For nylig havde vi hedebølge, så jeg trængte til et lille let projekt, hvor man ikke sidder med en stor bunke uld på skødet. Det endte med Hado, et mønster af Olga Buraya-Kefelian. Og det var faktisk så sjovt at strikke at jeg endte med at lave tre af dem. Øverst en gul/grøn, farvet med tagrørsblomster […]
Summer finally came roaring with several days of temperatures around 30C (yea, hot for Denmark!). We’ve been outside almost all the time, except the times I’ve had to go into the house and check my dye pot on the stove. Our garden is wonderful right now, the highlights are Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus, studenternellike in […]
I’m in hat knitting mode right now! As soon as this hat was finished, I had the next one on the needles. The pattern, a Danish one called “hue 1” (that just means hat 1, the book has more than one hat) really makes my brain go berserk with color scheme after color scheme. I’ve […]
I have long been fascinated with the colors that one can achieve using the dyes that nature provides. There is an endless experimentation that can be tried, and to chronicle my many experiments, I’ve decided to start writing about it here. That will also allow myself to keep track! Over the summer and fall of […]