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home feeds posts comments yarn yarn yarn july 17 2009 by t it s been a busy summer so busy that i haven t even thought about updating this blog until my friend pixie mentioned that i should a few days ago and she s right so here i am typing nonsense because the problem is so much has been going on and happening in my world that i don t know where to start hmm what is blogworthy well let me begin by showing you this sock yarn i was kettle dyeing yesterday in a few different shades of beautiful blue right now i m dyeing about one or two skeins each dyeing session maybe three times per week so roughly three to six skeins are done per week i honestly don t think i could do any more than that and still keep the same quality in each dye job because sometimes a single skein will take me four hours to finish each skein of yarn that i dye is uniquely and meticulously handpainted or kettle dyed to my own personal satisfaction i ve seen some people on some blogs that output a large amount of handpainted yarn at one time over ten skeins and i just don t understand how they do it unless they have a small army helping them the reason i m dyeing all this yarn is because i m going to be a vendor at the 2009 fiber festival in snow hill maryland coming up on october 10 i have to build my inventory so i have quite a bit to sell there of course teen had a small fit when i told him i needed him to wind up all this yarn on the niddy noddy right now i m looking at 24 skeins that need winding and the niddy noddy makes my arms ache so i invested in a new knitting tool this is my new maple will taylor clamp on skeinwinder swift which i ordered from carolina homespun and it s wonderful the teen is off the hook at least for now thanks to pixie i ve also gotten back into my knitting i finally finished those nightmare socks with her encouragement and they fit although i loathe them now because they took two years to complete i think i got tired of looking at them the pattern wasn t the easiest to follow and the yarn wasn t as soft as i would have liked but plymouth sockotta was the first sock yarn i ever bought for myself that was before i learned how to dye yarn and now i ll never buy any commercial brands again unless i absolutely have to not to mention the fact that i have approximately two bins full of my own handpainted yarn already on to the next project two at a time toe up socks on two circulars from the book knitting more circles around socks by antje gillingham i have her first book too and both include very nice patterns that are easy to understand these are only my second pair of socks and i m knitting them with my own kettle dyed yarn sand in my stitches pure merino sw i m a little further than the image shows and so far so good these will be a demo project for my yarn at the festival and i ve given a skein of my kona sock yarn to pixie to knit up in some kind of amazing lacy project many many thanks to pixie for the motivation and help posted in acid dye dye dyeing dyeing yarn etsy hand dyed handpainted yarn kettle dyed yarn knitting merino photography sand in my stitches socks wool yarn 7 comments reskeining may 10 2009 by t i ve been keeping busy lately dyeing and reskeining some yarn for my etsy shop sand in my stitches here s what i was working on last week the one on the left is pure merino sw in the color angelfish that i felt could use a reskeining the other four are all kona sock superwash merino second from left is one of the new colors i dyed last week and the last three got a reskeining too while photographing them i realized i used blue in all of them there are two more new colors that i dyed but they re waiting for a shipment of kookaburra so they can be washed more to come stay tuned posted in acid dye dye dyeing dyeing yarn etsy handpainted yarn kettle dyed yarn sand in my stitches spinning yarn wool yarn 1 comment 2009 maryland sheep wool festival may 8 2009 by t as promised or threatened i hauled the family to the 2009 maryland sheep wool festival last saturday close to three hours away from where we live and as predicted the crowds were incredible i think this festival attracts more and more people every year nonetheless we all enjoyed it to some degree and were entertained by some very amusing livestock and a working sheepdog demonstration which was rather fascinating above is the obligatory crowd shot it was intermittently rainy on the way to the festival but stopped before we arrived and was decent for the rest of the day threatening weather doesn t phase fiber and yarn fantatics that s for sure at right is my dh with our youngest son in yellow who kept nagging us can we leave now he has a short attention span those border collies are very well trained i believe the border collie is herding blue faced leicester sheep the high quality wool of which is coveted by many fiber artists and knitters around the globe i have yet to get my hands on some maybe at next year s festival walking through the livestock buildings we saw many different sheep in the pens most with a full coat of fleece that were waiting to be perfectly groomed and taken to the show ring i must admit that sometimes the thought of life on a sheep farm or alpaca is enticing to the point that i want to try to make it happen maybe someday it will but i think that we d have to start small maybe one angora rabbit at first then maybe two and if that works for us perhaps an angora rabbitry and i must also admit i really want a bunny too bad we can t have one now but it s always something we can work toward many of the sheep were resting when we walked through but our boys found one of the few attentive sheep in the barn and gave it some affection we were all highly amused by this freshly shorn llama who was sitting in his pen chewing his cud with a piece of straw hanging out of his mouth what a funny looking animal next we saw a really cute alpaca that loved having the back of his neck scratched so we obliged him in the middle of photographing all the livestock i was on the lookout for the only three things i had on my must have list from this festival and believe it or not i had enough willpower to bypass the rest of the vendors with a glance if i didn t see what i was looking for so we headed to the main exhibition hall to see if we could find my items where much much more pushing and shoving ensued and i thought the crowd outside was incredible ha that crowd couldn t even compare to the one which was inside this building every few steps i had to stop and look around to see what i could see around the hundreds of other people that were milling about who were no doubt searching for their particular items too if it was fiber related i knew it could be found inside this building and it was but not before i found this fabulous great wheel demonstration at an antique vendor s booth even dh and the boys seemed curious and she was gathering a little crowd to watch her spin it was interesting how she drafted the wool into such a fine thread by wrapping it around her finger these beautiful antique spinning wheels and other spinning tools were located in this booth as well this is the butterfly electronic yarn spinner handcrafted by wild meadow we didn t get to see one in action but this just might become one of my christmas wish list items in the near future after all dh did stealthily pick up a brochure about it unbeknownst while i was checking it out and taking pictures a very good day indeed and i found the three items that i wanted well two really but i substituted one for another i bought a set of ashford 72 point hand carders an ashford student drop spindle and a pound of white medium wool top roving the latter two came from ohio valley natural fibers i originally wanted to get more angora fluff to add to the 2 oz of angora fluff that i got from thistledown alpacas during last year s festival but by the time i finally found their tent all my guys wanted to go because it was getting late and all their bunnies had been sold already darn it i already can t wait for next year s festival and will probably visit thistledown alpacas as one of my first stops instead of my last posted in family knitting md sheep wool festival spinning wool spinning yarn wool yarn tagged alpaca llama maryland sheep wool festival mswf sheep spinning spinning wheel yarn 1 comment older posts sand in my stitches unique kettle dyed handpainted yarns phototw etsy com local yarn shops groups delaware sea needles bethany beach ginger moon lewes maryland central delmarva fiber guild frivolous fibers st michaels the fine needle snow hill upper room studio berlin yarns co easton fibre cafe cambridge blogs i like dragonfly fibers extreme adventures in motherhood from the stash of stacy knitlust living the beautiful life mommie of drew s place return to splendor spooky knits the sanguine gryphon yarndemon s adventures october 2026 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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