Hump Day

Calendar Girl 2010

It is that time of year again, the calendar displays are popping up and by next month they will all be on sale for $5.  This year I am in search of two calendars, one for the kitchen and our general household use and one for my soon to be studio basement. Yup, you heard [...]

Captain Tie Dye!

Do you remember Captain Kangaroo? Even he got into Shibori/tie-dye.

Giveaway Winner!

So everyone wants to know who won, I used a random number generator and counted down the comments.
I am pleased to announce that the winner of the handdyed fabrics is……..
Lynda! from String Alongs
Thanks all for playing!

Grand Opening of Put the Tea Kettle On!

We are excited to announce a new joint venture blog, Put the Tea Kettle On. My friend Libby and I have decided that we needed a proper place to detail our tea drinking expliots for our amusement and yours. We will both be posting about tea, food, tea cozies and anything tea related. There will [...]

Bright Sheep

Some creative herding and electronic geekery.

Wise Guys

These fun little guys where at a shop in Point Reyes this last weekend, I bet they know lots I don’t.

Dyeing for Color

1. One Love A Day: Day #40 – Fluids, 2. Hand-Dyed Sock Yarn, 3. dye run – spring 2006, 4. hey psst!, 5. Hand Dyed Fiber Buns, 6. Dyeing Success – Macro, 7. Selling colours, Pashupatinath, 8. Dye-ing leather, 9. Yellow Dye, 10. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts., 11. Attack, 12. [...]

A Rainy Day

Things are still wet and gray, the voices on the news say it is going to stay that way all week. We need the water but I just want to ride my bike in some sunshine. So to focus on something else here are a few shinny things.

This is some yummy Whenslydale dyed with madder [...]

Rip It Rip It

Well, I had started the front of the Sidelines Top, now I have re-started it. Last night at knit-night it became clear that the height to my gauge had gotten to big so I was past the point I needed to start decreaseing and I realized I had miss worked the M1s so I had [...]