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  • Dyeing Roving, a Quasi-Tutorial

    One of the treats that I brought home from Pearl Fibre Arts was 3 bags of luxury, roving, for me to try my hand at dyeing roving myself. That would be the ultimate for me – spinning my own hand dyed yarn and then weaving/knitting with it! If I could raise the sheep in the…

  • Fiber Tour Stop 2 – Pearl Fiber Arts

    The second fiber shop we visited in Portland is an adorable store tucked away in the très-cool Pearl neighbourhood, called, appropriately, Pearl Fiber Arts. I was greeted by the super friendly Cindy, who showed me around the product-packed store, highlighting the local yarns and fibers when my eyes alighted upon the coolest stuff. They have…

  • I don’t want to dye alone….

    Last Sunday, myself and my favourite likeminded nerdy girls held the much-anticipated ‘dying party’ at our (subsequently trashed) condo. Rayna and Leslie came over bearing bearing armfuls of fibre and edibles, (Tito retreated to the bedroom with the computer and headphones), and we did our best to make the apartment look like a herd of…

  • The Aurora Roving, A Novel.

    The incredibly talented Leslie has finished spinning up my aurora batt, and what a beauty! I had this idea, that I would knit this into a scarf and wear it to the arctic the day I fulfill my bucket list of shooting the aurora from somewhere north of 55 degrees. But then I thought about the…

  • Aurora Roving in Progress

    Remember this lovely thing? It’s finally being spun, and by someone who knows what they’re about no less. That person is not Mouffette, though she is clearly instrumental in the process. It’s being worked up by the immensely talented Leslie Ordal, with an eye to keeping the different colour sections intact. It’s already looking pretty delicious…

  • Aurora Roving

    Inglenook Fibers is a hand dyed fiber studio located just outside of Boston, and it’s one of the many ways that the Sisters of the Holy Nativity Convent are totally self supporting through craft. A few weeks ago one of my pen pals there, Mother Macrina, wrote to me and asked if she could use…

  • ‘Cleo’ – the Making of :)

    I apologize for the image heavy post – and remember I’m a complete rookie at this, so I’m sure there are lots of things I could have done better – but here we go! I got my colours together (obvious, right?) a foam felting board and all my needles. I rolled up the roving very…

  • Another great spinning quote

    Just a photo of my gorgeous new drop spindle, and the work I’ve started, and a quote from Elizabeth Zimmerman :) Feel free to click for a larger copy and save it!

  • White on White; photographing fluff

    Leslie Ordal came over last night for some last minute photography of her spinning work for a piece she’s writing in Interweave Magazine. We didn’t have a lot of time to plan the shoot, and the material was all white. White fluff, spun into white yarn. With the challenge of coming up with something artistic…

  • Evil Boxes of Fluff

    There is a box with a spindle and some fluff sitting in a corner of the apartment that I’ve cast guilty looks at every evening for weeks. I thought ‘I’ve let it go so long I probably suck at it now, better to not open the box and find out!’. I’ve been travelling so much…