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Sheep to Sweater, Part I
When the package arrived in the mail, the tag on the contents read “Polly.” Inside was an entire fleece of a Corriedale sheep: pounds and pounds, billowing clouds in fact, of soft fine curls all...
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Sheep to Sweater, Part II
It’s done! My first-ever sweater made out of yarn I processed myself from raw fleece, start to finish! And also the first time I had the experience of knitting, running out of yarn in the middle — and...
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Beans & blues
It’s been a rather dramatic and sad week, not least for the reasons that have kept my former home city of many years, still home to many friends and family, in the news every day. Amidst all the drama,...
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The waste-less wardrobe
There’s nothing quite like moving cross-country to motivate you to shed and purge. And there is nothing quite like shedding and purging to make you think about where all of this stuff came from (and...
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Spinning flax
There’s nothing like moving to South Carolina in August to make even the most dedicated wool spinner like me think, “Hmm, maybe it’s time to start exploring other kinds of fiber…?” The locals tell us...
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The last of the dyeing (for now)
As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a fairly serious fiber crafts kick lately. I don’t know about you, but I sometimes get completely hooked on a project or a craft, and want to do only that for a...
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Homespun haute couture
I’m not really the type that gets excited about high fashion. Nor did I ever think I would be writing here about $130 crochet lace panties, for that matter… But what is very close to my heart are...
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Labor of love
In the last days of being pregnant, I cast on my “labor project”: a cardigan for the baby, made with the silk yarn I spun this winter for that purpose. Someone had recommended that I have a project in...
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Spinning marigold
Marigolds and I share a name. But that’s not the only reason why I like them. They are a great flower to plant along the edges of veggie beds because they have pest-deterring properties. They also...
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Local fiber: Alpaca fiber with name tags on
A few weeks ago, I wrote about participating in the One Year, One Outfit challenge to create one entirely regionally sourced outfit this year. I’d already been planning to research local fibers, mills,...
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Local fiber: Indigo shibori dyeing with Chi Design
The best part about trying to create a network of local fiber artists is actually getting to know these incredibly talented and inspiring people, and watching how one connection leads to another....
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Local fiber: One Year One Outfit update
Earlier this year, I joined the One Year One Outfit challenge: to create one outfit in 2015 that is entirely sourced from my fibershed. I wrote about it here as I initially began to envision what I...
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Nettle fiber experiments, Part II
I’m spinning into thread the nettle fibers that nature grew and I harvested this summer. (Head over here if you want to read Part I about harvesting and processing stinging nettle fiber.) What I had at...
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