Tag: Dyeing

» in which she finds pastels


I had big plans for yesterday. I was going to finish cleaning out my office and get started on the back room at the store. Instead, I was tied to the computer for quite a while in the morning, trying to get payroll tax info to the accountant. In the end I [...]

Posted on: April 17, 2008 by Meg | Tags: | no comments

» what the heck have I been doing?


I was gently reminded the other day that it’s been a looooooong time since I’ve had anything to say here. One might be inclined to think I’d just dropped off the face of the earth. Nothing that exciting has happened, I’m afraid. I’ve mostly just been keeping my nose to the grindstone [...]

Posted on: February 29, 2008 by Meg | Tags: , | no comments

» Obligatory Post-Christmas Update


Do you hear that? That’s the sound of millions of children world-wide, young and old, typing up their obligatory post-Christmas blog updates. So here I am, clicking my heels (and the keys on the keyboard), adding my 2¢ to the blogosphere this fine Thursday morning. (Okay, I lied. It’s not fine. [...]

Posted on: December 27, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , , , , , , | no comments

» I dyed and went to secret pal heaven


It’s late, and I really ought to be in bed already, but since I’m in the middle of waiting on a load of laundry to finish so I can throw it into the dryer, I figured I might as well take a few moments to write a quick post. These past two days have been the [...]

Posted on: July 09, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | no comments

» Spinning straw into. . . brick?


When I got up this morning, I checked on the yarn drying out on the porch, and I was a little sad to notice that the yarn was very stiff and rough-feeling. The dyeing process seemed to have stripped it of the softness and loftiness that it possessed in its undyed state. I called [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , | 5 comments

» Spinning silk into straw


It’s been an extraordinarily busy weekend - hanging out with one friend before he left the country for a few weeks to honeymoon, attending another friend’s graduation and meeting her parents and some other friends for dinner that evening, consoling another friend who’s going through a post-graduation life crisis… Didn’t leave me with much time [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2007 by Liz | Tags: , , , | 2 comments