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Superwash Sunday

I’ve been dyeing up some of our original colourways over the past few days and they have been posted in the shop as of about 5 minutes ago…

It’s an ALL Superwash Sock yarn update today, including our original colourways: Fondant, River, Stillwater, Snapdragon, Firefly, Rainforest, and Boheme. These colourways were fun to dye up again and I sort of miss them… it was a reunion of sorts.

Sample Knitting | Also, if anyone out there is interested in doing some sample knitting and also has a bit of experience with “loom knitting” please drop a line to Martha Burley at marthab@quarto.com.

Knit + Spin | Remember also that our little knit-in/spin-in is happening at the studio this coming Saturday from 1 pm to 4 pm! We’d love to see you there! Just drop me a line to RSVP.

Done.

During a quick visit with Irene last week, I picked up a big ol’ ski shuttle from her and finished off my Boheme Blanket. Just a couple hours of uninterrupted weaving time allowed me to complete the yardage, hemstitch the ends, full and brush the whole blanket. Similar to Michelle’s GBGB, this blanket measured 41.5″ x 84″ before fulling and 36.5″ x 69″ after fulling in the washer.

There was a bunch of warp ends that didn’t make it into this particular blanket and so I’ve tied them onto the loom already, randomly spacing them out. I’ve dyed more Briggs & Little wool in dark brown which will fill in the gaps. I like to think of this next blanket as the sister blanket to the Boheme Blanket. It’ll be brown overall with the mohair and warp in dark brown… the leftover warp from the Boheme blanket will lend a couple flashes of fuschia in the midst of all that brown… Kind of like when you take a chunk of bread dough and save it to incorporate with the next bread baking session. The subsequent loaves have more depth, more flavour, more maturity… Taking a chunk of one warp and distributing it into the next blanket might be a little haphazard, but I like to think of it as growth and learning as subsequent projects unfold.