This Saturday was World Wide Knit in Public Day. The Berkley Knitters made a good show of it and we headed out to a local park to enjoy the sunshine (although we all forgot sunscreen and ended up a bit pink).
There was a great spread with chocolate chip cookies, couscous salad, brie, baguette, tomatoes, cherries, [...]
The touch, the feel! Cotton is one of the most used fibers in the world, from your BVDs to your Egyptian 3,000 thread count sheets and your stonewashed whiskered bootcut low rise jeans.
The journey from field to garment is quite an amazing one, but I want to get a bit closer, if you know what [...]
Remember back in May when we did tie-dye for the WEF and I said we also dyed some fabric? Well here, finally, are the pictures! I am very happy with the way they turned out, the best part it they are so simple to do and a great way to use up the last bits [...]
Some color for a Monday, these are the other tie-dyed shirts that we wore to the Whole Earth Festival.
My tank top. Raspberry, turquoise, golden yellow and avocado green.
Libby’s T-shirt. Golden yellow, avacado green and azure blue.
This next Saturday is the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis. It is a giant low impact festival with lots of craft vendors, live music, vegetarian food, drum circles, solar panels, improvisational dancing, and it is lots of fun; a mini Woodstock if you will. Of course there will be lots of tie-dye being sold [...]
Last month on a rainy day I stopped in at A Verb For Keeping Warm on my way home. It was a gray day and I wanted something to spin and nothing I had at home was calling my name. I have to say, Kristine’s store is so cozy I could have stayed there all [...]
A little while back, the same day in fact as the making of the stockings, my friend Libby and I decided we needed to to try a little experiment with some wool yarn I had gotten in a yarn swap. The yarn we wanted to dye is wound in those little pats that aren’t really [...]
Today’s Fiber File is about the building block of a whole class of fibers, cellulose. Cellulose in and of itself is not really a fiber but it is what makes up the cells of plant material. Cotton, hemp, rayon, linen, and your garden outside are made up of cellulose, it is the most common organic [...]
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