The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

First of all, I’m in love with my boat shuttle. it doesn’t snag on my warp threads, it can be shot through in one smooth movement, and best of all, it can be loaded up using a power drill in less time than it takes…

For Mother’s Day I wove two huge scarves (pics of the second one to come later) and took mom and dad up to Gryphon Highland Cattle Farm for the day to meet Kim and spend some time with her critter collection. Here’s mom showing off…

Rayna has been hedging about getting a loom. She’s on the fence, and ready to tip over to the dark side. To give that last little push I took my loom to her place, and showed off by making an entire scarf in a few…

“You should blog that photo” said Rayna, “You know, to show…” (Leslie finishes) “That you suck at something.” The girls were playfully ribbing me as I produces this laughable yarn :) it was my first time on a wheel, and it really feels like the…

I don’t do anything in half measures, so when I decided to try warping the loom all by myself, I chose to use my 12 dent heddle and a lace weight yarn, for a 17” wide scarf. 260 threads later I realized what a commitment…

Frolic was on Saturday, and of the many things I succumbed to that day my favourite acquisition was a pair of new heddles. I bought a 10 and 12 dpi to go with my 7.5 dpi. Tito has named them ‘Not bad’, ‘Crazy Talk’ and…

For my latest loom experiment I wanted to try making something for the home, instead of another scarf. This is not even a little bit because I’m bored of scarves, but because all the delicious yarn I want to use is sock or lace weight…

For Easter weekend we had a real treat–Rayna’s parents came to Toronto from Newfoundland for a few days. Rayna’s folks are from Newfoundland, and her dad is a super talented photographer, could it get any better? Yes it could; for a start they actually flew…

This is officially the first thing off the loom that I really enjoy wearing. Warp: Alternating strands of Indigodragonfly MCS worsted,  ‘Unemployed in Greenland’ with strands of Indigodragonfly merino sock,  ‘Is The Money Ok? Did They Hurt The Money? Weft: My own ombré dyed skein,…

‘Well and good’ (some of you have no doubt been saying) but what is she knitting? These came off the needles a few weeks ago, they’re a gift for a friend (my own Los Guantes De Claudia pattern) and it seems the weather is just…

I have finally started a project with one of my Ombré dyed yarns. Here’s the one I’ve chosen: Which, before I wound it up, looked like this: For the full tutorial on how I dye these skeins, click here! This time I am warping with…

Against all the advice I’d ever read, or been given, or even inferred through common sense, I decided to warp the loom on Friday night with what amounted to lace weight, single ply, handspun. This way lies madness. Tito only made it about 15 minutes…