I first discovered Philsophers Wool a few years ago, when I stumbled upon a book of their Fair Isle sweater patterns in a library in Colorado. Since then I’ve admired them for their commitment to producing local, natural, and fair trade yarns–unlike most wool buyers, Philosophers Wool pays farmers a fair price for their [...]
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A visit to Philosophers Wool
Posted in knitting, spinning, sustainability, yarn stores, tagged philosophers wool on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
brief update
Posted in finished object, knitting, spinning, yarn stores on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Clearly I deserve some sort of award for Blog Neglect, but the briefest of updates as to my goings-on in fibre arts these days:
- More classes at Ariadne;
- Potential involvement in an upcoming issue of Twist Collective;
- Devoting time to building an inventory to sell at Puces Pop this October (hopefully);
- Handpainted spinning fibre. [...]
no more plastic shopping bags
Posted in knitting, sustainability on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I was recently surprised to learn that those ubiquitous accessories of consumer culture, polyethylene plastic shopping bags, have been banned in multiple countries (unfortunately not the US or Canada). They’ve been banned for good reason, as not only are they cluttering up both cities and countryside, choking animals and contaminating soil as they photodegrade [...]
pondering the 100-mile yarn diet
Posted in knitting, spinning, sustainability on April 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Even though the phrase ‘carbon footprint’ has only recently entered my official vocabulary, for a long time I’ve made the effort to shop locally whenever possible, especially when it comes to food. It makes a lot of sense to me: things are fresher (and often therefore healthier), there’s a better chance that small-scale [...]
babies everywhere! (and Ariadne Knits)
Posted in finished object, knitting, ravelry, yarn stores on January 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have so many friends who are having kids right now (and oddly, all of them have had girls so far), so it’s bootie/baby sock mania for me. I found this pattern for lacy baby socks and quickly knit up this pair:
The pattern calls for size 0 needles and the smallest I have are [...]
bon voyage, wee tiny socks
Posted in finished object, knitting on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The wee tiny socks, ready for their new role as mail art:
My first attempt at using watercolours since kindergarten. Oh, and that’s a ship diagram between the socks (with navigational lights).
Adventures in felting
Posted in felting, finished object, knitting on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t have a lot of experience with felting (or, to be more correct in this case, fulling). In fact, I can only think of one felted object I made before I decided to jump in and make both a felted sheep and a felted bag. Not the easiest task when you only [...]
wee tiny socks
Posted in finished object, knitting on October 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Just a brief update of some wee tiny socks I knit for a mail art swap.
I used this pattern and my smallest needles (US size 2) and the finest yarns I had: some fingering-weight unknown green stuff (the bag says “100% fibre inconnu” though the burn test points to mostly wool with some synthetic [...]
vintage Red Cross knitting
Posted in knitting, vintage on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I ventured out into the chilly autumn rain (and forgot my umbrella) to go to a fabric flea market in the Glebe. I don’t have much need for fabric (I’m a lapsed quilter, and never learned to sew on a machine, though I’d like to change both of those at some point) but [...]
coffee swap questionnaire
Posted in coffee swap, knitting on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Having been sick for a week now, just about the only thing I have the energy to post is this questionnaire for the Knitter’s Coffee Swap 3 (because I clearly don’t have enough caffeine in my life already):
1. Whole bean or ground? I’m going to say whole bean, and use this as a reason [...]
