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Friday, September 02, 2011

Little Weaver That Could

Let us see, I have made the transitions from knitting to spinning to dying to carding to felting to natural dying and now drum roll please to weaving. In all honesty, I have done one prior project on a borrowed triangle loom. I enjoyed it so much that when I saw this little lovely 4 inch square loom, I couldn't help but snatch it up.

Yes, the bottom one is knit;)

I have very much so enjoyed weaving on it, but there are a few little changes I would make to it such as the nail spacing and not forgetting a nail when making it. But those are little things easy to ignore in the grand scheme of mini loom usage;) These pictures were taken a few days ago and since that time, the unused sock yarn has been turned into more lovely little squares that I am thinking would make a fun little lap blanket if I ever have enough!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair

The week end of August 20-21 found the LunabudKnits booth at the Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair in Newark Ohio. The setting was absolutely wonderful. All of the vendors were indoors in the Reese Center on OSU's/Central Ohio Tech Campus; completely air conditioned and out of the rain!

It just wouldn't be right if our fun little handpainted Louet S17 wasn't there to say hello to everyone:) Of course it is cushioned with a few of the art batts!

For a first year festival, there were a ton of great vendors there as well as a very good little crowd. I had a ton of fun getting to know the customers, other vendors and playing with the Strauch Mad Batt'r as a demonstration.

It was pure joy to meet the gals from the Ohio Natural Fiber Network. I especially had fun with the girls from That'll do Farm picking out colors, fibers and things that glitter for their first go round of art batts! What fun!!

The tidy side of my booth.

The messy side of the booth. One would think by now, I would have learned to hide my hot pink bins BEFORE taking the picture!

Spun and knit sample of the Baby Camel and Merino blend.

Handspun yarns.

A few of the new hand dyed colorways from left to right: Acerbitas(dark reds), Orsus (blues and purples), Chronos(browns/grey), Thanatos(purple/black), Euryale(gold, blues, browns, touches of green, etc)

Monday, April 25, 2011

Mythic Proportions

I decided I needed to change it up a little to not only liven up the Etsy side of the business, but to also make life a little easier. So I am introducing new colorways of mythic proportions! You can find the new colors here: http://LunabudKnits.etsy.com

The name sake of each new colorway is from Classic Greek or Roman Mythology or simple words or phrases. To find the meaning you can do a simple word search on the internet using a greek or or latin dictionary. Of course, you could always knit or weave along in blissful ignorance of the colorway's name, but where is the fun in that!?!

And we are now dating our yarn so that dye lots can be more easily identified! For example: 4/11 means the yarn was dyed on April of 2011. Yarns dyed prior to 4/11 will not be dated. Although the date might be the same, I would like to remind you that hand dyed yarn can vary greatly from skein to skein. Needless to say, if you have a large project in mind for the yarn, I recommend alternating the skeins every other row;)

Hydra

Verte

Vae

Caelestis

Gleba

Acerbitas

Caelestis

Gleba

Orsus

As a side note: I would like to point out to my Mom & Dad .... See, I am FINALLY making good use of the 2 years in Highschool of Latin & in College 1 semester each of Latin & Greek terminology. You know the 'dead languages' all thought I would have absolutely no use for?