Thundersnow..

'Thundersnow' on snow..

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Wintering..

Days full of cold hikes.

New DK base dyeing.

Winter beauty.

Happy New Year

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Chipping away..

This is where I've been for the past six months.

Slowly chipping away at the Level 1 Master Weaving Homework.

There is one paper and the final project left to go and I am
dyeing the warp for that today.

It pretty much took two days to figure out how
to get a 'random' stripe pattern.

Who knew random could be so hard?

After hours of fiddling with the Fibonacci Sequence and the help 

of an on-line 'random stripe generator' I came up with something

that will work.  Six hues of the same color with all ends accounted for....check!

Also working on dyeing sample colors for a guild sheep-to-shawl warp.

Happy Sunday!

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Shop update..

"Prickly Pear" will be included in a long overdue shop update.

March 31, 2017

7 pm EST

on

Etsy.

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Out like a lion..

Savoring a bouquet of daffodils as the weather has turned cold again.

March seems to be going out like a lion.  Lots of wind and cold.  

Meet 'Sonora Blue'.. 

named after an early spring butterfly.

She's a new favorite.

Happy Monday everyone!!

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Yarn Along..

Knitting: 

Janina Kallio's beautiful shawl 'Wildheart' with a skein of

madder dyed luxe yarn .

Dyeing:

Lots of dyeing.. This is 'Gertrude'.  Inspired by my favorite

unfinished painting by Gertrude Half.

Weaving:

Finally got around to framing the tapestry woven at

the lovely Natalie Miller's weaving class last summer.

Reading:

Okay..this book is a goodie.

Loving 'The Creative Habit' by Twyla Tharp.

It has got my wheels spinning.

Happy Yarnie Wednesday!

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Joining Ginny

Shop update..

Preparing for a little shop update this evening

at 8pm EST.

Featuring:

'Blue Heron' and a play on a favorite color way 'Salt Water Taffy'.

Enjoy

: )

Acer

Acer palmatum

[ Japanese maple ]

Japanese Maple

she sits paused in morning's light

a breathless...haiku

©Albert via Allpoetry.com

(..for Ellen.. xx)

Yarn Along..

The brilliant velvety colors of

the hummingbird..

I couldn't resist knitting a skein myself..

..in a familiar pattern..

~ Antarktis ~

Pattern by Janina Kallio.

I've been eyeing up 'Orbit' too.

Happily humming along preparing for my first little festival.

Dyeing, re-skeining, labeling..

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Joining Ginny

Eggplant..

My version of eggplant parmesan..

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..Hydrangea..

hydrangeas

pale blue in the rain

blue in the moonlight

~Masaoka Shiki

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hand dyed Falkland | hand spun sample

Yarn Along..

Hats..

I haven't had much luck with them in the past.

After talking with a friend at the guild, she was kind enough to loan me this book..

Elizabeth Zimmerman.

Need I say more?

It's like she is talking to me...

Some first hats.

The brown and pink is a hand dyed chunky hand spun.

Thanks Linda for making hats fun!

Do you have a favorite hat pattern?

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Joining Ginny..

Yarn Along..

This week I have been working on dying "similar" color ways.

While the colors are similar, the dye still finds its own path to the yarn 

creating a truly unique skein of yarn.

I love that.

I am calling this

"Late August"

Couldn't resist purchasing this book.

I am feeling the need to let my fingers be free and explore.

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Joining Ginny..

Cooking..

This week has been full of tomatoes..

Chopping.

Stewing.

Cooking.

Canning.

Sauces.

Salsa.

Cooking tomatoes in the kitchen..

Cooking wool in the garage..

Brazilwood natural dye!

Experiments with color.

I couldn't find my note page on Brazilwood so I had to wing it.

Made the dye bath too strong and rinsing out has been taking a bit longer.

Loving the colors of nature..

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Joining Ginny

  

Go-to..

Ah...The Antarktis..

How I adore this pattern.

This is the third time I've knit it and it won't be the last.

It is the first thing I grab when heading out the door.

Perfect size..

Perfect drape..

Just plain cozy.

Knitting this one with a skein of my hand dyed yarn.

Had the hankering for for chartreuse and purples.

Do you have a go-to knit that you love?

~

Antarktis: by Janina Kallio

Pattern available via Ravelry

~ joining Ginny~

Colors of nature..Part 2

Classroom time at natural dye class.

Notes..

Formulas..

My nose is still in the dye books.

Labeling our treasures from the dye pot...

Everyone in the soup!

More drying.

Our true colors flying.

My superwash "spaghetti" from tossing yarn in the pots

at the end of class..

Finally a little treasured collection of all our naturally dyed samples:

"There are no accidents in nature."

~ John Muir ~

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For more visit Colors of Nature.. Part 1

 Joining Ginny for Yarn Along.  

Colors of nature.. Part 1

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mixing.

Stirring.

Simmering.

Learning how to extract the colors of nature.

Sunny breezes.

In awe of Mother Nature's colors captured on wool.

It was like a 'lab of color chemisty' with lessons taught by the

 lovely and talented Juanita Breidenbagh.

The pots would open and the group would sigh..

'Ahhh....'

Rinsing..

More drying..

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

~John Greenleaf Whittier

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Yarn Along..

Hand dyed Pile-O-Fluff..

..tucked in my bag for some Easter spinning at the cabin.

Cabin window complete with Easter bunting.

Tossed the drop spindle in my pack and hiked to our favorite spot on the river.

Sun!

River spun.

River otter and porcupine.

This fiber is part of a two ounce challenge for my spinning group.

Spin two ounces on the drop spindle and make something with it.

Cast on this week for a small shawlette..

Will post the pattern once I have a bit more done.

Library love:

Reading this to curb spring wanderlust.

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Joining Ginny..