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February 2024 Round-Up: Deep Slow Winter
The fall flew by. December is always so busy. Even January had enough deadline and events to buzz past. But this month, February, finally ground to a crawl. Every December, I look forward to the deep...
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All About Skep
After months of planning, dyeing, spinning, knitting, cataloguing, vlogging, with a finishing touch of lots of sewing, my Year of Colour project is done. 110 hexagons: 51 from samples spun from single...
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How I Spun and Knit Through Skep
“Dyeapalooza” of last summer was Part 1 of the exercises at the end of chapter 4 of Color in Spinning by Deb Menz. The combo spinning that resulted in the “Skep” blanket (pattern by Kate Davies), is...
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Skep – Red Corner
Let’s crack on, shall we? In the first corner, these are colours dominated by red. I’ve mapped them out below. The hexies in this area without numbers are from samples spun from a single handdyed...
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Skep – Yellow Corner
This is a smaller corner – not a lot of blends really came through as yellow or orange. This is perhaps attributable to Goethe’s proportion theory – it takes a lot more yellow to really take over a...
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Skep – Green Side
There ended up being so many green-dominated hexies that they took up a whole side of the blanket. I wonder why this is – were the green dyes I used particularly potent on balance? Is it the amount of...
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Skep – Blue Corner
Blue is a huge corner of this blanket. According to Goethe, blue is the colour you need the least of for it to balance other colours, which is a little counterintuitive to me since it’s so ubiquitous...
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Skep – Purple-Pink Side
We’ve made it to the final section of the Skep blanket, and it’s a big one! Pinks and purples take up a corner and most of a side of this blanket, and we’ll be covering twelve colourways today, from...
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Puffin
It’s a hazard of blogging that when the time comes to write about something, you might be in a mood that does not at all reflect what you have the task of writing about. For example, right now Casa de...
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I Turned Thirty-Eight
I’ve been in a bit of a verbal creative block lately. I’m certainly creating a lot of stuff, but I’m having trouble wording, at least anything longer than an Instagram caption. I think when Jared left...
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