Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Winter 2018 Yarn Club – which I actually put into the mail about four weeks ago, but you know how I like to make sure nobody gets spoiled… so I put up the posts a month later. The theme this time around is …
New in the shop (well, I’ve had them once before, as a limited item; now they’re regulars!)… gradient sock blanks! These are the five colors that have been chosen. An experiment in gradient colors, these sock blanks go from dark to light to dark again, and will give whatever you …
Off the needles: Scrappy Eleanor Name: Scrappy Eleanor Pattern: Lady Eleanor Entrelac Stole by Kathleen Power Johnson Needle: US 6 Yarn used: a variety of colors in my Andre and Tiptree bases Started: October 8 2015 Completed: January 14 2016
Off the needles: Everything After August Name: Everything After August Pattern: Everything After August by Lorena Haldeman Needle: US 1 Yarn used: HaldeCraft HandDyed Yolen in Irish Coffee Started: October 7 2015 Completed: November 20 2015
Off the needles: Mindless Name: Mindless Pattern: Stockinette toe-up socks with an afterthought heel Needle: US 1 Yarn used: HaldeCraft HandDyed Anne in a colorway I’ve forgotten. A test, maybe? Started: April 29 2015 Completed: August 5 2015
Cross-posted on my work blog, but copied here so you can see what I’ve been up to lately! There is so much going on in HaldeCraft right now I almost don’t even know where to start telling you – the new things? The restocked things? The things on sale? New …
… because my dogs give TERRIBLE advice. Feel free to space out now if you’re not into yarn.
Since Monday of last week (not yesterday Monday, but the Monday before that) my daily schedule has been the following: Wake up. Start the coffee. Start the dye pots that I set up the night before. Pour coffee. Let dye pots heat for one hour (while drinking coffee and catching …
I mentioned earlier the contest I’m running this year on Ravelry, 12 in ’14. Here’s my first FO! Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre in Cinnamon Sugar Test Pattern: Maeva by Stefanie Bold Started: 01/03/14 Finished: 01/29/14
Are you a yarn lover? A HaldeCraft yarn lover? Are you on Ravelry? If you answered yes to all three questions…. I have an -along for you. This is loosely inspired by -alongs like the “Self Imposed Sock Club”, which is where The Yarn Harlot suggested sock knitters with “too …
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Emma in “Buttercream” (solid) and Lorna’s Laces Honor in “Chocolate” Pattern: driftwood by Isabell Kraemer Started: August 14, 2013 Completed: October 24, 2013 Notes: Knit mostly on the road trip to West Virginia and back, I love, love, love, love, love how this turned out. I plan on wearing …
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre in “The 70s Have Called” Pattern: Fissility by Lorena Haldeman Started: Sept 15, 2013 Completed: Oct 21, 2013 Notes: Knit for a friend, but as I write this I’m worried they won’t fit; hopefully by the time you read this, though, I will have mailed them to her …
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Ursula in “None of Your Beeswax” (solid) and String Theory Colorworks Force in “Orchard Bee” Pattern: plain stockinette Started: July 28, 2013 Completed: August 30, 2013 Notes: Knit for the kit Caitlin and I were putting together.
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Octavia in “Irish Coffee” Pattern: Quinault by Marjorie Walter Started: June 30, 2013 Completed: July 20, 2013
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tiptree in “Bounty Hunter” and a complimentary green for the bottom since I was worried I was running out of my scrap yarn Pattern: Herringbone Bootees by Zoë Mellor Started: July 10, 2013 Completed: July 14, 2013
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tiptree in “Mad Tea Party” Pattern: Fissility by Lorena Haldeman Started: June 5, 2013 Completed: June 29, 2013 Notes: Crazy!
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tepper in “Mad Tea Party” Pattern: Crocheted Circle Scarf by Sakura Knit Started: June 19, 2013 Completed: June 25, 2013 Notes: Lookit me all crochetin’ and shit!
Seriously, y’all. ALL OF IT. ALL THE YARN, EVER. Except for the 25 pounds of undyed yarn that showed up on my door the day before yesterday, but other than that? ALL THE YARN. Because I am completely insane, I decided it would be a great idea to bring in …
My friend Caitlin and I are over-achievers. At the height of a three-week period in July when we were both busy as fuck all get out, we also worked on this together…. Bonnie and Clyde. Sid and Nancy. Harold and Maude. There are some names that just go together like, …
Because I’m not 100% sure. It may be this one, with no shallots and about six times as much bacon. Seriously, when is only three pieces of bacon good for a whole casserole?! Pff. ANYWAY. I made some stoneware casserole dishes, and Tim claimed one before I even had them …
OK, not really, but close. And as much as I hate it when people say “hey, I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging!”… I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging! Dye weeks really take it out of me; I have to start the dye pots pretty much as soon as I get …
So, I took on a wholesale order. I KNOW. I always said I’d never do that (horror stories from other indie dyers who have wholesaled sort of put me off, even though we never treated people we bought from, badly, when we had Hanks) but the person at the shop …
We’re doing a HaldeCraft Knit/Crochet-a-long (“HaldeAlong”) over on Ravelry, and here’s what I’m starting with — I’m using the basic instructions from Barbara Walker’s Knitting from the Top Down book, the chapter on capes and ponchos, with a bit from the section on sweaters so that I can add a …
