The ladies at the counter told me that the pink dye in the fabric wasn’t colour fast and was I sure? I thought “Eh, I’ll wash it a couple of ways and see how bad it is”, figuring I could always regard it as a prototype and make it again in the future if I liked the ...
recycled materials and have been ‘solution dyed’, a process which means colour is incorporated into the yarn during manufacture rather than being applied as a conventional dye. In the case of the Makalu, that means a 100% recycled Polyester face fabric with a solution-dyed tricot backer. Tes...
Today I want to share a silly sort of tutorial. The title says it all - it's how I go fabric shopping with three small children, all under five. I can count on one hand the number of times I've bought fabric online - it just does not appeal to me. But physical shopping with li...
I started out by painting all of the wood and caning with Annie Sloan Pure White. On a side note this is the one and only color of ASCP that I’m not crazy about. I LURVE all of her other colors but Pure White always seems to give me trouble. It seems to always come out “chun...
Honestly, you can find lots of stuff (I mean “lots” as in groupings sold as such, not just oodles) that include complete kits to quilt with, matching skeins of yarn from the same dye lot, or of course, just oodles and oodles of beads. When people discover they no longer like knit...