiment. I live in zone 6 and in my garden I’ve got cotton, flax, madder, onion, turmeric,
I just finished another crochet project, the Hotel of Bees Shawl by Christina Hadderingh. This shawl has a lot of beautiful details, but I’ll warn you, it is a bit of a tricky pattern because of the decreases on each row. Still, it makes a deliciously complex finished object. Instead of following the color changes,
Happy Friday, friends! Today is the last Friday of Tour de Fleece! Just a few more days left to spin. Check out the awesome projects that some of team Do it Yourself and Dye’s members made this week! This week’s theme was all about texture! meralgia made some lovely cabled yarn. She started off
During week two of Tour de Fleece for team Do it Yourself and Dye, we had some beautiful yarns come from our challenges! This week, we dyed tonal yarns, continued our mohair challenge, and worked on thick & thin yarns. arealasset created a beautiful blue tonal yarn for the tonal challenge.
As part of team Do it Yourself and Dye (DiY&Dye), I am always excited to share what the team is working on. During Tour de Fleece, we usually have a range of team challenges. For the first week, two of our challenges were to use a team set of colors (teal, purple, grey) and to
Just as there is a long tradition of naming ships, astronomical bodies, and offspring, so to is there a tradition of naming fiber arts tools. A spinning wheel, spindle, drum carder, or loom can be a big investment. By naming our tools, we pay homage to the work that the tool can do for us,
Knitting in the Heartland is a knitting conference held in Kansas City biennially. This is a local conference that focuses on connecting knitters from across the midwest. Hosted by the Sunflower Knitters Guild, the organizers bring in a mixture of local and internationally recognized teachers focused primarily on knitting with a little bit of crochet
During PlyAway, I was the lucky winner of DM Fibers‘ wheel giveaway. I was blown away! Thank you to DM Fibers and to Louet, I brought home a brand new Louet S17 wheel. The S17 is very close to their S10, but comes unfinished, ready for the creative artist to decorate. It didn’t take
We talked tech about naming sheep. Let’s talk shop about naming colorways. How does a fiber artist name their colorways and how does it impact their sales? Amavelwynd, another fiber artist and live streamer, has some great fiber names and I asked her where she gets her inspiration. She asks her audience to
I had lofty plans to update the blog everyday this week, but sixteen hour days got the better of me. Wednesday I learned about teaching and wool structure. Abby Franquemont is one of my favorite teachers and that continued to be true in her class on teaching. She’s full of all the best snark, but
