{"id":672,"date":"2013-10-18T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-10-18T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:59:09","slug":"dyeing-to-knit-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2013\/10\/dyeing-to-knit-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing to Knit in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel as though I haven’t stopped moving since the Marathon!\u00a0 A few days later I was on a plane for Vermont, where Cheryl Potter and Donna Druchunas hosted a series of “Dyeing to Knit” retreats.\u00a0 It was great fun, and I learned a lot.\"hand-dyed\"<\/a>\u00a0 The participants were very knowledgeable, and I felt a bit a fish out of water in the dyeing class, but I hung in there and learned a lot by listening to everyone and watching them.\u00a0 I dyed two skeins myself.\u00a0 The blue\/green one is superwash merino sock yarn, and was the first one I dyed.\u00a0 I realized when I was done that I had chosen colors that looked a lot like the Dreaming of Shetland colorway!\u00a0 So, for the second attempt, 100% alpaca yarn, I deliberately went in a different direction.\u00a0 As with everything, dyeing is pretty easy on a basic level.\u00a0 Dye, meet fiber.\u00a0 But if you want something in particular, it gets complex really fast.\u00a0 And, there are a lot of different dye processes.\u00a0 You have to pick and choose carefully to get beautiful results.\u00a0 There were some very talented people doing great stuff.\u00a0 I was just happy to emerge with something usable!<\/p>\n

Donna was teaching Lithuanian knitting, but she let me come in and share Annetarsia in the round with her classes.\u00a0 I shared some samples from Annetarsia Knits, and they got to see a first printed version.\u00a0 I am sure that they were being polite, but their enthusiastic reaction was very welcome.<\/p>\n

While we were busy talking, listening and learning, we also knit!\u00a0 I took three projects with me, and made good progress on all of them.\u00a0 Donna had to lend me a needle for the body of the Monomania sweater, because I finished both sleeves.\u00a0 I also got to see all of the projects other participants were working on, which was lots of fun.<\/p>\n

Vermont was beautiful, warm and friendly, but before I knew it, it was time to start the long trek home.\u00a0 Then I had to face the enormous pile of stuff on my desk from the days I was away, and I have been playing catch-up all week.\u00a0 When I am home, working on the computer, the cats have been staying close.\u00a0 They are happy that Mama is home.\"happy<\/a><\/p>\n

Donna gave me some beautiful and thoughtful presents to remind me of the trip.\u00a0 Jedi really likes the alpaca, and tried to steal it out of the bag!<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from bottom left: Vermont alpaca, hand-painted coasters, Lithuanian chocolate and tea, a journal, and yummy sock yarn!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel as though I haven’t stopped moving since the Marathon!\u00a0 A few days later I was on a plane for Vermont, where Cheryl Potter and Donna Druchunas hosted a series of “Dyeing to Knit” retreats.\u00a0 It was great fun, and I learned a lot.\u00a0 The participants were very knowledgeable, and I felt a bit […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}