It’s a wonderful thing, to see in print a project that started out as an idea in your own head, brought into existence by your own hands! I worked hard on planning, spinning, knitting and writing during the first weeks of 2020, and sent everything off to Spin Off magazine in early March. Then, just as I was sighing with… Continue Reading Behind the Scenes: Cloister Hood
Continue reading →Before we get into a few other ways to spin hand-dyed braids, let’s pause and look at three basic types of ‘dye jobs’, in no particular order. One favorite is the randomly-spotted braid. These are as fun to dye as they are to browse through! The colors, wherever they come from on the color wheel, have been applied in generally… Continue Reading Dyeing Styles and Spinning Techniques
Continue reading →In the last post, I talked about spinning hand-dyed braids in fractals, using a short section of roving I dyed in (basically) three colors. The resulting knitted swatches demonstrated the tweedy color-shifting variations, and we looked at trying to predict how the yarns would turn out before starting to spin. Be aware that spinning fractals is somewhat predictable only for… Continue Reading More Flippin’ Fractals
Continue reading →One popular method for spinning hand-dyed braids is the fractal technique. A simple definition of ‘fractal’ is when “similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales”. In fractal art, “the same pattern repeats over and over”. Translated into spin-speak, this means splitting a hand-dyed braid into multiple sections and spinning them end-to-end, then plying the results. Start by stripping the braid… Continue Reading Flippin’ Fractals
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