This month I chose the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the club colorway. Michelangelo painted it between 1508 and 1512, and it is certainly one of the most famous works of Renaissance painting. Can you imagine working for four years on something over your head?! I had the great privilege of singing in The… Read More June’s Club Colorway: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Good morning and happy Friday to you! It’s getting to feel a lot like summer here in Texas. If you live someplace with mild summers, I am officially jealous. On the up side, though, we are starting to get butterflies fluttering through the yard, and I picked the first red tomato yesterday from our garden.… Read More Fresh Yarn + Poll Results for New Yarn Bases
Good morning and happy Friday to you! Today I want to tell you about a new pattern I created called The Long Way Round. The irony is that I named it The Long Way Round before knowing just how long it would take me to get it designed and published. You may recall that I… Read More The Long Way Round
Good morning and happy Friday to you. I have been bursting with the news of today’s topic, and I’m so excited to share it with you. I also wanted to tell you a bit about last week’s DFW Fiber Fest. A Match Made in Heaven A few months ago, I discovered Dawn Barker’s amazing assigned… Read More A Match Made in Heaven – Assigned Pooling and Starry Night
Good morning! I hope you are doing well. First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who took part in my art batt sale last weekend. With a lot of help from my husband and our older children, we are almost done carding all the art batts and getting them packaged and… Read More A Few Long-Lost Colorways and a Free Cowl Pattern
Happy Friday to you! Today I have a new yarn base to tell you about, and I must admit that I’m a little bit giddy about it. It’s called Squiggle Sock, and this yarn base is all about texture. Squiggle Sock is made of 90% superwash merino and 10% nylon. Its construction is similar to… Read More Introducing Squiggle Sock
Happy Friday. Or is it Saturday already where you are already? Writing this newsletter was my very first priority of the day, yet here I am writing this at 9 o’clock at night. Tell me I’m not the only one whose days run away at times. The little ones are asleep, my 15-year-old son is… Read More A Little More Fall and a Few More Speckles
For the past few months, I’ve been quite busy getting ready for this or that trunk show or festival or dyeing up the things that needed to be dyed. Now, don’t get me wrong. You know I love dyeing yarn, but I have not had a lot of time to just play with new colorway… Read More A Raft of New Colorways and a Preorder Too
March Yarn and Fiber Clubs As many of you know, I started several different yarn clubs and a club for art batts just last month. Each month’s exclusive club colorway is based on a famous painting. For the March colorway, I decided to use Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” as inspiration. This is going to be… Read More Announcing the March Club Colorway
