Dyeing to Knit session 3 has been so busy and full but we still managed to find time for a visit to the local Log Cabin Alpaca Farm. Great info on raising, shearing, and general info. Even time to shop. The farm has some babies that were born in July 2013.
Belarusian stamp Motifs
Here’s what I bought yesterday. 700+ yards of lace weight from Jupiter Moon Farm and 400 yards of sock yarn from Now and Zen, a local indie dyer.
These socks, made with qiviut-blend sock yarn from Arctic Qiviut are the softest, warmest things that have ever touched my feet. With temperatures not rising above freezing for the last week here in Vermont, I was very tempted to start wearing them before I took photos or wove in the ends! The socks are knitted […]
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Today is Stories In Stitches 2 layout revisions day! Gotta get this baby to the printer soon. Sign up for the Sheeptoshawl.com Newsletter on the home page to get the latest updates to this book.
I’ve been reading about the way Russia treated the Jews in the nineteenth century an it’s not any different than the way the USA treated the Native Americans. In some ways it’s not as bad as the way the USA treated the Indians. That’s what we called them, even when I was growing up in […]
This is the original Geneva counterpane from Stories In Stitches™ 1, where you can read the story of how this lovely antique came to me. I’d like to show you something today that I didn’t write about in Stories In Stitches, and that I didn’t notice until after I had owned the counterpane for over […]
I recently sent a photo of an antique sock to my friend Anne Berk. I can’t show you that sock (you’ll have to wait for Stories In Stitches™ volume 3!) but I will show you some others from the same collection in St. Petersburg: Anne replied, “I was thinking about this sock on the way […]
There’s still room in my free webinar to introduce ”Travel the World with Donna Druchunas,” my new iPad & iPhone app. https://www.knitcompanion.com/designer-series/travel-the-world-of-knitting/ The webinar will be July 27 at 2PM EDT (Other time zones: 1PM Mountain, 11AM Pacific, 7PM London, 4AM July 28 Sydney) The webinar will feature an introduction by me, a tour of […]