I am delighted to bring you this year’s Advent calendars! I’m using this artistic rendering of the Cassiopeia constellation by Beate Bachman as inspiration for the colorways: I’m offering a Yarn Advent Calendar for knitters, crocheters, and weavers. I’m also offering a Fiber Advent Calendar for spinners and felters. I’m using the Cassiopeia constellation picture… Read More Ready, Set, Advent!
This week I was inspired by a customer named Judy who reached out to me. She had just bought the Angel Wings Ponchette pattern, and she emailed me for colorway suggestions to go with it. What she really wanted was to make it look like the original here with the gradient from dark to light:… Read More Some New Colorways for the Angel Wings Ponchette Pattern
Over the years, I have interviewed quite a few amazing designers, and I thought I would take a moment this week to put links to all of them in one place so you can see what your favorite designers had to say. Here they all are: With that said, I would love to hear back… Read More A Review of Interviews
I am so excited to tell you about the new shawl pattern by Deborah Bowanko! Debbi and I have collaborated on several projects, including last year’s Advent calendar kits. Though we have never met in person, I consider her a good friend, and we visit over email frequently. Debbi is a moderator for the Never… Read More Buds and Blooms Shawl
This week I took my Knitting by the Pool Ponchette pattern and dyed up some wonderful new colorways to go with it. Let me tell you a little bit about the pattern, and then I’ll show you the colorway options for the kit. The Knitting by the Pool Ponchette is a fun and easy assigned-pooling… Read More Knitting by the Pool Ponchette Kits
This week I have some freshly dyed yarn as well as some new silk chiffon scarves to show you. I also finished dyeing the Angel Wings Ponchette kits, including a few extras. Party Like It’s 2029 Let’s start with this colorway. I dyed it for the first time in 2020 near the beginning of COVID… Read More Fresh from the Dye Pots
For this month’s Show and Tell, we actually had an even number of knit, crocheted, and woven contributions, which is really delightful–as are all of the projects. This first project was crocheted by Anne using Peacock Feathers on Stained Glass Sock. Isn’t this beautiful? She said the diagonal stripes just happened on their own. I… Read More Show and Tell
I have so many fresh-squeezed colorways to show you! I started the week with Visit to Lyme. This colorway was inspired by Jane Austen’s book Persuasion. Specifically, it was inspired by the part where all the characters go to visit the seaside town of Lyme, which marks a turning point in the book. Here is… Read More Fresh-Squeezed Yarn
This week I did something new. I created a new page on my website that shows a knit sample of most of my current colorways. A few are finished objects made by yours truly or someone else, but most are hats I knit as samples on my Addi. If you have ever looked at a… Read More A Portfolio of Colorways
A New Assigned Pooling Colorway If you have been around these parts, you may be familiar with my Monet’s Water Lilies colorway. Monet made a whole beautiful series of Water Lily paintings. I chose this one as inspiration: Here is the “regular” version of Monet’s Water Lilies on So Silky Sock: However, I have been… Read More A New Assigned Pooling Colorway, Freshly Dyed LOTR Colorways, and the Last Chance to Order an Eight Days of Easter Kit
