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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
