Spring is my favorite time of year, and I know I’m not the only one. When we lived in Michigan, a friend told me not to expect spring until May, and I was so glad she warned me. I had spent most of my life in more southern climates and always expected spring by March.… Read More It’s Tulip Time!
This week I have been working behind the scenes to make my website a little more sleek and streamlined. Now you can filter your search by yarn weight, yarn base, and dye method for Yarn Ready to Ship and by dye method for Yarn Dyed to Order. You can choose multiple filters at the same… Read More Behind the Scenes
A few weeks ago, I was at the movie theatre watching the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings movies with my family. I love the books so much more than the movies, but I try to think of them sort of like Italian pizza versus American pizza. They are both great even though… Read More An Odyssey in Yarn
It’s time for this year’s Eight Days of Easter Kits! Each year for the last seven years I have created a mini skein surprise kit for Easter. These are like a mini Advent calendar. This is a preorder, which means I’ll be dyeing up as many kits as there are orders. This year the colorways… Read More Eight Days of Easter Kits!
I have some beautiful projects to share with you this week. Let’s start with Anne who finished both the 2024 and 2025 Advent calendars recently. For 2025 she crocheted Dawn Barker’s Agnes Shawl: Here it is hung up: Isn’t that lovely? Anne said she changed the order of the colorways to work well with the… Read More Show and Tell – February 2025
This week I dyed up some lovely silk scarves that would be great for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Meanwhile my daughter Elizabeth made some beautiful stitch markers with the same idea. They’ll make you smile all year long! Let’s start with the scarves. They are all made of fine mulberry silk, but I have a… Read More Just in Time for Valentine’s
A couple weeks back I asked for your opinion about adding a sport-weight yarn base and whether you preferred it to include nylon or not. Many of you told me that you really enjoy sport weight, and most of you said you preferred it without nylon. Your wish is my command! This week I added… Read More Your Wish Is My Command
About this time last year, I decided to create four colorways inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. I listened carefully to the music and also thought about the seasons themselves and how best to dye the colorways to match the seasons. The colorways form a complex gradient. Each season gets darker but also contains some of… Read More Four Seasons Shawl
This week I wanted to “highlight” the Handspun Highlight Scarf designed by Orange Smoothie at my request. This was my very first collaboration, and I’m still in awe of her very cool design. The scarf uses one skein of a sock-weight yarn along with about 25 yards of handspun yarn. I just made sets available… Read More Handspun Highlight Scarf
I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m just getting back to ordinary time after the holidays. This week I have lots of fresh-dyed colorways on a variety of yarn bases. I have a skein or two of each of these butterfly colorways in stock on Stained Glass Fingering: I also dyed Sea… Read More Some Fresh-Dyed Colorways
