Over the weekend I finished up the last of the singles for my rainbow gradient! I took rather a lot of photos, but I’ve picked out just three for you to admire their colorfulness in their little turtle shapes. I enjoy how, when I flip them over, I can get… Read More »Six Little Turtles
I took two classes at Unravel over the weekend on Baltic knitting techniques, both taught by Aleks Byrd, a knitwear designer and illustrator with family roots in Estonia. The first was on Saturday on Baltic Braid techniques from Estonia and Latvia. I’d heard of Latvian braids before, and even did… Read More »Weekend Trip to the Baltics
This past Thursday was the start of the Farnham Malthings Unraveled Virtual Festival. I kicked it off with a class by Felicity Ford called “Sunsets & Sheep: Recolouring a Stranded Colourwork Design – Felicity Ford” which said it would build “confidence around changing the colours of a stranded colourwork design.… Read More »Sunsets, Sheep, and Shades
It has been a busy two weeks… and last weekend didn’t get me much of a leg up on this past week. That’s because it was spent getting vaccinated, and recovering from getting vaccinated. My husband and I both had our appointments for our first shots on Saturday. His was… Read More »Whew, still here
It’s been a fairly cool and rainy spring, which is OK. Northern Germany tends to stay cool well into spring, and we needed rain after a couple years of drought. But still, some days have felt more like February never quite left, than like it was late April or early… Read More »Impeccable Timing
It’s been a busy week on a number of front. I’ve had a lot of work meetings, including some later into the evening, so that’s definitely reduced my time for crafting and blogging. I have been able to get a decent amount of spinning done, and I’ll be on the… Read More »Light at the end of the Rainbow
About a week ago, I finished up TheEnablers’ Crazy Zauberball socks: I was even pretty good about getting the ends woven in and giving them a nice bath, so by the end of the weekend my husband had a fresh new pair of socks to wear. I checked my project… Read More »Him and Her Socks
I continue to make progress on my rainbow gradient. Fiber that keeps moving through the colors certainly helps keep things going! I’ve been mixing the transition pieces by hand rather than using any sort of carding or comb to do it. I have such implements, but wouldn’t want to use… Read More »Don’t eat these limes!
I continue to be delighted by my lovely bog oak spindle. Last week I reached the end of the first half of the rainbow gradient: I just love how in the photo above you can see hints of the deep raspberry yarn peeking through the brilliant blue of the last… Read More »Yarn in Production
Yesterday I started planning my next couple needle felting projects from landscape photos I have. I cut the pre-felt to size and started pulling together colors, but I realized I was short a couple of the colors I needed for both of the next two landscapes I wanted to do.… Read More »Oh right! I make the rules
