Yep, she’s done it again; designer Hunter Hammersen has produced a third volume of her gorgeous Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet series. I’ve written about the first two volumes; they feature beautiful designs, a carefully curated selection of (mostly) handdyed yarns, and fascinating ties to vintage nature prints. Let’s take a closer look at the newest volume (and then let’s give one…
Summer Search Raffle! Prizes, prizes, prizes…..
Today, my third annual raffle to benefit Summer Search: Philadelphia opens. My friends and readers have come forward with an impressive selection of prizes. FYI: in past years, prize donors have been so generous, that nearly everybody who enters wins a prize! First of all, let me tell those of you who aren’t yet familiar with Summer Search about this…
Month three: Chianti
Time keeps zipping along and we are already at the third month of the Pairings Yarn Club. It’s been such a wonderful project and this month, I was particularly excited to see the interplay between yarn, dyeing and pattern. We started with a lovely laceweight blend of merino, angora, tencel and cashmere. Brooke suggested we riff off the theme Chianti,…
I’m krazy for Kirkwood
You probably heard me talking about my teaching trip to Kirkwood Knittery, outside of St. Louis, MO. Kirkwood Knittery is owned by my friends Brooke Nico and Robyn Schrager, and is an absolutely delightful place to spend a weekend. Although I grumbled a bit about having to be at the airport early enough to make a 7:00 a.m. flight on…
Summer Search raffle is coming!
A quick heads-up: my annual Summer Search raffle, to benefit the wonderful nonprofit organization that helps mentor at-risk urban kids so that they finish high school successfully and go on to college, will be going live in a week or so. Right now, I’m humbly asking anyone who’d like to donate a prize to contact me by leaving a comment…
Heads up: Bartram in the hizzy!*
I just this moment returned from dropping off a freshly-dyed batch of yarns at Loop. There are some skeins of handdyed Francesca and Hannah and close to twenty skeins of Bartram, the beautiful, softly-spun merino single that I am dyeing exclusively for Loop! Look at some of the lovely colors I created. In fact, you might want to pop on…
Spinners: You need this book
Several years ago, at one yarn show or another, I met a gorgeous redhead named Beth Smith. I didn’t realize it at the time, because she was so funny and humble and warm, but Beth is a goddess of spinning. She’s had her hand on more sheep than James Herriott — taking tangled, grassy, greasy fresh-shorn fleeces and seemingly effortlessly…
A new yarn (and free shipping this weekend)
A while back, I had a fingering-weight yarn in my Black Bunny Fibers shop that was a marl — different-colored plies twisted around each other. Each ply took the dye in a slightly different shade of the same color, giving a funky barbershop-style effect. Not everyone likes the marled look, but it’s fun to play with and I got some…
Coming events….and a FO
Maybe I’ve been in denial lately about how quickly summer is winding down and autumn is edging in. So it probably makes sense for me to announce some of the events that I’ll be attending over the course of the next few months. September 12-13: Kirkwood Knittery, St. Louis, MO I am so excited to see Kirkwood Knittery, the shop…