After 2 months of hard work and LOTS of dyeing, my dining room table is full of gradients.  I focused on the gradient sets this time, making 60 new sets to add to the dozen I already had.  Yes, stock was low and it was time to get to work! We’re ready for to set […]

My mother’s condition is the same, but she’s home now and the family has adjusted to taking care of her.  She lives in an apartment attached to my brother’s house, 150 paces away.  So the 3 households share our lives pretty closely.  I have not minded my little daily part of taking care of Mom, 

In May I not only participated in the Sheep and Wool Festival, but I also began taking care of my mother.  She’s been very ill, suffering with breast cancer and severe nerve damage.  For some unknown reason, when her body detected cancer cells and tried to destroy them, this her activated immune system in an

I’m at the Clover Hill yarn booth in one of the barns.  I’ll take some pictures! Home The Festival was a success!  Clover Hill yarns did well, and I sold many hanks and gradients sets from Colorstorms.

When I first began dyeing with bits of nature, I focused on the black walnuts, apple bark, and pokeberries, that were in my yard.  But even with black beans for blue, I wasn’t happy with the pinks and purples I made when trying to blend and modify these few natural ingredients. So I looked into expanding

I did finish the sweater on time.  You don’t have to believe me, and that’s OK.  I bound off and blocked it on the 19th day (January 9th at 5pm), the day Rebecca and Jared and Naomi were traveling back home from Iqaluit to Pittsburgh.  But a couple things happened as I was finishing it

With less than a week to go to finish, the pressure is on to finish the yoke of the sweater.  Last week I completed the body and the sleeves.  Then it was time to add the sleeves to the body of the sweater and knit the yoke.  Included in the pictures are the picot hem on

Day 2 Progress on Naomi’s Sweater: My goal on Naomi’s sweater is to knit 2 inches a day, so I can finish the main body of the sweater in a week. Here’s how it looks after 2 days: For those of you who have knit dozens of these picot edges, you might be wondering how/why did

Merry Christmas time is over, and we’re half way through January already!  And finally I have time to write about it. My mom went through a couple dozen doctor visits before they found a tumor on her back and had to operate. So my December and January has been full of helping Mom, along with