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Yummy yummy yarn guts. Doesn’t this look like fluffy shiny deer guts? The effect is far more realistic in real life than I was able to capture with the camera. I thank goodness that the smell is not that of authentic intestines. One of the things I like about dying silk is that it’s fairly [...]

I decided to take a break from flax spinning and switch to something a little gentler. Bombyx silk fit the bill. I dyed this batch quite a while ago, the technique was really simple. I waited for a warm day, soaked the silk in water and soda ash, added a little ammonia, emptied dye into [...]

I ran into an old friend while cleaning out my cosmetics drawer. A bit of Tish and Snooky’s manic panic hair color in a shade called “Ultra Violet” I remember buying it a few years back thinking that violet would be a good change from my usual mandarin orange. As it turned out, I was [...]

Opal wanted to see a picture of my current hair color. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor, this is my actual hair color. For the moment, sometimes to shake things up I dye it other colors not normally found in nature but oranges are my favorites. My camera can’t seem to comprehend the real [...]

Yesterday was warm and lovely, today was dreary. Lucky for us we chose to do our dyeing yesterday and not today. Since I currently don’t have the acid for protein dyeing I amused myself with doing a couple of yards of linen. Although I swear I put more dye on the first one, I must [...]

What kinds of spinning urges do you get? Out of no where I started getting a hankering to use long draw method with baby camel down. No– not top, not roving: actual baby camel down. For those of you that haven’t spun camel you won’t be that impressed until you try, the fibers are slippy [...]

After reading Pantone’s 2006 Fall color forecast when it came out I was as depressed as the pastels that they are pimping from Europe. Don’t get me wrong– I like muted watercolor tones but I’m a pale, freckled brunette and they wreck me. I absolutely love sage and taupe, but look like a somewhat well [...]

Yes. I started soaking some wool for hand painting (my high tech acid solution is vinegar) and plotting out the pattern that I want to create based off of some color combinations in my dream from last night. No sneak peeks. I want this to be surprise.

I always have this internal debate start up when I spin silk. There’s a part of me that just wants to keep it, hoard it, pet it, and drool over it as eternal yarn. The other part of me begs to see it worked up into something delightful, because for all the world spinning silk [...]

In the kitchen, when you bake a cake you probably give little thought to the ingredients. The baking soda helps make little tiny bubbles, the flour gives it bulk, the eggs glue things together, the salt does something else, and so on– you know that you throw the stuff in the bowl while preheating and [...]