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Scarves
Posted 9/19/2010 9:30pm by Eugene Wyatt.
Laura didn't want to be photographed but I talked her into modeling her scarf. She knit our worsted yarn with #17 needles not to lose the softness and the loft of the Saxon wool by pulling it tightly as she would have with smaller needles.
The color is unique; it is not repeatable by intention. It is a color composed with natural dyes. I dipped yarn, first dyed a weld yellow, into an indigo pot then quickly pulled it out again. Voila! The weld with an irregular blue indigo over it is seen in subtle shades of green.
Posted 3/22/2009 7:39pm by Eugene Wyatt.
Cables in Deep Indigo
Aileen came by the stand to get two more skeins of indigo for her mom to finish this lovely scarf. Cable patterns take more yarn; perhaps someone can tell us how much additional yarn would be required by a cabled pattern compared to a stockinette pattern. Half again as much, or more, or less?
I hope she wears it by when finished. Spring is almost here, yet we still need wool to keep warm. This winter has been colder than any I can remember, not by its extremes but by its constancy: the unrelenting sub-freezing temperatures with nary a warm spell have been unusual.