Spinning

I remember making a crocheted handkerchief case during Thursday craft afternoons at Broke Hall Primary school.  It used three strands of cobalt-blue yarn and I complained about it the whole time.  I have a vague memory it was double crochet.  It came out slightly lopsided but Mum sewed a nice

This project did not get off to a good start.  When I joined the stitches, I set off using the tail of the cast-on yarn.  Then I started knitting inside out.  Knitting it brings back memories of  time spent at Maryland Sheep and Wool with Rox in 2007, the smell

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

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

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