Plaid Woven Placemats

My new crafting adventure and addiction: Weaving!! Ari's stepmom, (the same woman who gave me my spinning wheel) sent yet another...

Wedding Hats! (From Scratch)

As you well know, I've been spinning and dyeing yarn lately like a madwoman. You may have wondered: yes, but what are you going to ma...

Natural Dyeing: Blackberry

Turns out blackberries can do other things besides make delicious treats and be a pain in the garden. I love the nice purple and green that...

Processing Raw Fleece

Apart from actually shearing a sheep or wooly animal (hopefully I will get to do this someday), I have officially worked through the entire ...

Natural Dyeing: Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot)

I got a nice pale yellow on my homespun wool with Queen Anne's Lace. Also known as wild carrot, this grows wild all over the northw...

Fiber Heaven

For my birthday, my mom gave me the best present in the world : a shopping spree at  The Artful Ewe , a wonderful yarn and fiber shop in...

Black Bean and Onion Socks

These are my wooly, slightly felted, super warm, comfy socks that I made with my black bean  and  onion  dyed handspun yarn! I've only ...

Natural Dyes: Black Beans

Who would have thought that black bean juice would dye yarn a beautiful shade of blue-grey? I had a really hard time capturing the color ...

Plying Yarn: Color Experiments!

After getting inspired by a book I came across on spinning variegated sock yarn, I just HAD to try it! The next step will be to learn to dy...

Natural Dyes: Onion Skins

Now that I've gotten the hang of  spinning  yarn, I've moved onto the next project: dyeing yarn! I was going to begin my experiment...

Hatstravaganza

I've been enjoying experimenting with fair-isle knitting. I spent a lot of our recent vacation to the midwest in front of air condition...

Evergreen Craft Fair

Sometimes I need reminders that making and selling knitted items is not a very profitable business venture. Still, it was fun, and I sco...

Katie Learns to Spin

When Ari and I took a  road trip last summer , we acquired a spinning wheel along the way, which Ari's stepmom generously gave to me ...