Sometimes, when you want to work on a crafty project you grab all the colors to see what works well together. And sometimes you never know until you start knitting. In this week’s chicken knitting chronicles, my boss handed me a skein of some WILD yarn and asked me to knit it up so she…
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Yarn + Ink: NaKniSweMo Edition
This past November was NaKniSweMo, which I’ve discussed on the blog in past years. Basically, during November when writers are trying to pen a novel of 50K words, us crazy knitters are trying to knit a sweater of 50K stitches. This year mine is really more of a NaKniSwe-Almost since I’ve still got half a…
Yarn & Ink: Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows
The days are perfect in Kansas City right now. Chilly mornings and evenings, and glorious 50’s and 60’s during the day. But those freezing mornings do make me want a cup of hot cocoa, which goes perfectly with this week’s knitting! While I found plenty of rich chocolate browns in my ink swatches, I don’t…
Yarn + Ink: This IS a spring chicken.
This week I looked at the palette I was knitting with and knew it would make a fun set of ink swatches. My regrets are that I don’t have the perfect butter yellow, or that light almost pea green. But I muddled through and selected: Robert Oster Green Olive J. Herbin Vert Olive PenBBS #219…
Yarn & Ink: Delightfully Springy
This week I’m working on a fun new chicken for The City Girl Farm, so it’s time for another ink + yarn palette. This yarn is mostly natural (white) with hints of tons of other colors. There’s a bright carrot orange, a pretty pea green, an orangey-red, and an aqua to name just a few.…
Yarn + Ink: Perfectly Primary
With all the amazing ink colors out there, sometime I just go back to the primary colors and marvel that these 3 hues can be mixed in various proportions to make all the other colors! Recently I finished a sweater that had the primary colors, plus turquoise thrown in. So I had to search through…
Yarn and Ink: What’s in that pink?
It is now mid-November which means two fundamental things: I will forget that I need to take pictures early in the day, meaning they’ll now be badly (or artificially lit). You’d think after 44 years on earth I’d remember that fact, but every year I repeat the mistake. November is NaKniSweMo. For a little history…