Category: dyeing

  • a bit of knit and purl

    It’s been a nice weekend. Staying in, doing some knitting, watching tv (the Tudors and just starting True Blood), eating. I started a pair of plain socks out of Lorna’s Laces (colour: Cedar) and they’re going astonishingly fast! Well on the way to becoming the fastest pair of socks I’ve ever knit, actually. I started […]

  • a new adventure

    Megan (and her husband James) have been hard at work transforming the basement apartment of the store into a swish dye studio! I’ve been down there dyeing yarns for the store for awhile now, but over the last couple weeks it’s really been transformed – it was a touch sketchy before, also, orange. And there […]

  • warning: blurry photos ahead.

    Gahhhhh. Normally I use an old Olympus digital camera – 2.1 MP, no manual features, sloooow. But the photos come out fine, generally pretty clear and good colour. I’ve used another camera, a Sony Cybershot (DSC-T1) a few times before and had it be fine too. But lately all I can seem to get with […]