February 22, 2012

Alchemy

hibiscus outdoors

Take some of these: Add a little water:   Wait, for the magic to happen, cook with yarn…

A beautiful short film

Featuring my home town in the UK. Wonderful photography by Stephen Banks.

Dye studio…

mordanted yarns

Well, it could be the new tagline for my basement. Why not? If you are on Pinterest, click the yarn pic below:

Now we’re cooking!

onion skin and red cabbage dyes

  It’s well below zero degrees (C) outside here in Canada so spending time indoors is a pretty attractive option. Aside from shovelling snow and havingĀ  fun with sleds, things have been going on in my kitchen… Experiments that involve yarn, cabbages and onions. The preliminary results are above! (Onions win, hands down.) I plan [...]

Great minds think alike?

netherfield_220

Have you ever had what seemed like an original idea… Only to find that very shortly afterwards, someone else came up with something SPOOKILY close to what you had envisioned? I’ve just had that experience with these socks: The colour, the broderie stitch, maybe not the wavy up and down patterns. But still. Weird. I’m [...]

Incredible crochet

This incredible video by Nick Hand shows Shauna Richardson making enormous animal sculptures with nothing more than a crochet hook and a mountain of yarn. If you have ever thought your knitting or crochet project was taking forever to finish, this will put it into perspective! Shauna Richardson: Crochetdermy from Nick Hand on Vimeo. Thanks [...]