ThePaintedTiger | October 30, 2009
For today’s Fiber Friday, I’m going to take you on another photo adventure with my Big Tom drum carder by Ron nderson at Fancy Kitty (no affiliation, just a happy customer). Up to now, I’ve been carding medium domestic wool, and it has done a great job. Big Tom currently comes standard with 120 tpi [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 28, 2009
Here’s the latest in the shop for hand dyed spinning fiber…… I heard you, and there are a few Rainbows: Tussah Silk!! The rest of these are Corriedale combed top. BTW, I have proudly just dyed and sold nearly an entire bump (that’s about 22 pounds) of Corrie!!! Yes, more is on the way! And [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 27, 2009
It was beautiful this morning….had to share! Click on ‘em to go to Flickr and see them huge! var addthis_pub = ‘ThePaintedTiger’; var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;
ThePaintedTiger | October 22, 2009
It has been quite the Thursday. We do library story time this day, and for once we were early. Or not. Cub 2 left the backpack with the essential DUE TODAY or ELSE videos in it. So one round trip later, and there we were. In the pouring rain. The cubs were thrilled to use [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 19, 2009
It’s been awhile since I talked about my WIP’s, so here goes! Yes, yes, this is not much progress on what we’ve dubbed ‘The Giant Bacon’. I do have an excuse…..I made the cast on chain WAAAAAY too tight, and so the Giant Bacon was becoming the Giant C due to my loosening gauge. So [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 15, 2009
Today’s featured project is from Tracy. She started with this 8oz braid of Corriedale, named Deep Rainbow. She spun it into a thick single, then took it to an art yarn class….. And this beautiful coiled yarn is what she came home with! Isn’t it fun and fabulous?! LOL, I’m hearing you, people, and yes [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 14, 2009
Here’s this week’s hand dyed yarn and fiber update. The fiber is BFL I posted a couple of weeks ago, but I had it in skeins. Seems people like braids better, so I braided and rephotographed. The yarn is Tiger Twist, Bengal (BFL sock….very yummy!), some Siberian Worsted, and a skein of Tiger Cub just [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 9, 2009
Welcome to my new feature in the blog…..customer projects (Finished Objects). I hope to keep this going, so if you’d like to be featured some Friday, do drop me a line here or on Ravelry. ThermalGal on Ravelry was in my spring ‘Transitions’ sock of the month club, and the yarn below was my spring/Easter [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 8, 2009
In the top row, we have Tussah Silk. These are 4 oz braids, and are quite soft and luxurious. The second row contains Corriedale, love to spin this….it’s like comfort spinning! The first picture in row 3 is Firestar . I have 11 colors up right now, so you can blend them in your self [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 4, 2009
I thought it was about time for me to show you what I’ve been working on. This is 6 out of about 10 ounces of fiber dyed by Carol Lee. Mostly it yellow, green, and navy, but there are bits of red in there, too. The goal? A 3 ply with a good deal of [...]
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