tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47296967976920694272024-02-20T22:15:03.906-08:00Smith and Ewe, fibre dyer and handspinnerat work and at playMary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-1197432679104916772019-07-04T13:33:00.000-07:002019-07-04T13:33:27.903-07:00WOW - has it been that long?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe how long I have ignored my blog. Must be busy or something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my new projects was/is the "temperature blanket" idea that I found on Facebook last year. The idea is you crochet/knit one row a day, depending on the temperature of the day. I checked the temperature around 9:30 a.m. each day, I made my graph, and assigned the temperature to colours:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below -10C - multi colour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-9 - 0C - teal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 - 5C - blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6-10C - green</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11-15C - purple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16-20C - pink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">above 21C - gold</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started January 1, and ended June 30 with a few days missing due to not being home. I am starting another, as of July 1 and will continue until the end of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a simple crochet stitch - chain 130, then Row 1 single crochet, Row 2, half double crochet, and that was used to the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you can see early in January, our temperature was mild for the month, then we got a spell of really cold weather, thus the multi. This spell of cold weather doomed the apricots and peaches for the year - in January the budding started due to the warmth, and then the freeze killed them, so no fruit this year from those trees.</span>Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-63818223595783340602016-10-10T11:19:00.001-07:002016-10-10T11:19:55.773-07:00Knit City 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was my 4th time as a vendor at Knit City in Vancouver, BC. This event has been getting bigger and better every year. I don't have pictures of other booths because I was too busy to wander around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do need lessons on taking selfies, but this is me with my friend Sheila, who is always willing to be a travel buddy. She is more than that, a HUGE help with the setup and take down. Drinks and dinner each evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is how we spend our evenings - the Atrium Inn right across from the venue site, has a lovely large lobby area - a great place to sit and enjoy other knitters' company and share a glass or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A customer came by modelling her Pi shawl that she knit, using 2 skeins of my October sparkle colourway, and a brown skein. The picture does not do it justice - it was stunning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A group of knitters all the way from Prince Rupert, BC with grumpy cat in the middle. She was just pretending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The keynote speaker this evening was Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot. No one could stay grumpy when she talked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have sock blanks that I hand dye, and once dry I wind them into pull from the centre yarn cakes. People often ask what is it like to knit with that yarn, as sock blanks are a fabric that has been knitted before dyeing, and after it is dry and unravelled, the yarn is kinked like any knitting that you have undone. Here are a couple of pictures. The first picture is the finished shawl before blocking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 17 was the annual Chilliwack Spin-In where I was once again invited to be a vendor. There were approximately 75 spinners in attendance. I love meeting with old friends, and in particular, seeing their finished products after they have purchased fibre or yarn from me at the previous spin-in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brenda Alexander of Penelope Fibre Arts (and the organizer of the fabulous annual Fibres West held in March)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Danielle Kingma of Birkeland Brothers in Abbotsford, my favourite neighbour at any fibre event. The smile never leaves her face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Joanne Baxter of Lyndhaven Farms in Abbotsford with raw Romney and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lori Giesbrecht of Redeemer's Garden in Chilliwack with a selection of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Harmen Kooyman, and 82-year-old gentleman spinner, was there with a wheel that he made, out of wood salvaged from a chokecherry tree that had fallen and lain on the ground for 16 years. It was a genuine gorgeous work of art.</span></div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-39117681236003215892016-09-02T10:15:00.000-07:002016-09-02T10:15:14.996-07:00Speckle dyeing<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been playing around with creating some speckle dyed yarns. I use a turkey roaster for a lot of my techniques. I found that the insert eventually lost its coating from the many soaks of citric acid, so I now use one of those aluminum turkey sized disposable pans that you can get at the dollar store. I have to cut off the edges to fit the piece into the roaster, but I have not noticed any problems with my dyeing in an aluminum pan. Eventually they also get pinholes from the citric acid, so throw away and use a new one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pre-soak the skeins in water with citric acid (1 tblsp to 2 skeins) and a bit of Synthrapol. Squeeze out and lay in the roaster 2 at a time, then add enough water just to cover the skeins. I have premixed my primary colour (in this case, lilac) and use 2 cups to pour over the skeins, leaving white areas. Then I sprinkle the dye powders (I have the powder in those dollar store salt shakers) very carefully. I have been using 3 different colours. Then I don't touch anything for at least 15 minutes. Wearing heavy duty rubber gloves, I then take the skeins and flip them over, and repeat. After another 10 to 15 minutes, unplug, let cool a bit, and rinse. Here are some skeins that I have done.</span></div>
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Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-30365833995940411302016-08-26T11:35:00.002-07:002016-08-26T11:35:59.122-07:00Some of my projects I knit at night while watching TV, which keeps the hands out of the snacks! So I thought I would show you some of the things I and customers have made with yarn that I have dyed, which also gives you an idea of how the yarn works up.<br />
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This is yarn dyed in honour of the Toronto Blue Jays. I cast on 68 stitches using 2.25 mm needles. I have a line of Team Socks in my web store, so this will show you how those colourways knit up.<br />
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This is a pair of socks knit with my Confetti colourway, also 68 stitches, 2.25 mm needles.</div>
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I have a line of yarn called Maryanne's Bliss, which is 70% merino wool, 20% cashmere and 10% nylon, and I have a gradient method of dyeing. This is a Pretty Basic shawl (pattern free on Ravelry) knit with one skein of the burgundy gradient on 4.5 mm needles.</div>
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This is a pattern of my own design (Maryanne's Shawl) which I give away free with yarn purchase. It is knit out of Maryanne's Sparkle in Dazzler colourway.</div>
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I also hand dye sock blanks. My friend Sheila knits the blanks for me with her knitting machine and I then go crazy. The sock at the bottom illustrates how they knit up. I dye them so that you can get a matching pair of socks if you knit one from the middle, and the other from the outside.</div>
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This is a Reyna shawl (pattern free on Ravelry) knit by a customer in Maryanne's Socks in my Licorice Candy colourway. So cool!</div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-18719429994397584102016-08-26T11:18:00.000-07:002016-08-26T11:18:47.901-07:00It's been a while ........<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I did not meet my goal for 2016, which was to write a blog once a week. So it's time for some catching up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In May, my husband and I cruised to Alaska for the 4th time. The previous cruises were in the summer and we had gorgeous weather. Ketchikan, Alaska claims to be the rainiest town in all of North America, but we had yet to see a drop of rain. So cruising in May gave us a bit of trepidation. We flew to San Francisco from Kamloops, and spent 3 nights there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boy, did we get rain! Our first day in San Francisco was gloomy, but the second day when we took the cable car was a downpour. But we had umbrellas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We boarded the Norwegian Gem and cruised under the Golden Gate bridge, but I have to admit that cruising under the Lion's Gate bridge in Vancouver is much more exciting! And guess what? The sun came out and stayed with us the entire time we cruised, for the next 8 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We visited Sitka, Icy Strait Point and Ketchikan, and I managed to find yarn stores in Sitka and Ketchikan.</span></div>
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Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-59302354865795574132016-07-10T14:00:00.002-07:002016-07-10T14:00:41.924-07:00A new event and our spring retreat<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, the Barriere spinners hosted their first spin-in on April 10, held at the Blue Jar Bistro in Barriere. There was a great turnout of almost 50 spinners! There were 2 vendors, myself Smith and Ewe and Melanie Stutt of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope this will be an annual event - it was a treat to meet with friends from long ago. I also met Jayne D'Entremont who has cashmere goats, among other animals, on her farm. I asked her where she got her goats from, and she mentioned someone named Heidi from Harmony Farm in Quesnel, BC. Jayne also has milk goats and makes lovely products with the milk, including soap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After this weekend, was the semi-annual Desert Mesa Spinning Retreat held in Cache Creek each spring and fall. It is a weekend not to be missed! No pressure, no lessons, no classes, just a lot of fun and learning from each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a lady there with her cashmere, who had a very educational display on raising cashmere goats and harvesting their fleece, as well as lots of information on the different grades of fibre. And her name was Heidi Krause, from Harmony Farm in Quesnel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until October - for the fall retreat, October 28 - 31. For information on this event, contact Sheila Kirk in Merritt, silk@telus.net.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, my computer needed fixing, and when it came back with a new hard drive, of course I did not backup everything I needed. So it has been a while trying to get things back to the way they were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in April, I attended the Desert Sage Spinners and Weavers Spin-in, held once again at the beautiful Walnut Beach Resort in Osoyoos (www.walnutbeachresort.com). What a fabulous weekend! Great weather, great friends, great food, great fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Meals are always wonderful - but the size of the eating area is what limits the amount of attendees to this retreat. Too bad, as I know many other people who would like to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linda Schultz from Oliver brought alpaca fibre, rovings, and these cute teddy bears made from alpaca fleece. I purchased some oh-so-soft grey pencil rovings, and spun a single </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and plied with the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one was spun from some merino/silk rovings that I dyed. Pattern is Botany.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to Cloverdale, BC, for the annual spring Fibres West, held March 18 and 19. This year was bigger and better than any before, and there are no signs of the attraction for fibreholics to slow down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My booth was set between two large and popular vendors - Birkeland Brothers from Abbotsford (Danielle and I always request this because we are good friends and keep each other company during the few slow times), and Sweet Georgia Yarns. I created a hint of mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shawl I am wearing is one I knit (Reyna pattern, free on Ravelry) out of hand dyed and handspun Bluefaced Leicester that I made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't believe it is March already, and our informal group of dedicated handspinners once again hosted the first spin-in of the year. Many thanks go to Terry Prehara, who has taken the responsibility of leading our group in organization and hosting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a full house of 37 spinners and 2 vendors: Anne Carmichael with her sock machined socks, stitch markers, and various other tools for handspinners, and myself with fibre and yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The morning was taken up with the Bash the Stash - people brought in something fibre related that they did not want or need anymore, put them on the table and wrote their name on a ticket. After all was placed, names were drawn, and that person could go to the table and take something that they wanted in exchange - always a lot of fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lunch was provided by Mandy again - she takes over the kitchen and always feeds us well. This year she made a Danish dish of chicken, asparagus, mushrooms and rice, and a beautiful spinach-mandarin salad, as well as her home made buns. Thompson Treadlers provided lots of goodies to keep us going before and after lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and there are always treasures to be oohed and ahhh'd over.</span> </div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-39457712291147773952016-02-28T12:35:00.002-08:002016-02-28T13:10:18.662-08:00Exciting times!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we moved here, plans were to get the bathroom and kitchen renovated. The bathroom turned out great, installed by Rona. The kitchen took a little longer in planning, etc. and we decided to go with Counters Only, as they had more detail in the proposal, plus they had done a refacing reno for us in our previous house 15 years ago. Here are a few before pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The previous owner had coated the countertop with something, and when it got wet, the coating bubbled up and peeled like it had a bad disease. Not healthy and no way to clean it.</span></div>
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I found more hand dyed locks in my spinning stash - beautiful long Border Leicester fleece - which I spun in the lock, and then plied with a thread - 82 yards. </div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-12448984508528692172016-02-19T11:37:00.000-08:002016-02-19T12:35:39.176-08:00On my needlesRight now I have 3 projects on the go, which is usually not my style. But I came to a halt on two of them because my brain could not get around the concept, and I needed to knit something else. So I started this Maryanne's Shawlette with one of my favourite sparkle yarn colourways, Persian Nights.<br />
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I was knitting this Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf, (free pattern on Ravelry) but put it down and could not remember how to get the triangle to go the other way. Pause until Knit Night for help, should be finished this week. It is my Rock Your Socks colourway.</div>
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My second put down is a pair of socks using the Fish Lips Kiss Heel. I have never knit this before, and decided it was time to try. But I needed guidance as the pattern seemed odd to me. I am carrying on though, and if it doesn't work out, goodbye Fish Lips.</div>
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On Ravelry, I am a fan of Rachel Smith (no relation) and her blog and podcasts. She is known as Welford Purls. In the group "the wool n spinning podcast group" she has started a Spin and Knit project thread, where you spin your fibre and then knit it. I chose to spin some merino/nylon pencil rovings that I have dyed, and I am making a sport weight 2-ply yarn. I have only one spinning wheel now, my trusty Louet, and using the technique of lacing the bobbin, I am able to spin a very fine yarn on this wheel.</div>
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With all this going on, I am getting ready for a busy season of fibre events, starting with our very own Spin-In in Kamloops, and then on to Fibres West in Cloverdale (<a href="http://www.fibreswest.com/">www.fibreswest.com</a>)</div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-40468926889594520522016-02-13T16:43:00.001-08:002016-02-13T16:43:10.865-08:00Knitting and DyeingI finished the shawl that I was working on last week, it is now blocked. This pattern is free on Ravelry, Simply Basic, a one skein shawl.<br />
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I found this free pattern on Ravelry, for a different kind of cowl. It is called Summer Cowgirl, and you knit the bottom part, block, sew together at the top, pick up stitches, and knit until you run out of yarn. It is also a one-skein cowl. I knit on 4mm needles, but the next one will be on 3.75 mm. It is out of a skein of Maryanne's Bliss, merino/cashmere/nylon blend.</div>
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I found these socks in my stash area, forgot about them. They are a sock blank merino/nylon that I dyed in Vancouver Canucks colours.</div>
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I am knitting a scarf right now out of my Rock Your Socks colourway. It is a free pattern on Ravelry Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf, the triangles are done with short rows, all garter stitch.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I have been trying some new dye techniques, and can't wait to start knitting to see how the yarn turned out. I made my skeins extra large, then dyed 2/3 of them royal blue, and then with a squirt bottle, applied colours to the white portion, leaving some white in between. In the skein I used red, yellow and blue, and in the cake I used purple and lime green. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next shawl is not yet blocked, so will be almost twice the size when finished. It was knit out of Maryanne's Sparkle, in a failed dyepot. This pattern is called Pretty Basic, another free pattern on Ravelry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another busy week - got 2 large orders off to Wet Coast Wools in Vancouver and Kelowna Yarn. Took a road trip to Kelowna to pick up citric acid and deliver the yarns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I decided to get into my spinning stash - this is what I am working on right now. I found a bagful of gorgeous kid mohair locks that I had dyed and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this is the first skein I made. I spun the locks and then plied with a thread. The texture and feel are amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I dug into the stash to see what I need to do. Here are a few discoveries.</span></div>
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More silk hankies.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also finished a pair of socks for my husband, in Seattle Seahawks colourway sock yarn that I dyed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at about $600 less than buying new!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I have finally figured out how to dye a self striping yarn! Even though the Seattle Seahawks didn't win this year, their uniforms are great! Making a pair of socks for my husband, who has discovered how soft and cushy hand knit socks knit out of merino/nylon can be.</span></div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-63125059537988459362016-01-15T10:14:00.001-08:002016-01-15T10:17:44.684-08:00Some of my work this weekThis week is "getting back into the groove" week. I finally got my supply of yarn for dyeing (ordered beginning of September) and can start preparing for my orders. Who says you need a turkey roaster to roast a turkey?<br />
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I have two of these on the go. I found that the citric acid eventually ate through the insert, so I now buy disposable foil inserts (which eventually get pinholes from the acid also). It has not changed the way my yarns dye.</div>
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I finished another pair of socks - these were a failed attempt at a self striping sock blank in Vancouver Canucks colours.</div>
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In case you are wondering where I got the cute sock blockers, they are available on Etsy, look up BurningImpressions2. Megan Tilitzky lives in 150 Mile House, British Columbia.</div>
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Completed another long lost colourway in Maryanne's Socks - this one goes great with denim.</div>
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And this is what I have been doing with my leftover yarn after socks are made.</div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-38831504536355381672016-01-09T11:28:00.003-08:002016-01-09T11:28:49.314-08:00My Goal for 2016 is -----<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, it has been quite a while since I wrote a blog, and my goal for this year is to faithfully post one a week. A lot has happened since my last entry </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(April 2015) so here goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all, happy new year to you all. My husband and I celebrated at Tulalip Resort with a bus tour from Kamloops.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since April, I attended several fibre events, with the largest and busiest being Knit City in Vancouver. This was the 4th year of this event and it gets better every year. I have already booked my space for October 2016.</span> </div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-29079384705353041352015-04-28T08:26:00.003-07:002015-04-28T08:26:45.396-07:00Spring in Desert Mesa Spinning Retreat, April 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The annual spring retreat held in Cache Creek - Desert Mesa Spinning Retreat. Always a smaller crowd in the spring, but no lack of enthusiasm - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and infectious laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gudie has been given "Flat Stanley" to tour British Columbia with her, on behalf of a young friend who is doing a school project. Only as Gudie can do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Some shawls at the Show and Tell made from yarn spun from fibres that I dyed. Sheila is modelling a shawl made from my Whoosh colourway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This shawl is made from a merino wool and silk blend that I dyed in yellows, knit by Trixie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This shawl was a combination - Isabel started with yarn made from my Creamsicle colourway, then searched her stash for more that would go together. Great job!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There was a lengthy discussion, as we carefully examined the very old piece of bobbin lace that Melody inherited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And of course, it would only be Karen who could find fibre to spin that would exactly match the shoes that she was wearing</span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my "Rainbow" colourway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bringing LOTS of fibre to inspire you all in October. See you then!</span></div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-28512959750679733222015-04-28T08:10:00.005-07:002015-04-28T08:10:53.360-07:00Where have I been?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">March and April have been incredibly busy this year - starting with the Kamloops Spin-In on March 7. This is our 3rd year for having spinners get together, and once again, we had prime weather and a fabulous time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The cake tasted as good as it looked!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and this carrot-pear bisque with Wicked Chicken and Coleslaw wraps was great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next weekend was the annual Fibres West weekend in Cloverdale - a feast for all those interested in the fibre arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Some examples of exquisite lace work done by the Lace Makers Guild of Vancouver. The body on the left scared me to death every time I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Judith Gibbery with her class of learners. We will see her in Kamloops in October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A beautiful vest of nuno felting - the picture doesn't do it justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each evening at 5 o'clock, there was a Happy Hour in the suite that Barb Levant was staying in. Lots of wine, crackers, cheese and dips for appies before dinner. A great get together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been busy dyeing silk hankies, and getting ready for Fibres West in Cloverdale, BC, March 13-15. I thought I would show you my process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First I separate the hankies into about 10 gram parcels, which conveniently is the way the supplier has them stacked. I fluff up the edges, as I have found if I don't, the dye won't penetrate fully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I fold them in quarters, and stack them about 12 at a time in my plastic bin. The bin has water as hot as I can get it out of the tap, with a capful of Synthrapol or a couple of squirts of dish washing liquid, and 4 tablespoons of citric acid. I leave them to soak overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day, I squeeze out the excess water, open up the folded hankie, and start dyeing. I have a 9x12 glass cake pan that I line with plastic wrap, and place the hankie on top. My dye is mixed - 2 cups of water, 1/4 tsp dye powder and 1 tblsp citric acid. Using a condiment squirt bottle (like the dollar store ones for mustard and ketchup), I randomly place the colours according to the whim of the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The package is then rolled up like a jelly roll, squeezing out the excess water as I go, and they are placed in my canner to steam for 15 minutes. </span></div>
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After steaming, and after they are cooled, I unwrap them and soak them in warm water, again with a bit of Synthrapol, to get rid of any excess dye that might not have been exhausted.<br />
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-7689951055449105882015-02-01T14:23:00.000-08:002015-02-01T19:21:31.470-08:00Took a mini road trip<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Called up my travel buddy Sheila, to see if she wanted to accompany me on a little road trip to check out some yarn stores and deliver 2 broken swifts to my woodworking friend Julia Armstrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our first stop was in Salmon Arm at Intwined Fibre Arts. What a lovely store - everything easy to find, and Althea and Sara were a pleasure to chat with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just a few pictures of Elena's busy dye studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could have spent the entire day with Elena, but we had other places to go. Our next stop was into the woods between Salmon Arm and Enderby, to bring the sadly broken swifts to Julia for repair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just part of Julia's woodworking tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a true family heirloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little walk outside to check out her wood supply. The snow had avalanched off the roof and the light shone through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever seen a neater wood pile?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just a portion of Julia's 30 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our last stop was through the woods again, over to Highway 97, and to the cute little yarn store inside the Falkland General Store. A treasure trove for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I got home, there was a message from Julia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both of my swifts are fixed! Maybe another mini road trip in the future?</span></div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-83510191684066650422014-12-30T13:46:00.003-08:002014-12-30T13:46:55.968-08:00What have I been up to lately?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the rush and craziness of winter and Christmas events and sales, it was time to slow down and relax. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been saving odds and ends from dye projects, and samples received, and it was time to start playing with the drum carder. I can get about 70 grams of fibre on this home made carder, which usually works out to about 50-70 yards of handspun yarn, all one-of-a-kind skeins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are enough to make a cozy hat or headband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What to do with leftover sock yarn? This Russian ring pattern used about 100 yards of each colour. The rings intertwine with each other. Easy - cast on 100 stitches with 4 mm circular needle, join in ring without twisting, knit 5 inches, cast off and weave in ends. Next colour, make sure needle goes through the ring already completed, do the same. Next colour, make sure needle goes through both rings already completed, do the same. You can make this as big as you want by knitting more inches, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a real cute pattern courtesy of Anne at Kelowna Yarn and Crafts, www.kelyarn.com, using only one skein of Smith and Ewe sock or fingering yarn. This is the sparkle Deep Cove colourway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am now tackling a knit-along challenge put out by my knitting group, the Needlemaniacs. It is the Madrona scarf, lace pattern with beads. One of my customers asked me to dye a yarn using greys and yellows. The end result was not too pleasing, but once I accepted this challenge, I guarantee the end result will be a keeper, using this failed experiment at dyeing. Watch for it!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! KEEP CALM AND KEEP SPINNING, KNITTING, WEAVING, CROCHETING AND SHARING!</span></b></div>
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<br />Mary-Anne Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09808187796128839837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4729696797692069427.post-75060134568894618182014-12-23T16:53:00.000-08:002014-12-23T16:53:38.658-08:00Better late than never..............<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 16 to 18, 2014 - our biannual fall retreat, Desert Mesa Retreat, held in Cache Creek, BC every spring and fall. Due to popular demand, the retreat was expanded to go from Thursday to Sunday. Everyone agreed that the extra day made the event so much more relaxing - lots of time to get the scheduled events happening with lots of time left over for the important things - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I managed to get it all in the van once again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And once again, would it all fit in my room?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, there are about 55 spinning wheels set up in this room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we are a bunch of wild and crazies - and some of us decided that our favourite stuffies needed a play date. Yes, we are mature, but you have to break out of the mold every once in a while!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was SOOO in love with Irene's I-phone case. I decided I needed one of my own. Found it on E-bay - waited a LONG time - and when it arrived, it was about 2 mm too small - my phone did not fit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Melody could not decide how to use the beautiful shawl she had made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another year has flown by and it is time to go once again to Vancouver, to participate in Knit City, a fibre frenzy event for knitters, spinners and fibre addicts of all sorts. My good friend Sheila Grant accompanied me once again for the weekend. And boy, did I make her work! And as a reward, I left enough room in the van for her suitcase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year I put together some thrum mitten kits. Linette Meeks from Nanaimo was teaching a class on how to make them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of Linette Meeks, here is a closeup of a shawl that she made as an entry into a contest - create a shawl to be worn by </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some pictures of clever display ideas spotted at Knit City.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a couple of pictures of hand made garments spotted </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCAoiPWZjEaZtrAVROZDizjg_EfGO3EXO8pKHhy9pZtFcezpQ9jpCKSEdyJMX4eLRmRjyxJwHB8kCkpK-MFAg8iehRBWoN90xi9cuUq2305kZ7LD0BRupNfkRjgLSWGZC9VSeQrCtRaAs/s1600/IMG_0772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCAoiPWZjEaZtrAVROZDizjg_EfGO3EXO8pKHhy9pZtFcezpQ9jpCKSEdyJMX4eLRmRjyxJwHB8kCkpK-MFAg8iehRBWoN90xi9cuUq2305kZ7LD0BRupNfkRjgLSWGZC9VSeQrCtRaAs/s1600/IMG_0772.JPG" height="120" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday night we all hung out in the hotel lobby, knitting of course. And showing off purchases made during the day.</span><br />
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