Three New Colors, One New Collection!
These three came about while playing with dyes. The first is called Ebb and shows the blue and the green at opposite ends of the reeled hank, fading into each other. Flow has the blue and green meeting in the middle, then fading outward to the ends of the reeled [...]
Okay, so there are gobs of commercial sock yarns available in solid colors, including those from my own mill. My mill puts up their solid sock yarns in 50gram /215 yard pull skeins.
This weekend I did a large custom order of Team Colors for a customer, who also asked about matching/coordinating solids for contrast (like [...]
Okay…. So here we have the new Hadrian’s Wall:
taken from this postcard:
It appears the blue picked up both the sky blue and the reflected blue of the water. I was aiming for the lighest blue, and that’s what went onto the yarn, but in the steamer it set up quite a bit richer than I [...]
Before the specials, check out the latest iteration of the Dicey Knitting cubes:
Much nicer with the rubber stamps for marking in permanent ink. I still need to perfect my ability to center each impression, but at least the letters are mostly uniformly legible. :-) Yaaayyy..
And, speaking of which, I found a supplier who has shipped [...]
Lisa just pointed me to this picture from the Hubbell Telescope:
This Hubble image of planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55 was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on May 4, 2009. The colors represent the makeup of the various emission clouds in the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen. [...]
Well, maybe you won’t need Kevlar, but this is one seriously HOT pair of Fingering Yarns (~700 yards apiece):
I started with fuschia at one end of the reeled hank, moved to pink, then orange, golden yellow, and brillight yellow, then let the colors migrate. These were made from the same dye pots on the same [...]
Wheee! Mr. Brown just brought a box of sock yarns, so now I can re-do the failed U-Mich fan yarns, plus I just got a phone call from Oregon asking for some very special sneaky-surprizey custom dyed yarns. So sock yarns into the pre-soak bin this evening for early morning dyes in the morning. YAYYYY.
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The [...]
Okay, I showed you the other day some of the extra goodies I dyed up. Packages are waiting by the door for the mail carrier, including one of the two huge hanks of Superwash worsted wool that I showed you the other day. The mill told me that these were one-pound hanks. Well, after [...]
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Welll…yeah, but I can’t take credit. It’s all geneti…. oh wait… you mean these huge things…
hehehe. This weekend I was preparing some yarns for dyes. I enjoy dyeing, but if I’m going to dye I like to have more than just 1 or 2. Plus, I still had half a counter of leftover dyes to [...]
A couple weeks ago I was emailing back and forth with Doris, trying to plot out a project she wanted to pursue, but it called for superwash. Well, I have superwash available in solids, straight from the mill, but I wasn’t dyeing any.
And then I discovered that my mill just happened to have some pre-assembled [...]
Okay, got most of the Web site issues done, so now we can look at the Italian Ice Collection, as it stands now. Just SOME of these will be added to the regular line-up. I’m not sure I like all of them, and others just need tweaking before I’m happy. The application technique for sock [...]
ohmahgawd it is w-w-waaaarrrrm today. Oh yes, indeed, it truly is.
I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but when I went outside early this morning, it was pleasant and wonderful. This is Texas, after all, and spring lasts about 30 minutes stuck in there someplace between winter and gawdamnit’salreadysummer. I mean, shoot, [...]
(cross-posted from the other blog)
Dammit dammit dammit
So I pick up the phone and start to call in my first order with the new mill — to get the ball rolling on the Merino-based sock yarn. I was going to order 20 hanks.
The person in charge of the wholesale accounts informed me that as a [...]
Y’member way back in April (!) when I fell in love with this image of the Carina Nebula from APOD
(click me)
and I came up with this Carina Lace and
This Carina in Sport weight
It is an interesting combination of colors, and each time I do it it comes up slightly [...]
The other day, Dez asked (in the comments) about the Poolside yarns
since she is working a pair of socks from this dyelot. And she asked (jokingly, I’m sure) if I used crack for a mordant! And then Dave wanted to know how I got all those colors in there.
Well see, Dave, it’s like this: [...]
Hey…. do you remember last week when I botched the attempted “Peacock Green” and it ended up being turned into Wavy Navy? And y’member came out looking like this:
And I was thinking along, wondering what on earth one might do with this? To what in Nature might this perfectly correspond?
Well, how about [...]
this interesting picture is fairly calling out for someone to replicate into a shawl, don’t you think?
(see a bigger one here)
The cool thing is that I don’t have to dye any yarns for it. I’ve already done that! Can you image these beautiful flowers being replicated in a shawl (or skirt???) pattern in Honeydew [...]
In my daily morning scanning of onsite photos, I found this one at the Botony Picture of the Day:
It is an infrared image of a farming field in the Palouse area in Washington. I’m just amused and intrigued that it is virtually the SAME COLORS as my Glacier Lake yarn, but in a different perspective [...]
I continue to be amazed at which yarns strike a chord and others just sit on the shelf unloved and unwanted (yet). And every now and again I am further amazed to see an order comes through for a yarn I’ve forgotten, and I have to scramble around thinking, “Where did I put that one?” [...]
Wow! Is this not just absotively posilutely GORGEOUS?
It is the Chloraea Magellanica (Magellan’s Orchid), seen much larger in the link.
Oh look! I just found a close-up shot of this species. BEAUTIFUL, no?
And another!
I am thinking I could extend the skeins of laceweight yarns, which are naturally that off-white color, streak in some green-olive-ish color [...]
