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Dying for some tea (part 3)

The yarn sat in its tea bath overnight Sunday and most of Monday to maximise the dye effect. Then it was rinsed off in cold water and hung up to dry. Drying took another day, and the end result on Tuesday was this: There's some colour variation across

Dying for some tea (part 2)

Before dying the yarn, I soaked it in cool water with a smidge of Eucalan. I brewed tea for 30 minutes in a pyrex bowl with five plain black tea bags and boiling water. If you were drinking this, it would be strong and bitter from the tannins. The tea

Dying for some tea (part 1)

When I was a child, I had a cotton sweater I loved to wear. It was bright white, short sleeved, and every time I wore it, I spilled something on it. Tea, Coke, orange juice, ketchup, more tea, I never wore the thing for a full day. We called it

Handspun Halfdome in progress

Knitting with handspun is a strange experience for me because I know this yarn. I knew it in roving form, when it was the softest of the 4oz balls of chocolate and vanilla fuzz on the shelf. Over several months I spun it onto a bobbin of singles, taking care

Fungus the Bogeyman socks

When we lived in Stowemarket, I got a book from the library called Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs. It followed a working bogeyman through his day travelling to the surface of Britain, where his job is to scare the humans. I raved about how wonderful the book was to

State of the Knit

My knitting goals are to finish the Eris cardigan before autumn and make another fingering weight shawl this year, probably Sivia Harding's Waves in the Square. Ambitious goals, given my usual level of output. Lunchtimes are for knitting now the citizenship revision is over. There needs to be

Civic duties

On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point

Catch up

It's been a busy month. Knitting Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'

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Something blue

I have two light blue scarves in progress. One is Juno Regina, using Conjoined Creations Pastimes, a soy lace weight. I've never knit with lace weight before and it's weird. I can't snap the yarn by hand, it's like knitting with a

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