Dyeing

The Countdown is on …

Well, it’s only a few weeks to go now for the first episode of It Takes Balls To Knit – The Show to be released. As a matter of fact, I was just on the Sunshine Coast in beautiful Pender Harbour filming a segment for Dyeing To Knit You with Jenna Valley of Everlea Yarn! We had a great time filming and I learned a lot!! So much so, that I’ll be doing a return trip soon to film a second and possibly third segment. Turns out Indigo dyeing is an entirely different process to acid or natural dyeing! […]

Color me wowed!!

Have you ever seen “Clown Barf”? It’s kinda funny! No, really, it is! Have you ever knit with it? No, it’s not some new fiber developed by the knitting community. Although, it’s creators certainly have the intelligence and background to probably do that! Well, thanks to Nicole and Cordula, (Kalessin and Haramis17 on Ravelry – follow the links to see some of their great works and designs), you can if you want to! And it’s actually much more pleasant than it sounds. Click on this picture to see how. It’s a merino/silk/cashmere lace weight yarn from DyeForWool.   Clown […]

Inspirational Wonderment!

The variety that exists in our industry is second to none. Even if we restrict this discussion to just knitting, I could go on endlessly on all the facets there are. To get a small example of this, you need only go to Ravelry and see how many little sects there are. The last time I was there, it was over 35,000 groups. And this is just on Ravelry! Yes, I am aware that there are overlaps, but needless to say, if you have a particular niche that you want to explore, you can probably find someone else like […]

Show me your GREEN BALLS! (No, not you HULK!)

Happy St. Patrick’s day everybody! You’ll notice that my site is green to commemorate the day.  Even though I’m not Irish, I’ll take any excuse I can find to drink – even if it’s green beer. I’m not much of a beer drinker myself, but I don’t think I could bring myself to dye my rum green. So I’ll be going out a little later for some green beer and wings.In the meantime, for St. Patrick’s Day, check through your stash and pull out some yarn – but it has to be GREEN! Believe it or not, the only […]

Dyeing and loving it!

Well, I have to say, if I had gotten these kind of results the first time I tried dyeing, I’d have done lots more of it by now. The green and yellow have come out well and I’ll be doing the black later today. I am fairly certain that it will work out too. I will do it using the simmer method as that seems to work the best. On my way home earlier, I stopped at the store and got some unsweetened Kool-Aid. There is a really good page online right here that gives excellent instructions on dyeing […]