We’ve launched our podcast!

 
Introducing… “Cloudy with a Chance of Fiber”
Two fiber and craft obsessed individuals from Portland, Oregon chat and explore what it means to live in a DIY nation.
You can view our show notes and link to the podcast here:
Cloudy with a  Chance of Fiber
I’m still working on some of the technical details with the RSS and iTunes [...]

Explore the New “Black” in Craft Fashion – Crochet

The image above ( Lily Chin designed lace crochet dress found in the first issue of Interweave Crochet – 2004 under “Lace Dress”) and many others inspires me to learn and make more crochet garments that are fashionable and practical. I will always be a knitter, but in the past two years I’ve developed a [...]

Raglan Sweater Episode 4 – Sleeves

My most humblest apologies for being excessively tardy with posting this. I’ve been obsessed (obviously) with other things.  I still want to help more people make their own sweaters before the end of the year. For me it’s helping us deal with the downturn one sweater at a time. Also, it’s wonderful to see the [...]

Sock Summit Finds

I’m done.
I came away from the Sock Summit with a respectable but not an extravagant haul. Some of my favorite finds were two skeins of yarn from “Creatively Dyed Yarns.”  I apologize for the graininess of the photos, I will try to take photos in daylight soon and post them here.  I’ve become a big [...]

More video log: Coraline’s Teeny Tiny Knitting (something to pick up the spirits)

Amazing… needles the size of a human hair! What a Labor of love. Did you hear that the removed the Jonas Brothers from the 3-D theaters to reinstate Coraline!  Yes…. that’s much better.

Also, I’ve been feeling a little down in the dumps. It always helps me to listen to the “Pastoral [...]

Ultimate Geekiest Knitting: Programming a Scarf Design

I would love a knitting machine like this but I doubt I’d be able to afford it right now:

I can dream can’t I?

Crochet isn’t just for Granny anymore

Edit 1/25/09 – Please note I linked to the wrong pattern book for the Dusty Miller sweater pictured above.  The correct book is Crochet Aran Sweaters by the same author. Sadly it looks like Amazon doesn’t have this book.  It may be out of print.
Let me confess here. I once had a very low opinion [...]

Scratch that… no, unravel it

In the previous post I mentioned that I would dye machine knit blanks of my cotton yarn, assuming that I would knit all of these up in the handy knitting machine I bought for making hats and things.  I tried making a long blank with three 109 yard skeins of cotton and discovered that this [...]

Needed some color to brighten up my winter

Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the snow for now. Hopefully.
I meant to post more photos from the dye work I did in December. I finally got around to snapping pictures of the more of the skeins of yarn I dyed.  Here they are for your viewing pleasure.
Note, I’ve discovered the fine art of squeezing [...]

Escaping the Heat

As I write this, the day after our beach trip, storm clouds are forming above us.  So my pleas for relief have been heard. There’s something completely unnatural about living in a hot climate. But I suppose someone who grew up in the Arizona desert might beg to differ. The overly moisturized environment of the [...]