Have spent the past two days dyeing non-stop. Seventy plus hanks of yarn dyed. Yes, seventy. Seven-zero, 70. If you count the past four days, the total is just over 90.
Really and truly, that is a lot of yarn. And a lot of work. And a lot of dye.
Exhaustion aside, I’ve loved every minute of [...]
At the end of the day, what matters most isn’t the felted yarn in the closet. It’s not what I didn’t get done, or that my hands are nearly every shade between blue and red, with a bit of green for good luck. It doesn’t bother me that my nails are quick-short, with remnants of [...]
With all the yarn and dye and blogging business that goes on, sometimes it’s easy to forget those little important moments, the ones that bring tears to your eyes when, years later, you look at your mental snapshots.
I had one of those moments today. Someone asked me to teach them to knit. But not [...]
I’ve got a lot of little odd things I’m afraid of. Pool drains and pool lights, for starters… and I was a competitive swimmer clear until college. I’m not so fond of bridges or being suspended from heights by cords or cables either. You won’t find me bungee jumping. Or sky diving. Or on most [...]
You would think that the most time consuming part of hand dyeing yarn would be dyeing the yarn. Mixing and applying the dye to aforementioned yarn, in theory should take a good chunk of time, and for me it does. But the amount of time spent actually dyeing the yarn pales in comparison to the [...]