Crafty Katie

a collection of clever and crafty creations

Friday, August 17, 2012

Natural Dyeing: Blackberry

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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...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Processing Raw Fleece

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Apart from actually shearing a sheep or wooly animal (hopefully I will get to do this someday), I have officially worked through the entire ...
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Natural Dyeing: Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot)

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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...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Fiber Heaven

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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...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Black Bean and Onion Socks

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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 ...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Natural Dyes: Black Beans

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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 ...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Plying Yarn: Color Experiments!

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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...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Natural Dyes: Onion Skins

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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...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Hatstravaganza

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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...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Evergreen Craft Fair

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Sometimes I need reminders that making and selling knitted items is not a very profitable business venture. Still, it was fun, and I sco...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Katie Learns to Spin

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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 ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Wacky Felted Basket

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If you don't know my housemate Genevieve, she is a wonderful, wild, and wacky lady. For her birthday, I made her this felted basket to ...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Fibonacci Scarf and Prime Factorization Hat

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What do you knit for a mathematician that is aesthetically pleasing and also intellectually interesting? Voila! For Ari's birthday I mad...
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