Clothing ourselves beautifully
Last week, I posted the beginning of a vertically stripped sweater pattern. The feedback I received indicated that more pictures were desired. So, here’s a quick collection of shots of my original sweater, and my current progress on the new, and slightly modified version that I’m sharing. The sweater was knit from right to left, […]
I recently bought a phone, for travel use. The phone came with a screen protector. After a few days of travel, the screen protector lifted due to dust. So, I had a phone without any protection whatsoever. Since I still had yarn around, I decided to make a knitted phone case. I decided to use […]
In today’s fiber, yarn, and fabric world, there are a lot of different types of fibers and many of them require different techniques for washing and care. Fiber types of different shrink rates, require different finishing techniques, and are good for different purposes. But, if you’re like me and like buying unlabeled fabric from the […]
Throughout history, families would often make their own clothing. It was not until the advent of the industrial revolution that much of clothing manufacture became mechanized, moving it out of homes and into factories. Factories wanted to cut costs and increase profit, and gradually clothing began to wear out faster, and became less durable. As […]
Winter and woolly sweaters just go together, like hot chocolate and cookies. But, sometimes caring for your winter woollens is a bit of a pain. Moths show up and create holes, nails or door handles catch and pull the knit, and sometimes the washer and dryer conspire together to reduce the sweater by several sizes. […]
While woad is often associated with blue and indigo, those are not the only colors achievable from the woad plant. An entire rainbow of colors can be dyed using just the woad plant, with the happy uniqueness that all woad colors will always look complementary to other woad colors, and are colorfast. Most of my […]
