Entries Tagged as ‘Fibers’

24 November, 2009

Catching Up

We moved to our first (rented) house last month. The most exciting part (for me at least) is that there is a basement, I will finally have a studio space all to myself!

The Berkeley Knitters all headed out to Meridian Jacobs Farm for another Shearing Day.

Will took a week off and went to Hawaii and [...]

15 June, 2009

WW Knit in Public Day 2009

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, [...]

11 June, 2009

Fiber Files: Cotton

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 [...]