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Le Tour de Fleece begins
by on July 5, 2011

I’ve been mostly knitting and crocheting as of late, so the start of Le Tour de Fleece was a great opportunity to pull out my wheel and get back into my peaceful Zen square of handspinning. Spinning yarn seems to occupy a different part of my brain than other fiber crafts; I find it especially calming when I have a really hectic week.

First, I spun some BFL (Bluefaced Leicester) that I got at Andersen Fiber Works a couple of weeks ago. The indie dyer is Dicentra Designs, and I just love their bright, clear colors. I predrafted this fiber without splitting it up in order to preserve the super-long color repeats, and then I chain plied it to make a bouncy 3-ply yarn. When I knit this one up, I should see stripes that transition gently from shade to shade.

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Podcast Episode 108: Report from Sock Summit
by on April 6, 2011

Kelley talks with Stacey and Kate about the adventures they had at Sock Summit 2009 in Portland, Oregon.
Independent Fiber Artists Mentioned in Podcast

Blue Moon Fiber Arts
Lotus Yarns
Rainy Days & Wooly Dogs (GothSocks)
A Verb for Keeping Warm
Enchanted Knoll Farm
Girl on the Rocks
Stevanie Pico
Daisy Muir
Jenkins Woodworking
Windsor Farms Rabbitry
RedFish DyeWorks
Sanguine Gryphon
Kimber Baldwin of Fiber Optics Yarns
Royale Hare
Alchemy Yarns
Stone Barn Fibers
Darilee
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Podcast Episode 76: Knitting in Literature
by on April 6, 2011

Kelley reads a few knitting poems, then shares a number of knitting book titles to try.
Book Suggestions in Book Review
Anne MacDonald
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
Maggie Sefton
Knit One, Kill Two
Needled To Death
A Deadly Yarn
A Killer Stitch
Dyer Consequences
And Fleece Navidad
Monica Ferris
Knitting Bones
Sins and Needles
A Murderous Yarn
Unraveled Sleeve
Hanging By A Thread

Mary Kruger
Died in the Wool
Knit Fast, Die Young
Sally Goldenbaum
Death by Cashmere
Patterns in the Sand
Debbie Macomber
The Shop on Blossom Street
A Good Yarn
Back on Blossom Street
Twenty Wishes
Elizabeth Lenhard
Chicks with Sticks (It’s a Purl Thing)
Chicks with Sticks (Knit Two Together)
Chicks with Sticks (KnitWise)
Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Knit Two

Ann Hood
The Knitting Circle
Beth Pattillo
The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society
The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love
What’s On My Needles
To keep up with my knitting progress during the week, be sure to check out my personal blog.

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Podcast Episode 51: Sock Blanks!
by on April 6, 2011

We love our sock blanks!! And, after several months of secretive planning and knitting, Tina and I are thrilled to be able to share a few of our experiences as we worked out the details and then enjoyed our own dyeing and knitting pleasures.
Sock Blank Information
Blank Dyeing Tutorial – Video
Blank Dyeing Instructions – PDF
Dye Pattern Techniques – PDF
Sock Blank Knitalong
Free Toe-Up, Two-at-a-Time, Magic Loop Sock Pattern
Sock Blank Materials
Sock Blanks
Jacquard Acid Dyes

What’s On My Needles
To keep up with my knitting progress during the week, be sure to check out my personal blog.

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Music used in this Podcast
Introduction: A Sunken Ship Irony – Reflection at Sundown [http://spotlessrecords.com/asunkenshipirony/]
Book Review: Jim Ronayne – The Three Brethren [http://www.jimronayne.co.uk/]
What’s On My Needles: Beyond The Pale – The Music Plays Me …

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Trans-Species Mr. Foster, or, Ms. Tiger
by on April 4, 2011

I have a lot on my plate craft-wise right now– or should I say, a lot
on my needles and hooks? In addition to my regular job of designing
patterns, I have sweaters on the needles, a new sweater class to teach
here on the blog, I’ve learned to double crochet, and finished a few
squares for my project (which I’ll be sharing next week!), and I’ve
dyed about 900g of yarn in the last month! Whew! And with all this fun
stuff going on, it can be pretty hard to remember the dozen unfinished
projects I have laying around my house! So last weekend, I picked up
one of my oldest and most adorable UFO’s and finally finished her up:

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gift knitting spree
by on February 25, 2011

This fall and winter, almost every project I cast on was one I intended to give away. That makes for thoughtful gifts and happy recipients, but not much blog fodder until the gifts have been given!

Here’s a quick recap of my gifty F.O.’s from the last few months:

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Sockhead Hat
by on February 15, 2011

I’ve been trying to actually use my handspun instead of, well, hoarding it in bins. I tend to treat my handspun as a finished project instead of like yarn to be knit (or crocheted, or woven), and it’s starting to overtake my craft room.

This yarn was one of my very first handspun skeins. I had some undyed superwash merino roving that I had gotten from a friend, and I tried dyeing it using the instructions I found on the Yarn Harlot’s blog. I was nervous about the roving floating apart and the colors mixing into a muddle, so I chose these instructions because they involved stuffing the roving into pantyhose in order to keep it from moving around in the pot. I used squeeze bottles filled with Jacquard dye solution to paint the roving (right through the old pantyhose), wrapped the weird sausages in plastic wrap, then steamed them over boiling water.

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Knitting Noro Book AND Chroma Giveaway!
by on January 10, 2011

This contest is closed!  Thank you everyone for your participation.  You can read about who won here: winners.

Are you all ready for another giveaway contest?  We’ve had so many great
responses in recent contests that we thought we would give you a little
something extra this time.  Not only will the winners get a copy of
this great book, Knitting Noro – The Magic of Knitting with Hand Dyed Yarns, they will also get a skein (weight and color of your
choice) of Chroma! 

Between the amazing patterns in this book and the rich, gorgeous colors
of Chroma, you are destined to make something absolutely stunning.

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