Posts by liawbh

I've never had any fading with food-grade dyes. I soak my yarn in warm water (hot for superwash) with a drop of Dawn or Synthrapol, than squeeze out, soak a few minutes in warm clean water, then in warm water with a generous glug of...

I think they don't allow coops anymore, and have started cracking down on "presales" too.

I would say get the winder ( you can get the 40 or 50% off Joanns.com coupon.). And do a google search for how to build the swift yourself. There is a tutorial that uses a couple of dowels and washers. There's another one from Tinker...

Usually knits shrink much more lengthwise than width. I was just bemoaning that fact today as ds's longies fell down again.

Hey, Susan, nice to see you again!

If your library has Ann Budd's Knitters Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, it has charts of numbers to calculate different sweater styles with any weight of yarn. On Knitty, there's the Banff sweater. For $5, there's a pattern on Etsy...

Welcome! My husband's an April Fool B-day, too.

Evan is on potty strike. Sigh. Not sure how to handle it, so mostly I just offer it randomly, and let it go. My 1st was in preschool, with bitty little toilets, and lots of peer influence. So even though he didn't completely have the...

You'll want to put it in a zippered pillowcase, to keep the fuzz out of your machine's insides. I also throw a couple tennis balls or my canvas Keds in there, for a little extra agitation. Since you want to cut it, not felting to fit,...

Hey ladies. Ursula, my Evan is 4/20/05.