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July 12, 2017
The start of Yarn Quest! :: Knitting & Nerdy
This is just the beginning! Join in the Yarn Quest by grabbing a pattern here. It's all organised by Tania Richter. You follow along a story as you knit- and the choices you make determine what happens in your knitting, you roll the dice to determine your fate and your double-knitting charts! It's nerdy and I'm obsessed!!!
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June 23, 2017
Yarn Shop Day 2017 :: Shop Talk
Always a good event, so many people popping in to support us. It means the world. Your local yarn shop loves you!
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June 22, 2017
June 11, 2014
Southdown Pencil Roving. :: Wool on The Wheel.
Something new and fun I've been playing with is spinning up singles. They are harder than they look, and take a lot of getting used to, but very satisfying when you see the bobbin filling up so fast! I finally felt like I had the technique down enough to try some thicker singles and got out my delicious 100% British Southdown. I ordered a bump of this for the shop, knowing that I'd find something great to do with it. Originally I thought I was just going to make similar yarns to my BFL collection, but with a different fibre. Nope. Sometimes things change for the better.
Southdown is a little more robust and perfect for pencil rovings. My tension is still a little tight and I absolutely can't watch anything while I spin this (audiobooks and podcasts only) but there is so much joy in the fat fluffy twists and filling up 4 bobbins in a few hours (and knowing I don't have to ply them!) that makes Pencil Roving a new favourite of mine. Just take a look at this big stack of full skeins that I produced in under a week:Don't you just want to cuddle it?! These are going to look so great dyed, I can already tell. Thinking I'll have to sell these in 100g skeins because they are so thick and juicy. Yum yum yum. Fibre Diet.
Love, Kimxo
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April 09, 2013
One from the vaults- The Test 2009 :: Video & Animation.
This video was also made during my A-level animation course at school. It was a test for multiple processes like using acetate and filming something backwards as well as cutout.
When I look back at this, it makes me just want to play with stop motion again. This was done in a few hours using very simple techniques. If you've always wanted to try animation but never have- I say go for it!
Love, Kim xo.
p.s. remember to like & subscribe on youtube if you haven't already. I'm making this a regular thing. New videos every tuesday!
When I look back at this, it makes me just want to play with stop motion again. This was done in a few hours using very simple techniques. If you've always wanted to try animation but never have- I say go for it!
Love, Kim xo.
p.s. remember to like & subscribe on youtube if you haven't already. I'm making this a regular thing. New videos every tuesday!
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April 03, 2013
Yellows and Reds and Pinks. :: Natural Dyes.
Mmm. Delicious Madder Reds.
Mmm. Bright Buckthorn Yellows.
Let's put the second exhausts together and see what we get...
... some Pale Peachy Oranges:
I love it that Natural Dyeing is always surprising me with it's colour combos. Always blow away that these colours come from nature and plants. The earth really does provide enough.
Some more yummy eye candy & experiements:
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March 27, 2013
Indigo and friends. :: Natural Dyes.
With Indigo, it's a slightly different process.
You make the dyebath through a bunch of science like mixtures, and 'oxidize' the water (which sounded really high-tech to me). You don't need to pre-treat the wool at all, except wet it. The tricky part comes when you actually get down to the dyeing part. You can't leave the wool in too long or it will 'contaminate' the rest of the dyebath. And, get this- although you're dying it blue the dyebath is yellow. YES YELLOW. When you lift the wool out of the dyebath it changes magically before your eyes. MAGIC.
I nearly squealed in delight at my potion brilliance. (Slughorn would be proud.) You can only use the dyebath once because as soon as it gets oxygen in it- it turns blue and you can't reuse it. You can, however, re-dunk wool to create darker shades.
This is a sample of my first Indigo experiments (done in Nov 2012).
(From right to left: Once in Indigo. Several times in Indigo. Grey fleece several times in Indigo.)
Also, because I'm an overachiever (Not really, I just get excited) I tried overdying with some wool that had previously been naturally dyed Yellow.
Yellow + Blue = Green!
Because it was my first time, I only tried little bits and played around with times. The darker blue I 'dunked' several times. I even tried leaving some bits in the remainer of the dyebath once I was done (for like an hour) but it didn't look much darker.
You like? Kimxo
Also, because I'm an overachiever (Not really, I just get excited) I tried overdying with some wool that had previously been naturally dyed Yellow.
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February 26, 2013
Making swatches... :: Workspace & Knitting Machine.
A couple of peeks into my studio while making swatches...Those colours make me crazy with happiness. :] Kimxo
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January 25, 2013
Snowy. :: My life & photographs.
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