In Danish, black currants are called sunberries. I wanted to match the exact colour of black currant jam for a yarn and with a bit of fiddling I think I’ve come pretty close. At least to the image in my mind, and that’s what matters, right? It actually takes a bit of skill making acid dyes (the ones I use anyway) not look so synthetic, but I’ll keep working on it.
I’m going to dye this yarn:
to knit this dress: Continue reading “Sunberry slip”
I’m participating in a sweater spin-along with the Danish Spinners, a somewhat long project for most of us since we all pretty much try to do 100 projects at a time….
Originally I just wanted to spin these 4 chunks of Shetland wool, dye the white and the others as is. But… I couldn’t really get started on the browns… I also didn’t want to knit a stranded sweater. I’ve had various ideas how to design a pattern using the 4 shades without making it look like Fair Isle, but…
Continue reading “Sweater SAL 1”
Do you ever go against your own intuition and do things by the book or because someone told you so with their own inner conviction – and failed? Yes, I fail when I go my own way too, but my biggest “DUH – idiot” moments are always when I did not listen to my inner voice. Maybe I was even confounded by my own logic, pushing the touchy-feely stuff aside in favour of “science”. I’m a messy methodologist, laid back nitpick kinda person. Don’t tell me what that means, I don’t wanna know.
I really wish I’d learn not to. Ok, I do learn something from some of those mistakes too, but feeling stupid always annoys me. 😉
So when Ashford sells their rainbow colour kit as scarlet (fire engine red), blue and yellow, I thought there was probably some hidden chemical secret that would make this work, although I KNOW that magenta is really the purest primary colour for blending. (in the case of Ashford dyes, this is called hot pink) Continue reading “Trusting your instincts”
