I am delighted to bring you this year’s Advent calendars! I’m using this artistic rendering of the Cassiopeia constellation by Beate Bachman as inspiration for the colorways: I’m offering a Yarn Advent Calendar for knitters, crocheters, and weavers. I’m also offering a Fiber Advent Calendar for spinners and felters. I’m using the Cassiopeia constellation picture… Read More Ready, Set, Advent!
This week I was inspired by a customer named Judy who reached out to me. She had just bought the Angel Wings Ponchette pattern, and she emailed me for colorway suggestions to go with it. What she really wanted was to make it look like the original here with the gradient from dark to light:… Read More Some New Colorways for the Angel Wings Ponchette Pattern
Over the years, I have interviewed quite a few amazing designers, and I thought I would take a moment this week to put links to all of them in one place so you can see what your favorite designers had to say. Here they all are: With that said, I would love to hear back… Read More A Review of Interviews
This week I took my Knitting by the Pool Ponchette pattern and dyed up some wonderful new colorways to go with it. Let me tell you a little bit about the pattern, and then I’ll show you the colorway options for the kit. The Knitting by the Pool Ponchette is a fun and easy assigned-pooling… Read More Knitting by the Pool Ponchette Kits
Last week we went on vacation. I should actually say that we tried to go on vacation, but it ended up looking a lot like a Chevy Chase movie. More about that later. Lots of people travel during the summer, but this week I was thinking about the people who stay home and have a… Read More Staycation Sale!
You remember the old saying related to what a bride should bring to her wedding? “Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” Well, this week has been a productive one in the studio, and when I sat down to plan out this week’s newsletter, I realized that the colorways we dyed up fit… Read More Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
This week I have some freshly dyed yarn as well as some new silk chiffon scarves to show you. I also finished dyeing the Angel Wings Ponchette kits, including a few extras. Party Like It’s 2029 Let’s start with this colorway. I dyed it for the first time in 2020 near the beginning of COVID… Read More Fresh from the Dye Pots
If you’re like me, you basically never leave the house without at least one work in progress. As summer draws near, it’s time to start thinking about what projects to take for summer travel. Whether it’s a trip to the park or a trip across the country, it’s nice to have something to work on… Read More Great Projects for Summer Travel
For this month’s Show and Tell, we actually had an even number of knit, crocheted, and woven contributions, which is really delightful–as are all of the projects. This first project was crocheted by Anne using Peacock Feathers on Stained Glass Sock. Isn’t this beautiful? She said the diagonal stripes just happened on their own. I… Read More Show and Tell
I have so many fresh-squeezed colorways to show you! I started the week with Visit to Lyme. This colorway was inspired by Jane Austen’s book Persuasion. Specifically, it was inspired by the part where all the characters go to visit the seaside town of Lyme, which marks a turning point in the book. Here is… Read More Fresh-Squeezed Yarn
