I had a dye day on Monday. Surprisingly, the only person who’s questioned my brightly-coloured hands in the days since is my son.
Tomorrow, I should be able to retrieve them from the studio and re-skein them. And then… it can all begin.
Today, I taught the first class on what I believe I’ll be calling the Seaglass Hat. Today was meant to be the only session of the class, but of my three confirmed students and two maybes, only the two maybes actually got to be there today. At least one of the others will [...]
Pattern will be coming soon. It needs a name. Suggestions, anyone?
Making this:
And turning this:
Into this:
These are both from fiber club shipments by Black Bunny Fibers. Carol does beautiful work. Her shop’s tagline is “Every skein is unique,” and that extends even to club shipments: she asks for a list of each member’s color preferences, and dyes each lot of fiber according to [...]
“There are two dogs in a cage in this room.”
My mother tried not to laugh. “Acorn, your preschool does not keep dogs in a cage.”
“Yes, they do!” He seemed not to notice her disbelief, so preoccupied was he with the troubling notion of dogs being kept in a cage. “Weird-looking dogs. [...]
In a single image, Ruth Stewart of Knitting on Impulse gives us well over 1,000 words on the tranformative power that the process of making art can wield over lives that might otherwise be drab and beige.