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Continue reading →: Arts Fest
Just when you thought you were safe, because Penn State football doesn’t start up again for months… comes Arts Fest: just as many people, and much longer! Many blocks of downtown are closed to accommodate the many artists there to display and sell their works, and the 125,000 people who…
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Continue reading →: Spin, span, spun. And dyed.
The Gotland is all spun! There’s two skeins of S-spun/Z-plied and two skeins of Z-spun/S-plied. Why, you might ask? For fun with weaving! More to come… I realized as I was taking the picture that I skeined them all in the same direction regardless of yarn twist. It probably doesn’t…
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Continue reading →: Friday Postscript – Flowers
Things with color are once more starting to appear in my garden. The first of the new round of blooms were white, though: (I, er, took these earlier this week and forgot to post them. Or maybe last weekend. Or something.) The surprise when we moved from New Mexico to…
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Continue reading →: Friday Photos
I can’t decide, so you get two, both summer flowers. I looked longingly at some of the icy ones (though I wasn’t so pleased when I took them), but decided that I would save them for a more seasonally-appropriate time. Happy news – I finished the project due Tuesday on…
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Continue reading →: Cherry bomb
I wanted to make something for myself as the first project from the solar yarn cooker. So, time to experiment with painted roving. My goal has always been to get solid, even color, so this multicolored thing is a bit foreign to me, but I like the way other people’s…
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Continue reading →: Fun in the sun
I was wandering the Internet on Saturday morning, and ran across Pippi Knee Socks, which led me to an article on dyeing in the Summer 2007 issue of KnittySpin, in which the author used a solar oven for dyeing, which led me to plans for a solar oven (by way…
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Continue reading →: Friday photo
Plants are one of my favorite subjects. Pretty, ugly, wet, dry, flowers or not. I think they are all visually fascinating.
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Continue reading →: Some quick pics
Here’s a quick peek at some of the dyed wool. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to take better photos and get all caught up on the article I want to write about it. (Hah! All caught up, funny! I think maybe I might have been briefly on top of things…
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Continue reading →: Counting it up
Time spent in meetings and meeting related activities in the past 3 days: 33 hours Proportion of that time spent knitting: about 30% Socks finished: about 3/4 a sock, but in two different pairs. The bright stripy ones are done except for finish work, and the first jaywalker has a…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts on dyeing
This is going to be short, and alas unillustrated since darkness arrived long before I got around to photographing anything… I need a tenth-gram scale. And I need a source of hot water closer than the bathtub. And I need a heat source other than the kitchen stove. Picture me…
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
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