Lizard Toes

I can’t believe I haven’t posted here in over a month, nearly two! Inexcusable!
I have been busy, however. I’ve designed a crocheted bag with Samira and I’m working on refining the pattern now for testing. I’ll offer it with any purchase of Samira for free or for a buck or two for [...]

So I promised new Dark Matter and other fun colorways for you and then didn’t come through.  See, I thought it would be fun to clean a fleece outside using my giant stock pots, huge tubs and boiling water.  And it was, but it also screwed up my back.  That was over a week ago [...]

Isobel and Orio, huge cones of both, just waiting for me to soak them with dye. I can’t wait to get started, hopefully that will be happening in the next few days, which means all you folks waiting on more Dark Matter won’t have to wait much longer. I’m going to dye up [...]

After much sweating and rushing I got 17 lbs of yarn dyed, put up, photographed and listed in just a few days.  What a marathon!  But there are 3 new yarns in the shop, including yarns for weavers and some luscious silk laceweight.  And best of all I’ve started adding knitting swatches to my yarn [...]

Despite my booming little business here, I still have an undergrad program to finish. This past class was HELL. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it out alive, but I’m beginning to think I may.
I’ve been busy at work dyeing up some custom orders when I can snatch bits of time. [...]

Of course it had to start raining when I started dyeing
The bamboo/merino is all done and is drying.  The cashmere blend is also drying.  I hope it doesn’t take too much longer for them to finish.
The bamboo blend was a challenge to dye.  I had to put it through two different dye processes [...]