Shaped
Shaped, our spiffy little shapely shape, is out! This one started with me looking at the start of a slipper and wondering what would happen if I played with it for a while. And the only reason I have the time and space to chase ideas like that is because of the good folks on Patreon who support my work every month. So it seems only fair to give them the pattern. This one is only available on Patreon through at least the end of the year. Anyone with an Utter Nonsense ($6/month) or Rampant Nonsense ($12/month) membership between now [...]
Half
This 'longer than anticipated' bit is apparently the theme of the project. But I did get two of the colors done. I have one tshirt and two napkins (both 100% cotton) to dye in each of the four colors. The kit I got had you first soak them with gallnut for tannins, then with alum as mordant, and I did all of the shirts and napkins together at the same time. I worked on turning the powders into potions while that went on. For each of the four colors, I first did one napkin and one tshirt in the dye. [...]
Potions
Hmm, so this is a longer process than anticipated. Turning the powder into colorful potions took most of the day. So turning the white fabric into colorful fabric will have to wait until tomorrow. And my kitchen is now shockingly clean because it got shockingly filthy along the way and required a thorough scrub.
A + B = ?
I have both a pile of white tshirts and napkins... Aaaaaaaand a natural dye kit... And here shortly I expect to have neither. I'll report back.
Yard trash
First, you wander the yard to collect whatever colorful weeds are available at the moment... Then you play with the aforementioned colorful weeds... Then you take pictures of them, possibly sneaking some knitting in while you're at it... Then, some time next week, you show them off in a pattern!
Lapse
My self control wavered. I needed one more. An embroidered one at that.
Exuberance
Look, I suffer from a certain tendency towards...shall we say exuberance? Yes. Let's call it that. Far more polite than some of the words that come to mind. And yes, yes I have now secured a steady supply of tentacles. Now for the assembly.
Lapse
I have suffered an error in judgement. Or perhaps not quite an error. More of a lapse. I was overcome with exuberance. These things happen. It's unavoidable. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go source some tentacles...
Tense
My grafting has a tendency to be too tight. What can I say. The world is stressful. Perhaps it's making me tense. The way I fix it is to do my graft very very very loosely. Then, start at the first end of the graft, and tease the extra yarn along toward the final end of the graft. It only takes a moment, and it's much much much easier to take up the slack than to try and work the perfect amount of yarn back down the graft if you work it too tightly.
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