Woosh Scarf Yarntasting Cafe Design Yarn: Artfibers WOOSH Yardage required: 126 yds includes 10% extra to allow for differences between knitters. Needles: U.S. size 17 (12mm) Main Stitch Pattern: Garter Stitch (all knits) Wrap and Drop Stitch: Row 1: *K1, yo; repeat to last stitch, k1. Row 2: Knit the knit stitches, drop the yo’s [...]
It seems that for many of us, meeting with groups of other fiberholics ensures us a time slot to get something accomplished on a project or two. The only dilemma is all of the great storytelling that goes on, inspiring the occasional curse word as someone discovers that while howling with laughter they skipped a [...]
Air Ecru’s intrepid pilot and tour guide, Noelle, this month takes us on a voyage that begins underground and ends underwater. Buckle up! At Artfibers we start each week with design. The subject at hand was Brioche, a complex thick/thin stretch yarn requiring double dyeing in opposite chemistries. Noelle had visited an Egyptian antiquities exhibit [...]
April — month of Arbor Day, Earth Day, green grass growing! For fiber inspiration we offer a few thoughts from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars ——————————- A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full [...]
