tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23177928950359731612023-11-16T12:50:51.832-05:00June Pryce Fiber ArtsFiber is our life.Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-1833915682290192312015-08-21T07:00:00.000-04:002015-08-27T15:15:39.585-04:00Making Displays with Cosmetic Enhancements?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A while back Jenn and I went to the most fantastic flea-market EVER. It is in Connecticut and called the White Elephant. It outside and HUGE. so much cool stuff. I found a cobblers form that they would use to put new soles on shoes and I now use it to display the sock sample for the kits! Well on that day of frenzied shopping and imagination overload, I purchase three display forms. The ones you would use in a store, plastic and hollow backed. Yeah, those. Well in my haste to score the buy, he only wanted ten buck for the three of them, I neglected to realize that they were boys or young prepubescent girls. That my friends was a goof. We sell yarn to WOMEN (and men) and a display of a gorgeous shawl on a young BOY, that was not going to work. I could have thrown them out. Nope, that's not me. So I decided to "fix" them. I'm frugal, smart and crafty, I can do this, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is Bruce. Now please, before you go snarky about not being PC, I think it took a huge amount of bravery and a fantastic support group for Bruce Jenner to do what he did. I applaud him. It does not mean I don't respect his choices if I call them Bruce and Caitlin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meet Bruce. Nice size and clean. Stands about 2 and a half feet tall and 18 inches wide. I need a WOMAN!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Must. Have. Boobies. BTW they all take after me, the right hand side boob is off, bigger, lopsided etc. Yup, more info then you needed on me, I know. I like to share.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First display I taped on the dry material, should have continued doing it this way and not applying the wetted crumpled newprint as I did later. Again, gotta worry about mould.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made my slurry of flour and water and applied the newsprint to the entire thing, front and back. Set it in the sun to dry while I started on Katherine (they can't ALL be Caitlin). It was HOT this weekend, really hot, like Tarzan couldn't stand the heat, H.O.T. Stuff dried fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost, put a butt on her. Almost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even when she is standing up her boobs looked like she was lying down. Had to fix that.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Caitlin on the Right and Katherine on the Left. Hmmmmmmm they don't look like women.... they look like teenage girls with silicone implants. But you gotta agree they are better than Bruce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow those knockers are BIG and is the left boob squished? How did that happen? Grr. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Between Katherine and Shelia I realized it was the hips that were throwing me off. So everyone headed back to the operating table to have beautiful, big, holdable hips added to their frames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much better. Here is everyone Saturday afternoon, hanging on the garden gate to dry. I should not have left them there over night. It seems that squirrels have a taste for flour and water soaked news paper and took a bite out of Katherine's hip. The cheek (ha ha get it?) of some animals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, that is my glass of wine with ICE in it. I did say it was hot right? Next step once they were dry was to add the pretty paper on top. Half and half water and white glue as the adhesive/glaze. I used 5 different papers and cut them into the same size squares. Wanted a quilt like look to them. All three are in shades of black and white. Hopefully it will allow the samples to show off their colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now to figure out how to hang them above the sales panels at the shows and I'm all set. They could also be attached to shepherds crooks and planted in a pot of sand to help them stand.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We shall see what happens to the ladies next....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm gonna try something new. Something that will hopefully help me post to the blog more. I have a lovely friend Cassie, who is helping us to increase our social media presence. As those of you who have purchased our stuff know, our yarns ROCK! Well it seams that the whole world does not know that (yet) and in order for the whole world to know we need to Tweet, FB, Instagram, Blog, Ravelry yadda yadda yadda more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each Tuesday I will I'm gonna post some pics about what I've learned that past week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I've tried to copy Malabrigo, not the colors exactly but the way the skeins look.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm using a technique that I found on You Tube. Light Brown Hare was able to give me some insight into the unlimited ways to dye yarn and get different results. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out her video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAPn2WT4lJg</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the way Ziggy Stardust (skeins on the bottom) is born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Lovely mottling and lots and lots of color interaction. This is actually a glazing technique with the added surprise of wrapping up the yarns as a resist. Pretty huh? The picture can't capture all of the blends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK we start with 3 skeins of 400 yards. For this photo montage I've used my Saunderstown base. Superwash Merino, Cashmere and nylon, super soft and take the dyes very well. I've begun to heat the roaster with water and a half tablespoon of citric acid. The base of Ziggy, like any good baby, is pink. Not any pink but Pink Orchid. 1 Tablespoon of dye and let the UNWRAPPED skeins swim. I didn't mix or play with the yarns, I wanted a very mottled base, some lighter and some darker areas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is how they looked loosely wrapped up and ready for the next dyebath. If I don't want much migration or seepage of the dye I would give the skeins a much tighter twisting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First bath is Electric Violet. I let them swim wrapped up and mabie half way thru will roll them around a bit. Just before the dye has complete exhausted, I gently open the ends up a bit. I do not open the skein all the way, just try to release any extra tension.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can tell that the dye mixture will break blue, sucking up the pinky purples first. The base of the mix is an electric blue and it lends a pale hue to the newly opened skeins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see after the first bath the pink base, where the purple struck and then the paler blues that happened after opening the skeins up to the un-exhausted dye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skeins are drained (and cooled a bit so I can handle them) then re-skeined loosely, getting ready for the next bath. Next layer of color is a bright yellow. The exposed purples begin to turn brown, the blues turn a great green, and the pinks go orange. Any yarn that was very pale pink or white are not a bright yellow. Opened toward the end of the dye, again to get those lighter hues and paler mixes going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even now its a cool looking skein of yarn. Time to drain, cool, re-skein and get ready for the next bath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yum! If I stopped right now I'd call it "Monet's Water Garden".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deep browns and greens, dark eggplant. the greens that were here from the last bath are now beginning to muddy and look earthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last bath is Copper. A heavy bright orange and chestnut mix. Sounds a wee bit odd I know but I really wanted the colors to lean darker, dirtyer, earthyer. My colors tend to be bright and clean and I wanted to work outside of my comfort zone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it worked! Viola! Ziggy Stardust is born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deep rich multi-layered coloring for a killer variegated skein! If I do say so myself. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed my newest technique, I sure do! Keep an eye out in the shop, these babies will be going in as a Limited Edition and will not be around for long. If you would like some of your own Ziggy Stardusts all you have to do is ask. I LOVE custom orders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me bring you up to speed. Quit a stressful job with Doctor to run a business hand dyeing yarns and fibers. Great right? Right!?! There was so much I wasn't able <b><u>to do</u></b> while at a day job, now I can. Right!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK back to blogging (one of my To-Do's).....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meet Babylon Nights:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magenta to Black - on Merino Tencel it looks a bit more Charcoal, tough to get a true black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty Sexy Huh? I've been doing a lot with this colorway, I'm in lust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NOLAN is back in the shop. I'll be posting a DYED TO ORDER for this colorway and you will be able to pick a DK or Fingering base. Sweet! Hoping for time to work on a nice coordinating color. Deep blue-black?? Spring green? Burnt Orange? Hmmmmmm.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome our newest base a SINGLE PLY (love them!!) of 100% Superwash Merino. OMGoodness is this soft. It looks and feels like silk. I'm calling the line "Seaside Singles"......what ya think? I have the Plum Panda, Saunderstown and Beavertail (all beachy places in RI). Oh damn another Hmmmmmmmm. That's me thinking if you haven't gotten that yet. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost forgot this is also a new colorway, ELECTRIC RAINBOW. Looks super cool on the sock blanks too......Spoiler Alert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another new colorway and technique (!!). Its called UP A CREEK and it is being shown here on our new Seaside Singles - Still not sure I like that name.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turquoise, sprout green and aqua screams Spring!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newest product to the shop is our Sock Blanks. Now I see everyone dyeing these things. I'm putting on my gradients and playing with self striping at the moment. Check out <a href="http://lovetoknitri.com/">Love2Knit in East Greenwich, RI</a> for more of my unballed blanks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is WATERMELON I dyed a double strand sock blank with this long gradient and then un wound it into <b style="text-decoration: underline;">two identical balls, </b> YES! for you obsessive people who need their socks to be identical, here it is! I being one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here it is pre-pull. It's cool all you do is pull from the end and it unwinds super easy. If you pull the wrong end there is a lock stitch, flip and pull.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh! Did I forget to add that the BABYLON NIGHTS comes in a CUPCAKE!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love this!! 500 yards, 10 different color changes.... Yum</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huge excitement here. I received an e-mail from Jacey Boggs! Ply Magazine Editor!! I was asked if I wanted to dye something for an upcoming issue!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hell yes! I don't know if anyone else would be this jazzed, but I freaked. It's like working for Vogue - well at least to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I needed to dye a superlong gradient for the "Singles" issue. Pink to Wine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok had to do some researching to do the one continuous piece. Because any of you who have purchased fiber from me knows it comes in three identical pieces. Well, this was going to be a learning experience for me. And what fun it was too. You will be seeing a whole new line of fibers, one continuous piece and new techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the "WINE FLIGHT" that I sent to the spinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>* I sent along a little note to her telling her how "excited" I was about the project. Too queer? Too enthusiastic?*</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is what I came up with. I had to dye a bunch of fiber to get the correct color and mottling. yes, they will be in the shop soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are two braids, 6 ounces for the spinner and 4 ounces for the photo shoot (yes, photos of MY fiber in PLY!!!) or JIC she needed more. Super soft and squishy BFL. They match very well don't they?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not the best photo but you see the gradient and the length of the crochet'd roving. Yes, that is the top of my ironing board......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>FYI: I do clubs so I can think up new colorways and test out new techniques. My lovely, crazy knitter friend, Lia has purchased many clubs and now I really have to stretch myself to come up with something I haven't already done for her. So.........</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is April's "Outlander Mini Club" order. The green end is called Low Kings and the gold end is called High Kings. This is two mini sets 1200 yards total, the cool thing is they flow flawlessly from one to another. With this new technique I could just keep the colors going and going and going. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sooooo happy with it.</span><br />
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Well as you know I've been working at JPFA full-time since August and to be honest it has taken a bit of mental restructuring on my part. My work space had to change as well. As most of you know my "Studio" was once the family/TV room down in the basement. When we started four years ago I was given a small space at the back of the room, This is where I took pictures, skeined off yarns and prepared the sales for shipping. <br />
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I was then able to push the "family" space back some and add in another table. This worked very well for a good while. it looked like crap and if we had anyone over for movies or one of the boys had a party, I had to package up and store away all of the equipment and bins of product. <br />
Got tedious, FAST. Especially if I was in the middle of a wholesale order.<br />
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So my family decided.....yea well it was more like they got tired of me whining when I had to clean up my projects......that the entire basement should be left to the "cellar dweller". Smart guys.<br />
So the TV went upstairs to the front room. Yes, we have a room upstairs that we NEVER used, there was no hardship for them to move, believe me. The sofa from the basement went up into the boys "common room" on the third floor. Yes another area where the family and friends can congregate!<br />
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I know it looks a bit weird, but when we moved in this space was a *gasp* WORKSHOP. And the guy had a gas stove in the corner on that raised platform. Well when we made it into a family room the gas stove went first. It's not like it worked or anything and we had plans for a wood stove. We figured it was too much of a pain in the ass to break out the brick platform the stove had been on, so we just rugged over it. It made a nice place for bean bags and such for the boys to flopp, while we watched the boob tube.<br />
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Now that raised space is my office.<br />
I've only put in pictures of when it first went in because believe me, it is NOT that clean now. The walls are hung with cork boards and covered in notes and lists I have to get done.<br />
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I do have a small problem fitting my trash bin, but that should be easy to fix moving forward.<br />
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The "studio" portion has different work areas and there is the "kitchen"portion that I'll get to that in a mo. This picture below is taken from the office platform. The tables are old doors with horses underneath. I wasn't sure I'd like them but after moving the room around a few times, I have grown to like the modular worktops. The first table is ball winders and the swift. I also use the sweater machine on this one. I was hoping to make my own sock blanks but it is too much of a time suck/annoyance that I will just continue to purchase them.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxJvfHWJqWB0Y7ieFtECJWFJnwWZ8m4GcOD4_YcRvRvZfd89VTcJ2lp8YGUYPihgbFwMM13l3Bo8ucfvV52hA-qB_k1ENegj822oRtVW564M_R8a6Yu6SaHDlOLAonpV6EAfe63aeNoc/s1600/_MG_4082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxJvfHWJqWB0Y7ieFtECJWFJnwWZ8m4GcOD4_YcRvRvZfd89VTcJ2lp8YGUYPihgbFwMM13l3Bo8ucfvV52hA-qB_k1ENegj822oRtVW564M_R8a6Yu6SaHDlOLAonpV6EAfe63aeNoc/s1600/_MG_4082.JPG" height="425" width="640" /></a><br />
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Table two is the skein winder that my son made me. Is that not a work of art??? Its electric and I have a foot pedal to vary the speed. I can use up to 6 cones on that bad boy. On the end of the table is my drum carder, It is not always there, I have storage space for that when not in use. My youngest on made that 2 summers ago. Yup, SPOILED!! The smaller 2 foot florescent lights will be replaced by long 4 foot jobbies that will be hung directly over the work surfaces. While the laboratory is very bright, it can get pretty dark in this side on yucky days.</div>
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That tall rack you see was once in the laboratory and now holds bins of finished product.</div>
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This is an old picture of the laboratory. When Jenn and I started this venture my MIL was redoing her kitchen and had these cabinets/sink section to give me. Hubby added the shelve to the backsplash to hold my dyes. You can see where that large rolling rack once was. It held all of the undyed supplies at that time. Now I have a wall of white cubbies. The maps were a gift from DH and we put push pins into all of the different city/state/countries that we have sold to. World Wide Baby!<br />
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The walls in the laboratory were not always white, but ugly brown paneling - think 1960's. We had a pipe burst behind that wall and had to have the entire room replaced. Whoopie!! <br />
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You can see (just barely) a stainless steel table on the left of the room with a large storage cabinet. Yea, it is a narrow space, which I find works wonders for a one-woman show like this. The cabinet is gone now, under the stairs and I hold the felting/sewing equipment in it. The table has been extended to the full length of the room.<br />
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This is the newest addition. A counter extension. I'll be able to fit 4 of the dual hot plates and you can see all of the large storage space underneath. There is a large hood that will replace the smaller one I have now to suck up and out all of the hot steamy air. Can't have mold growing in my space! <br />
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Being in the basement has its ups and downs. Its toasty warm in the winter (our wood stove is in a small room off to the side) and in the summer it is naturally cool. The only problem I see is that I NEVER see the sun.<br />
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I wonder if I can get them to build me an OUTDOOR studio too..............<br />
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Thanks for letting me share the changing studio space. Next pictures should be up when the vent is done and the tables all painted to match. <br />
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Happy crafting!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I absolutely LOVE seeing what people have done with the fiber/yarns that I have dyed. So while we were at the Knitter's Day Out Marketplace last weekend, some of the ladies who have bought rom our Etsy shop stopped off to show me what they made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, Man Jenn is gonna KILL me!!! This is her in Terraform, the Red Tibet Colorway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This is Bitterroot pattern with our Enchanted Evening Colorway. She even used BEADS!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Beautiful woman stopped by with the Spring Solstice she had knit up, but I neglected to get her photo. Bummer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Thanks for stopping by. Please come and say "Hi" and show off your FO at any of our shows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I LOVE to see them. Promise to take your photo and put it in the blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Knitting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These past few weeks of working from home have brought on all sorts of problems I did not forsee. But that is another blog post entirely. :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have found, however, that crafting is an addiction, and I have a problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While searching on Pinterest the other week, I came across an old craft of melting crayons. Yup, everyone has done it from time to time but for some reason this really tickled my fancy. I even went out and bought a heat gun because the hairdryer we own is LAME. Now if any of you have met me or my family you will know that we all have no hair. So this poor machine had sat in the closet waiting for someone with hair to dry. Believe me it has been years, since this poor thing has seen the light of day. Long story short, it would not do the job. Off to Home Depot I run and $20.00 later I have this killer little machine that gets hot! As in H.O.T. Burn the tips of my fingers hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next I scamper up stairs silently praying that I did not send the bin of old crayons home with my nephews during my last purge. After some rumaging about in the boy's catch all closet, Viola! Found!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back down into the Studio I slink, this time praying that my BC or "Business Consultant", Hubby for short, will not see me with a huge box and crayons and a brand new heatgun and ask "what?". Because remember I'm supposed to be working, you know making money to feed them. Yeah, well.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Settled at my table OCD girl kicks in. I can't work like this, these colors need to be separated, and naked for me to be able to use them. Separation begins and taking off those wrappers, not easy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 hours later I realize that you really can't tell EXACTLY what the colors are while they are in the baggies. So.......out comes the stickers and the crayons come back out of their baggies so I can document EXACTLY what is in each bloody frigging little baggie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All organized and ready to use. When I get a lunch break today. I will separate them by ROYGBIV in the bin to make it even easier to use. They are just dumped in there now and I can hear them calling to me to fix that. Violet rubbing up against yellow, that is just wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did get a chance, briefly to see if the heat gun would do the job, or if I would need to go back and upgrade to a hotter one. :} </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that I am able to make my own schedule. I have Sundays to myself, to cook or create or to goof off. This is what I did yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we go to shows our wheels are usually a large draw for kids. I came across this piece of wood in our shed. It already had a hole cut out of it and I immediately thought of this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I intend to put "feet" on the back to keep it standing upright. I am also hoping to find 2 other pieces to add to the sides. That way larger "children" can have their photos taken too. :) I had a BLAST doing this. No preconceived notions of what it needed to be or whether or not it was necessary. It was my time and supplies so I could do what I wanted. FREEDOM!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out the cute details. The subtle shading around the hooves, the detail on the ball of yarn.......:) There are two mistakes that I need to fix this afternoon during my lunch break, can you tell what they are? I find them quite obvious, but then again, I'm the one who drew them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have ever seen our business cards, we have a roving white washed in the back ground, I even copied the colors of our business card! 30,00 yards is a bit much, but how many people are going to acutally lean down to the floor to read the card?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my very patient hubby displaying just how thin the panel is. The look on his face is "really? do I have to have my picture taken with this thing??" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time I look at the panel I smile, so happy with the way it came out. Even if we don't use it, I'll enjoy it. Too bad i didn't have it done for when I nephews were here......oh the pictures we would have taken!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was also able to create this. It's MDF, about 11 x12 inches and all I did was copy the one we already had that we bought at the Christmas Tree Shop. Ours is a boring tan so I wanted to make them a bit more interesting. I have the white with black face and then a all black one. I have also 5 more that need to be finish cut so I can paint them too. I'll have a whole flock when I'm done! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No I'm not going crazy about sheep, they will be for sale when we go to shows. I can't do them thru the shop they are too heavy to ship thru the mail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Altho if you live in RI and want one I can meet up with you to deliver it. Only $20.00.!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have finally done it. I am following my dream. No. More. Day. Job. After a few harrowing months with the "Troll" aka the micro-managing office manager. I decided to cut down my stress and walk away. Phew do I feel great. I thought there would be a lot more worry. But no, I am very comfortable with my decision. The niggling idea that my eldest is about to leave for college and I need to make money to help with those expenses IS hanging about. But I think that will assist me in working harder and longer to make this work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Every Morning:</u></b> Exercise. Gotta do it, I have been growing this secretaries butt for a while now, and sitting at the desk makes me stiff. So my Hubby and I walk the dog for 3 miles every morning while it is still cool and then when we get back to the house I usually do stretching, sun salutations, to keep limber. This is done while my loving husband makes breakfast. Yup, I am spoiled rotten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Monday:</u></b> Computer work. I even DRESS for going to the office. I can't let all of those pretty work clothes go to waste because I'm working from home now can I? Today is gray heels, a gray pencil skirt and a pink button down shirt with pearl necklace and earrings. On these days I blog, check. I post on ravelry, check. I research more shows, check (very productive morning so far)! Then update etsy, post to Indie Untangled, update my spreadsheets, print lables, pay bills, order and update our banking software. There will be more but for now that seems to fill most of my day. I also upload and post new products that I dyed the week prior, but because I did NOT dye last week (nephews were up to swim) so I did not take photos on Friday. I forgive myself, it IS the first week working from home, and there will be some projects that got missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:</u></b> Studio work. Again I dress the part. It is messy, hot work so I wear stuff I don't care about getting splattered. Black or gray sweats (even in the summer, the studio is in the basement and stays cool) and then a tee-shirt or sweatshirt. Jenn gave me this cute apron when I first started and that keeps me from getting soaked. On really cold or messy days I use my old Chefs coats. On these days I clean the studio, skein off projects or custom orders, make new dyes, dye and dry pieces, and spin on my wheel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Friday:</u></b> Photos. Now this <i>sounds</i> deceptively easy, but it is not. Remember I have been productive over the last three days. There is a MOUND of dyed things. These items need to be fluffed, folded, braided, packaged and readied for their photo shoot. Every items gets at least 10 photos done, all angles and situations. And, Yes, before you ask, I DO dress the part. It is usually very flamboyant. Crazy colored clothing and jewelry, a hat or mabie some ears and a tail. Those were leftover from Halloween, bunny ears and a fluffy white tail. :) It is good to let go a bit or you will grow OLD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Saturday and Sunday:</u></b> Show days or FAMILY TIME! I can not tell you how long it has been since I have had a weekend to spend with my guys. A picnic or a walk on the beach. Just floating in the pool reading a book. Hunt thru antique/junk shops. Cook glorious creative meals WITHOUT feeling like I should be doing something else. Yea!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should tell you as I type this my youngest, Colin 16, has been in and out of the dining room where I must work this morning because of guests, chatting with my father and my husband, goofing around and making a nuisance of himself and making it VERY difficult to finish this blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This great kid decided, with a wee bit of help from me, to make a drum carder. He knew I had been drooling over what I saw on Ebay, and figured he could make one himself. Well the kid will never think that again, I tell you. Poor thing had to put it together and take it apart over three times to get it right. He also had to wait for me to get the carding cloth in to really test it. Then again, had to take it apart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FINALLY it was all done, in February!! But you do NOT hear me complaining. I have a beautiful, abeit rough, fully working drum carder. I've attached some fun and fuzzy pictures that should tempt you to spin some more. </span><br />
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<br />Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-65527252304167273132014-02-23T08:55:00.001-05:002014-02-23T08:55:55.886-05:00Sum up Sunday<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just gonna be a quick post on whats been going on around here, you know, to "sum it up".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spent the last three weeks feverishly dyeing for my recent Trunk Show at Love2Knit in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Had a great time, wonderful people and lots of fun. But I'm beat, exhausted if you will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been burning my candle at both ends with the day job and the full time dyeing. It has finally caught up to me, I am now sick. Yup, some bug found me and said "Home Sweet Home". It came on fast and refuses to leave. *sigh* It was bound to happen. So I spend my day, drinking "Emergen C" and blowing my nose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regretfully, I am unable to continue on the oh woe is me train and I have to get back to work. Those lovely ladies and gentleman at Love2Knit cleaned me out. I have to get back to work. Jenn and I are also putting together a wholesale catalogue for one or two of my LYS. So I've been working feverishly (or was that the cold?) on that. Poor Jennifer's laptop has passed on, bought the farm, kicked the bucket (you get the idea) and she had our original draft of said booklet. Bummer. Now is the desperate, if not futile attempt to rebuild it and get it ready to send by tomorrow. Yes, I'm wondering what I have been smoking too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After getting three quarters of the way thru, my DH informed me that a power point presentation board would be a better, more attractive, bet. Where was he four hours ago??? So I start again, dragging and dropping pictures and information. So far, so good. It looks beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, I need to answer questions my, very patient, accountant sent me 15 days ago. She is a saint, really. My DH is the one freaking out. We can not send our personal taxes out until I have the business ones done. Something to do with the partnership, blah, blah, blah. That's why I have Renee, I have absolutely no idea what needs to be done. It will only take some research time to answer them, but God, MORE time at the computer??? Grrrrr I want to go and dye, but nooooooooo paperwork has to be finished first. It's like being back in school, you have to do your homework before doing ANYTHING fun and interesting. I'm sitting here praying for a custom order to come in because that would take precedence to any desk work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello? Anyone? One little skein of yarn? Anyone? Darn, back to bookkeeping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's see what else to tell you.......My youngest son turns 15 tomorrow and is at this very moment at the Airsoft games in Wakefield shooting 7 of his closest friends. When they are done they will come back here for pizza and cake and a movie or two. 8 sweaty teenagers, I have to fumigate the house afterwards. Yuck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's me for right now, what's goin' on with you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Crafting</span><br />
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<br />Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-20918248760813278872014-02-22T15:08:00.001-05:002014-02-22T15:08:25.801-05:00Mawata Silk Scarve - Tutorial<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: #efede6; color: #6e7173; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">
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Today I am going to help solve that problem of what to do with the beautiful Silk Mawata or Hankies that you buy from us. Silk hankies and wool felted together make a gossamer scarf that weights almost nothing and yet provides wonderful warmth and a great spark of color!</div>
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<li>6 feet of bubble wrap that is approximately 1 foot wide</li>
<li>Twine or cotton string</li>
<li>dish soap</li>
<li>1 foam pool noodle <em>(you can cut your noodle to around 14 inches to make it easier to work with)</em></li>
<li>1 old bed sheet, towel or piece of fabric ripped to the size of your bubble wrap<em><br /></em></li>
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I started out with less than 0.5 oz of silk hankies and less than 0.75 oz of wool. The finished weight of the scarf is just shy of 1 oz. The shrinkage on this project was minimal. I lost about half an inch in width and about 1 inch in length.</div>
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First, lay out your bubble wrap on a sturdy surface. Next, carefully peel the silk hankie bundle into cobweb thin squares and lay them on the bubble wrap.</div>
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Since I wanted a scalloped edge to this scarf, I laid the sheer silk hankies at a diagonal to each other. If you want a straight edge to your scarf, lay the squares right next to each other. Now you are ready to add some more color!</div>
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In my project I wanted two colors of merino to contrast with my silk hankies. You, of course, can choose as many color combinations as you want! Lay a thin layer of each of the colors of wool over your silk hankies. Finally top with another layer of stretched silk hankies. Top your silk and wool with a piece of fabric. Sprinkle your scarf-to-be with some HOT soapy water. You want all of the wool to be damp but no puddles.</div>
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Now comes the real work. Take the foam noddle and place it at one end. Start rolling your scarf around the foam until all the bubble wrap is around the noodle. Take your twine and secure the scarf tube.</div>
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Roll up your sleeves and start applying pressure! This step works best if you are standing. Roll the scarf wrapped foam along the table by applying pressure from your forearms. This can take some time! Completely unroll your scarf and check your progress. You can remove the piece of fabric at this time. Take the noodle and rewrap from the other end of the scarf. This insures even felting. When the fiber has felted to a point where it does not move around or pull away from the scarf you can start tossing the scarf on the table to finish it off! Use it as stress relief! Spank it about until it is felted to your liking. Rinse in cool clean water and lay out to dry. To make that silk really shine, iron your dried scarf on the silk setting. Wear and enjoy!!<br />
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Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-8116362854521328942013-12-03T08:07:00.003-05:002013-12-03T08:07:51.983-05:00Felted Yarn PODS<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my newest fun project. It's super easy, quick and they come out great! I'm going to make more for the people I work with and fill them with candies or such for Christmas gifts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think knitting them up took me all of 3 hours per pod. I used our newest yarn "Wickford", it's 100% merino wool, in a bulky single. It takes the dye nicely and felts with little or no work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've included the link to the pattern I'm using. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's easy to follow, even for me. Alto I had to review my "Kids Learn to Knit" book to remember how to M1 or increase. I know, duh! I was able to figure it out and then the pod just came together by its self. I knit the first one in a soft turquoise. It's the color I'm thinking of making Jenn her felted slippers in. Shhhhhhhh </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its all soft and saggy so I stuffed it full of paper to keep it upright. You can see the stitch definition easily at this stage, its stretchy and squishy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the knit pod was finished being knit up I threw it into the larundry with our jeans like she suggested. When it came out it wasn't as felted as I wanted, so instead of starting another load of laundry, that's DH job. I threw it into a pot of boiling water with some soap. I mixed it around and took it out to throw it about and rub it together. After mabie 5 or so minutes of doing that it was felted to where I was happy. I ran around showing my entire family......like a little kid. "Look what I made!!!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I took it back down stairs, I wasn't crazy about the color. Now that I was successful, I had to find fault with it SOMEWHERE. So I put a wee amount of water back into my small kettle added some more turquoise and then sat the pod into the water. It only came up to about 2/3 high, which was perfect, the dye wicked up slightly into the lighter area at the top, but left the very top the palest original color. I just let it sit int he hot dye water until it exhausted all the dye. Now the bottom is a great dark turquoise that slowly goes off to a pale at the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sooooo sweet, you can see below how small it is. I stuffed it with paper to hold it's shape again and placed it in the woodstove room. The warm air dried it in about an hour. I removed the paper and VIOLA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now of course I just couldn't stop here, I had to try out other yarns. Uh Oh! Another addiction?? Hmmmmmm How about handspun?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This yarn is from a scarf kit that I spun but never knit. It was overspun and not a consistent thickness, I was going to let it rot in my stash. There was a gray to black on one skein and then a purple to pale pale lilac on the other. I broke the skeins apart and balled them into the same color. Or as close to it as I could get. This one starts black then I switched over to the purple. You can just barely see the change in darkness as it gets to the bottom, the bottom is really dark purple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one is larger like the above picture, I was working with the grays and felt it needed a black stripe to class it up a bit. Looks like my favorite sweater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is more handspun yarn, it has angora and angelina in the yarn but once it was felted you really can't see it. :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting bigger!! All I did was manipulate her pattern. More on top on this one before I started expanding the base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't leave it there.....I had to do MORE!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet little un-dyed pod with multi-color seed beads.....I wonder what I can do next??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WOOT another successful craft!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gonna make a TON of these, some for gifts and some to sell them in the shop. Keep an eye out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that we have our newest KAL going on I thought it would be nice to show you HOW I dye the self-striping yarns we sell in the shop. Self Striping yarns are a long drawn out process (pun intended). I have to places that I am able to set up the VERY long skeins. See the skeins for a self striping yarn are between 20 and 40 feet LONG! That allows the dye to get attached to a specific amount of yarn. It's all in the math. (God, I HATE math......) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are doing a Self Striping Knit Along in the shop. Why I agreed to that is beyond me. So as the custom orders came in from our lovely customers, I began to set up their skeins. It was a nice day but the back yard was too muddy to skein off in the graveyard (you'll see pictures later and understand it name) so I had to use the front porch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are the orders in plastic bags waiting to be filled. The cone is on a ladle, yup its a big spoon. Having the cone ride on something make it easier to get the yarn off smoothly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the front porch. I have two plant hangers on either end attached to the pillars. The Porch is 27 feet long so the entire skein is 54 feet total. I use my trusty calculator to figure out how many laps I need to take to fill an order. What you can't see is a hanging counter that I click each time I come back to that end. Ensuring I have the correct amount of laps. It is a boring job so I wear my shuffle and jam out. That counter has saved my bacon quite a few times. I do get my walking for the day in (depending on how many jobs are in my queue) because you not only skein off to dye but you un-skein onto a niddy noddy when its done. LOTS of walking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I walk back and forth and back and forth until all the yardage is walked off then I tie off where the color changes need to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of my self striping yarns are a dip dye. One one section of the yarn is "dipped" into the kettle at a time. When its done its pulled out and placed into a bucket to cool and wait for the rest of the skein to be finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't put it back on the front porch because there is shrinkage in all dyed yarns. Another hard learned lesson. The skein is now placed on the holders, I attempt to keep the strings all from tangling and twisting but that dosen't always work out so well. I spent 2 hours skeining off a yarn once when the job should have taken 30 minutes max. It's a lot like painting, prep is EVERYTHING!! Take the time to skein off and tie up properly and the un-skeining will go well. Jump the job and you get yarn barf, pretty barf, but barf just the same. I would have cut and run, and just redyed the yarn if I had not been under such a time crunch. So I took the time to untangle each and every strand. It took me so long that I ended up with a flashlight and my niddy noddy, grumbling the whole way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't see in this picture well but there is a third "holder" in the center. This keeps the yarn from stretching and keeps it off the ground. The yarn in the picture is Jenn's for the KAL. Its called Fallen, Raisin, Razzberry, Silver, Lilac and Gold. The Razzberry and the Lilac stripes will be thicker than the others. (Hopefully) Damn math....... My knitting skills are not the best yet and you need to know exactly how much yarn will be used per round to be able to work out the math correctly. I didn't know her pattern or what gauge she would be working with so I had to guess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I walk back and forth with my niddy noddy - that DH made for me out of teak, yeah he loves me - as I un-skein the dyed yarn from the holders. It takes time and more walking but it's worth it. The placing of the yarn on the niddy noddy cleans up the skein and makes it uniform again. It also brings the size down in to a manageable length. From here balling up into a cupcake is easy and quick with the swift and ball winder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually it's set up on the side yard, but that was still muddy and I needed the back porch light when the sun went down. The flashlight was for the tangles......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a picture of the side yard during the summer. Again you can't really see the center holder. Overall it's a nice walk back and forth. My neighbors think I'm a crazy pacer. Back and forth, back and forth, talking to myself the entire time. Singing actually, but my voice is so monotone I sound like I'm chanting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is about time I post something new here. You probably figured I fell off the edge of the earth. But I did not and I do have a bunch of new stuff to tell you about. Today, However, is all about my</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> FINALLY finishing the Spearmint Tea Shawl. Its beautiful, I wore it at the North Jersey Fiber Festival this past weekend. It will definately get all sorts of usage. Soft and colorful, it drapes nicely and will go with all a bunch of different outfits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course the pictures are taken on an ugly and ripped old PINK towel down in my basement but ladies, I'm proud that I even<b><u> remembered</u></b> to take the pictures before I took it off the blocking board. I was so anxious for it to be dried so I could take it with me. It was the day I was going to wear it before I wove in the ends.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The colors are just about true in these pics. Its bright and it looks like an upside down sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lace pattern at the bottom gave me a bit of troubles, but after a bit I figured out what the designer was attempting to achieve and was able to keep up the flow. It would have gone easily if I had maintained the correct stitch count in between each set, but noooooooo that would have been too simplistic. I had miscounted and was unwilling to frog out the lace yet again. yes, I said again. I frogged it a total of three times before I just said "Nope, it is what it is" and kept going, hoping no "helpful" customer would point my mistake out to me. Oh, believe me it happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next week, It's all about my newest favorite designer Toby Roxane, check her out on her website <a href="http://tobyroxanedesigns.com/">http://tobyroxanedesigns.com/</a>. Just met her at the North Jersey Fiber Festival. She is lovely and fun and very talented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lovely ladies who follow my shop have started a KAL (knit along for those of you not in the know) using my sets of mini-skeins. As most of you know I an horrible at these things. I don't know if it's my time management or ADHD but I can never seem to get them done. Refer back to the SAL/KAL blog post. I <u>still </u>haven't finished the scarf!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here we go again, the things I get talked into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have chosen to dye "Flame" on my Saunderstown Sock Line. It's a MCN base (Superwash merino, CASHMERE!!, and nylon) Yum! I've chosen the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/DyenamicDyestress/spearmint-tea" target="_blank">Spearmint Tea Shawl</a> by <span style="background-color: white;">Kateryna Golovanova. It's a simple knit, that I should be able to finish. Cross your fingers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flame! I will start with the palest color and work out to the dark red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, I'm not proud of this but I cheated......shush......stop gasping, they will hear you!! I'm a SLOW, a very slow knitter. I HAD to. Started on my birthday, just 3 days early, to get cast on and etc all set. I also had to spend a large chunk of time on the phone with Lia trying to understand what "KYOK" was. Told ya, not very good at this. But practice makes perfect, blah, blah, blah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the very beginning at the end of 4 HOURS of work on the first day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Woo Hoo! Finished the first ball and was able to start with the next yarn WITHOUT knotting them together, like I was gonna..really.......until Lia said that wasn't the way big girls knit and to suck it up and stop whining and *ah yea*....you get the idea. So second color on and knitting, after last night I am 11 whole rows into the orange. Pattern says it should only be 19 so I'm close.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK I didn't understand what all the "accomplished" knitters were talking about when they said it would be a boring knit, and they could do it in the dark and they'd have to fall on their DPN's if they knit this, but now I do. Really. The only time it actually takes my attention is to do the last three stitches. Then its back to mind less knitting or purling depending on what side I'm on. It is giving me a chance to really keep an eye on my gauge and perfect my stitches. It is also a FANTASTIC pattern to show off the wonderful dye job, so don't get me wrong I'm not complaining. I am, however, looking forward to the boarder, which looks to be a bit more detailed. (And it will be closer to being finished:)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A little while back my wonderful mom, sent me a link with a notation "what to do with the stuff that dosen't sell". At first I was sorta offended, what me? Not sell all of my lovely yarns? What was she thinking??? But then I started looking around, I had bits of yarn EVERYWHERE! Mini balls of hand spun or hand dyed yarns. Beautiful bowls full of colorful balls. And then it hit me, my mom could be right. God help me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What she had sent me was a link on how to make yarn bowls. Not the bowls that hold your yarn when knitting, I think I CAN make one of those, but more onthat later, more like bowls made out of yarn. Lacy or solid, colorful or plain....hmmm could be fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is how it goes. You take white glue, not all white glues are the same, I found out the hard way, so before you buy in bulk try a small bottle, mixed with a bit of water to loosen. Now, don't go crazy here, just loosen it, it will take FOREVER to dry if you add in too much water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cut (or Don't) the strips of yarn and saturate them with the glue mixture. Cover SARAN WRAPPED BOWLS. Please don't wrap it tightly, I thought a cleaner single layer would be best but NOPE, its harder to get off, so be messy, lots of layers with wrinkles works best. Then wrap the yarn around these bowls and let stand to dry. Takes about a day in warm weather. and you get the coolest bowls. They are light and sorta fragile but beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here is my work box. The knitted bowl was there to soak with the starch and get it to stand up straight. Worked wonderfully, while messy, but worked. I'll post a picture another time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">See all the different yarns? Thick or Thin dosen't matter, you will need a TON of glue tho......and by the way the glue you see did NOT work I had to go get a bunch of good old Elmer's Glue. Stick with the classics my friend. ha ha A pun "stick" with the classics....get it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was my first attempt, a commercially dyed and spun Dk weight I got during a yarn crawl 2 years ago, it was a shawl at first but was WAY too small, I repourposed it into this cool bowl. Pretty huh. Too me forever to take off the bowl, because I only used one layer of saran wrap. Almost broke it trying to remove it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was one of the last I did, before I ran out of glue. Its a commercial spun hand dyed that I was trying to do as a lacy "art bowl" once I got it off, I learned WAY too late about multiple layers, It looks really really cool.</span></div>
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<a href="http://spoonful.com/crafts/spaghetti-yarn-bowl"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://spoonful.com/crafts/spaghetti-yarn-bowl</span></a></div>
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Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-55008355214739258122013-06-04T15:20:00.002-04:002013-06-04T15:20:29.630-04:00The Bump to My Grind<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello All,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that the spring show season is over, Jenn and I regroup, relax, and re-stock. I was able, for the first time, to purchase what is called a "bump" from our fiber supplier. This is 22 POUNDS of fluffy, soft, wonderfulness. I chose BFl for my first bump. Easy to dye, beautiful to spin and well liked by our customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought I would share my babies, first pictures..... Here she is fresh from the postman. I honestly thought it was gonna be a HUGE box, but alas, no it was a normal/average sized container.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See what I mean, it's sitting in the dry sink so it can't run away as I put out its guts, normal in size. No fork lift needed to drop this guy off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started breaking down this bad boy into 4 ounce balls....... After about 5 pounds and not seeing a dent in the box, I stopped for the evening. The rest of the bump was placed in it's own snug rubbermaid container to wait until I needed more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was attempting to clean stuff up in expectation of my new arrival, remember I was thinking this was gonna be HUGE. Look how tidy and all the empty bins..... Since this picture was taken I have removed the gray cabinet (left hand side of the picture) and moved it to another room, to give myself space for another countertop. Jenn and I are looking at doing some wholesale, and I wanted to make sure I had enough room to dye in bulk. Sweet huh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for looking at my baby's pictures ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DD</span>Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-70660197453824415922013-04-13T07:44:00.002-04:002013-04-13T07:44:46.250-04:00Spinning to Knit!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I stack them into a large plastic bag from darkest to lightest. If I can keep them tidy this should lead to a seemless gradiation of color. Should.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The same thing was done with the bright pink. I was kicking myself all thru this process. See, I threw together this kit at the last minute. I was so busy dyeing for everyone else I forgot I needed to spin one also. SO, I was not very careful to get the gradients smooth and there was A LOT of mottling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Normally I don't mind mottling.......it leads to a fantastically tonal yarn, BUT in this instance I needed clean clear non-mottled colors. Bummer...... That's what I get for rushing the job.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The yarn singles themselves came out OK. There was more middle/medium color than anything else. Because I had to pull the roving apart alot more than normal to get the same colors together. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the singles were spun, clockwise, I plyed the singles in a Chain Ply, or Navajo Ply, counter-clockwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Navajo Plying is the greatest plying technique I've learned. It allows you to keep colors clean, if that is what your going for, and to make a fluffy well spun 3 ply yarn from just one bobbin. Don't get me wrong, I love using my lazy kate, my youngest son made it for me. It stacks one on top of the other and there are tension nuts to keep the yarns from getting tangled. He even stained the base to match my wheel. Its just lovely, BUT working from one bobbin to another gives me the freedom of having multiple projects going at once. Instant gratification and all that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the green all spun up. Not sure if you can see with this picture how the gradient is heavier on one end. It's still pretty and soft and squishy and came out to be a little bit bigger than a large DK. That's a big step for me. I have difficulty getting the single small enough so that when I 3 ply it, it's not HUGE. I think it will look beautiful against the bright pink yarn.</span><br />
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Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-59213219217623538462013-04-09T19:40:00.003-04:002013-04-09T19:40:53.001-04:00SAL Has Begun!Hello All,<br />
Our First Annual SAL has begun.......well it actually began on the 1st but you see what I mean. Did you get your scarf kit? What will you be spinning? Merino Tencel? BFL? Oohhhh something exotic like Yak? That being said, Jenn and I are talking prizes now. We think first will be a beautiful set of project bags, second price will be some fiber and thrid will be a cool set of stitch markers.<br />
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The winners will be picked by their FO pictures by the other contestants. If, gasp, we have very few people joining us, then as long as they send us a picture of the finished scarve they will probably get something....... It's so hard getting the word out when your a little fish like us. <br />
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Enough "woe is meing". This is going to be great!<br />
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Here is my newly cleaned and oiled wheel. Isn't she a beaut? I love this wheel. Louet made some mighty fine spinning wheels. This S10 is a very hard worker. I've decided to spin up here instead of the basement, where the TV is. No Arrow to disrupt my concentration. Him with that flat stomach and the brooding Viking good looks, no not gonna do it. I'll sit up here, all alone, in the natural light and spinn for 2 hours every day. <br />
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You can see the package of ripped and ready roving all set to be spun in my basket. Along with my fingerless mitts, made for me by my friend, Lia. I use them when its chilly but I still need to be able to feel the yarn. <br />
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DDDyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-71195226888036528642013-02-22T08:48:00.001-05:002013-02-22T08:48:44.209-05:00Spin to Knit A-Long<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello All,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">It's almost time for our Spin and Knit a-long! 7 days until we start. Ohhh getting excited! Do you have your kit? You can get into our shop and order one ASAP and I will make sure you have one in your hot ready hands by the time we start. This will be such fun people!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Below is the kit I spun up for my dear friend Lia. Poor, poor Lia does not have a wheel. She claims she does NOT need another hobby (liar, she craves the wheels freedom). She is, however, and extraordinary knitter. She can do anything. I swear, hand to God, she ROCKS!! So she will be joining along in the knitting portion of our program. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palest of blues out to dark royal blue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It came out to be about 98 yards (?!?!) I thought it was gonna be a bit longer. But with the red should make a decent size scarf for TRHM (the red haired man) her wonderful boyfriend. Yes, we love him too</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the other half of the scarf. Palest of blush pink out to a very strong scarlet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Again just about 98 yards (arggh) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look how cool they look together. They will accent each other nicely and look fine on a man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the kit I will be spinning. As you can see it will NOT be for one of my three men, this will be for MEEEEEEEEE! Woo Hoo finally making something for myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I dyed this and it is called "Spring is Here!" Whadda ya think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking forward to seeing what YOU will spin. Remember we start March 1st.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">DD</span>Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-24663957079228726742013-02-19T10:53:00.000-05:002013-02-19T10:53:00.344-05:00Spin to Knit Scarf Kit<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are going to do our very first SAL and KAL. For you not in the know that is Spin-a-long and Knit-a-long. We have these killer scarf kits that were just recently featured in the "Get This" section of Spin Off Magazine. Thank you very much and Jenn and I thought we would attempt to prolong our 15 minutes of fame and have some fun at the same time. Hence the SAL/KAL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's what ya do. Buy a kit. Please, really, I've been dyeing a bunch just for you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if you have a ton of fiber stash, we understand and you can use that instead. We have the pattern on sale in the shop so you can follow along. Next, stop by our Ravelry Group and show off what you intend to spin and knit up. Gotta show it off so that when we are all done and voteing on the best (for a PRIZE) we can see where you started. Prizes, yes, everyone loves prizes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jenn, because she is wonderful, will be sending out a heads-up on when certain parts of the SAL/KAL need to be done. We start March 1st spinning and then we end......umm not to sure. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll get back to you on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some pictures to get you drooling and wanting to join in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morning Coffee, its a brown gradient against a YOR (yellow, orange, red), this could go for a guy or a girl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sun and Sea, its a blue gradient against an orange one. Simple and fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the way the scarf works out. Cool Huh? Once spun up you knit the two different yarns dark end against light end and you get this great stripy effect. This scarf is Garden Wall, our Fieldstone Wall colorway against our Plums and Berries Colorway. Jenn spun and knit this one up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gott be truthful, I'm not looking forward to the knitting part. But Jenn assures me that I'll be able to do it, and, believe me, if I can you can!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look forward to seeing everyone March 1st!!</span><br />
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Dyenamic Dyestresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12438205889958192936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317792895035973161.post-46152581980847775452013-02-12T10:32:00.001-05:002013-02-12T10:32:47.174-05:00Mama Wanna Mawata?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have some new fiber in the studio, Mawata or silk "hankies". These are silk cocoons that have been de-gummed, their glue has been removed, and then stretched out to a gossamer thin square on a form and set to dry. Each layer of the mawata square is one cocoon. Layers and layers of them make up the hankie. I've been playing with the color and how much dyes are needed to get a nice rich final product. Now that the little amounts (12-16 grams) have come out well, I'll move on to a larger batch. This stuff is super fun, you can knit straight from the hankie, a God send for those of you who don't spin, and it felts easily also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is what I do...... this is the beautiful pile of silk hankies as they come from Ashland Bay. Ohhh pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see all the light and airy layers. Be sure to use hand lotion, any little scratchy piece on your hands/fingers will catch on the silk. What a pain in the butt!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I soak them in pans with water and a wee bit of vinegar. Gotta make sure the pretty dyes strike like they are supposed to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adding the dye is the fun part. I pour it into the pan and gently lean the whole thing to get the dyes to spread out and mix together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the sections of hankies (16 grams ususally) are wrapped in plastic, rolled into a big cigar and put into the steamer to finish setting the dyes. No one wants silk that bleeds into their knitting or felting or paper or what have you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Hope this has inspired you to either, dye your own, or use a mawata to knit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hopefully this posting is finding you happy, healthy and tired after a night of reveling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These are just a couple of quick photos to share my Holiday with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My front room and Christmas tree, the night prior to the kids opening rampage</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Father Christmas hanging on the tree, watching the action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our "Peace Dove" keeping an eye towards the coming year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isn't this a cute miniture reindeer? Its made of wood and comes apart for easy storage. I keep trying to get my guys to make me some full scale ones for the front yard. Ah, mabie next year..........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for taking a minute check out my Holiday pictures. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and SAFE New Year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See you in 2013!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spin faster, I'm dyeing here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After a successful show season, Jenn and I have put our heads together and reviewed the notes. Looks like a lot of customers were looking for smaller skeins that worked together. Like a mix and match kinda thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I got to dyeing on our Plum Panda sock line. This yarn is wonderful, a superwash merino, bamboo and nylon mix. It looks like there is silk in there, thank you bamboo, but there is none AND it is actually washable. After the fiasco with our Saunderstown Line FELTING (!!!!) we have been very careful to make sure it won't felt up when you hand wash your lovely project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've added in a few pictures to get you drooling and would love to know what you think of the new sets. I'd also like to hear about the colors you would like to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thanks for your help!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">600 yards of yarny goodness</span>. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pink pink and more pink, oh my!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Darn camera won't show the wonderful tonal differences in the blue-purple range. You get the idea from this picture but it is sooooo much nicer in person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's Tuesday and here are some of the new stuff I'm listing in the shop. Ususally I don't promote in the blog, but I'm short on time this week. Sorry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maelstrom, Merino Wool. So very cool!! Will make a killer yarn or felted scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zeus, Merino Wool, new colorway. The colors are a bit deeperr than in the pictures. I really gotta get a new camera. Santa?????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cabbage Rose, Merino Wool. Soft and subtle the perfect christmas colors. Red, white and a hint of tan to ground it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Equinox, Merino Silk Blend. Deep gold in a continuous gradient out to a dark blue. Again, damn camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hope you have seen something you'll love. See you next week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Happy Spinning,</span><br />
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