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Announcements
Highland Handmades/Fiberista Files interview last week
Knitting
Lowry Pullover
Hinagiku Hat
SeeD Socks
Al-Ciel Sweater
Spinning
Highland Handmades SW BFL - DONE!
Unwind Yarn Company Merino
Dyeing/Ask A Dyer
Debcquilts - So….how the heck does yarn absorb more dye than it can hang on
to? And what am I to do with a pitch black unstable yarn besides throw it away?But…more importantly, I will challenge an assumption I learned somewhere….is the dye really set when the color of the water in immersion dyeing is clear?
Lorrieu - The other question is when taking notes what is
your ‘format’? Seems when I take notes on something……in the end it is not
something I would care to repeat and on the days I don’t take notes………darn I
should have. I will admit I am not a note taker type so formats are the key for
me and I never know where to start.
How do you hook up or connect with people, places or shops
that you do wholesale with? How do you approach them? How does that type of
pricing work?
CecileinIndiana - When you were talking about your SeeD
Socks, you mentioned your new colorway, SeeD and the fact that you dyed the
yarn so it would pool. The science behind pooling is a bit confusing to me: I
know what pooling is (at least I think: it’s when the colors on the yarn will
form blocks in your knitting and, when sometimes it can be a nice surprise, it
can also be very frustrating…), but I can’t tell, by looking at a skein in a
store on on a computer screen, if a yarn will be “just” variegated, with nice
spreading of the colors overall, or will pool like crazy. I’m guessing it will
always depend on your gauge and your number of stitches per row… I never
thought there was a way to know and it was random luck (or unluck!).
Here is my question: How do you predict if a yarn will pool? You, as a dyer, how do you proceed to obtain pooling and non-pooling colorways?
Dye-a-Long
Sign-ups through March 31, assignments go out April 1, DAL
ends April 30.
Prizes so far: skein of Gynx Yarns, Voolenvine stitch
markers, BCYarnings fiber
Budget ideas
Color ideas
Shop Update
DFW Fiber Fest – April 5 - 7
