Denise Daniel

Hand dyed yarn in pinks and magentas

Hand dyed yarn in pinks and autumn colors

Last week I got a present from my friend, but this is the first minute I've had to take pictures for Ravelry. Apple Fiber Studio on base McIntosh (Alpaca, Merino, and Nylon) in Beet and Japanese Maple. So fricking pretty and soft!!

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Purple, blue and black Corriedale top

Singles of Corriedale Purple People Eater on Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

I started a new spinning project using 16 oz of Paradise Fibers Corriedale top in color Purple People Eater. Spinning at 25 wpi and splitting each piece of top into 4 strips.

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First 67 rows of Ravenwood Dragon Cloak in my blue, purple, green hand dyed yarn.

I got through the second chart and the second decrease row, so now I'm down to 439 stitches per row from the original cast on of 547. Seven more charts to go.

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First 39 rows of the Ravenwood Dragon Cloak in my hand dyed yarn in blue, purple, and green.

I got through the first chart and the first decrease row, so now it's 493 stitches per row instead of 547. 8 more charts to go.

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Purple, green, and blue yarn hand dyed by me, knit into the first 22 rows of the dragon scale like pattern of the Ravenwood Dragon Cloak on top of the pattern showing the picture of the finished object.

I haven't posted after actually starting because I needed enough so you could see.
It's 547 sts a row, so it took a bit (row 22). I modified the pattern to add sts because one size fits all is b.s.

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Chain plied yarn on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 in grey, orange and magenta.

Chain plied yarn in grey, orange and magenta on a niddy noddy.

Chain plied yarn in grey, orange and magenta laying on a table.

Chain plied yarn in grey, orange and magenta, wound in a skein, laying on a table.

I won at plying bobbin chicken! I chain plied the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt that I started during Tour de Fleece. I got a DK, 11 wpi, 3 ply yarn, about 368 yards to 8.4 oz.

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Lol, you'll get there though 💜

Thank you! I think I'm going to chain ply it to keep the long color repeats.

A bobbin full of singles on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 spun from a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange at about 30 wpi.

I finished spinning the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt that I started during Tour de Fleece.

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Spinning singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Day 29 (August 3rd), Last Day of Tour de Fleece - Continued working on the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt and did one row of my Ravenwood Dragon Cloak.

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5 quarts of green beans and 1 quart of yellow wax beans with a few green beans thrown in. #gardening #zone5bgardening #foodallergygardening #foodallergy #cornallergylife #cornallergy #gardeners #greenbeans #waxbeans #HungarianHotWax #CanningSeason

8 pints of Pickled Three Bean Salad #gardening #zone5bgardening #foodallergygardening #foodallergy #cornallergylife #cornallergy #gardeners #greenbeans #waxbeans #HungarianHotWax #CanningSeason

8 pints of the Pickled Three Bean Salad from So Easy to Preserve except I used Hungarian Hot Wax peppers instead of bell peppers because I had a lot, and it'll give it at little kick. Also, more beans I canned yesterday.

They look fabulous!

Spinning singles of the Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 28 (August 2nd) of Tour de Fleece - Still working on the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt.

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Spinning singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 27 (August 1st) of Tour de Fleece - Still working on the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt. Forgot to post last night as it was really late.

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Picture of a recipe.

Picture of a recipe

I guess Bluesky won't let me send pictures privately

I will send you pictures of the recipes. In my canning books here, they say it is safe to substitute zucchini for cucumbers so I used two cucumber canning recipes and just substituted the zucchini, cutting out the seeds. I only cut out the seed because my zucchini were huge (we forgot to check them)

6 pints of Zucchini Sweet Garlic Dills on a towel covered rack.

Tonight's hilarity part 2: Zucchini Sweet Garlic Dills, 6 pints.

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#gardeners #Zucchini #CanningSeason

8 pints of Zucchini Quick Sour pickles on a towel covered canning rack.

Tonight's hilarity part 1: Zucchini Quick Sours, 8 pints.

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#gardeners #Zucchini #CanningSeason

Spinning singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 26 (July 31st) of Tour de Fleece - Yep, still working on the singles of the Good Karma Farm batt.

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7 pints of Pickled Yellow Pepper Rings on towel covered rack.

Tonight's hilarity: 3+ pounds of Hungarian Hot Wax peppers processed into 7 pints of Pickled Yellow Pepper Rings, and a load of dishes.

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#gardeners #HungarianHotWaxPeppers #CanningSeason

Singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, orange, and magenta being spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 25 (July 30th) of Tour de Fleece - Still plugging on the Good Karma Farm batt.

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Spinning singles from a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

DAY 24 (July 29th) of Tour de Fleece - Spun more faux-lags from the Good Karma Batt.

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Fingering yarn with neon neps dyed chartreuse, turquoise, and purple pop.

Multicolored nep dk yarn dyed with random purple dye stocks.

5 meter fingering weight sock yarn dyed with a mix of purple and aubergine on one side and speckled with purple pop, chartreuse and turquoise on the other to make self striping yarn.

This is my dry yarn from the yarn dyeing party. The neps did not dye and stayed their original colors.

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#YarnDyeingParty #ConcordNHKnittingGroup #wool2dye4

Spinning singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange with an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

DAY 23 (July 28th) of Tour de Fleece - Spun more faux-lags from the Good Karma Batt, I'm going through the women's race, too.

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14 quarts of green beans on towel covered racks.

I got the second half of the green beans done after the dye party, 14 more quarts. Hopefully they all seal.

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#gardeners #greenbeans #CanningSeason

Yarn in a steam tray being dyed with chartreuse, turquoise and purple pop dye

5 meter skein half dyed with a mix of purple and aubergine on one side and speckled with purple pop, chartreuse, and turquoise.

Multicolored nep yarn dyed with random purple dye stocks.

All three skeins previously described hanging on a drying rack.

DAY 22 (July 26th) of Tour de Fleece - We had a yarn dying party for my local knitting group. We did some long, 5 meter skeins for self striping, and I dyed the yarn with the neon and multi-colored neps I bought.

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Spinning singles of a Good Karma Farm batt in grey, magenta, and orange on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

DAY 22 (July 26th) of Tour de Fleece - Spun more faux-lags from the Good Karma Farm batt.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarnspinning #yarnspinners #handspun #yarn #🧶 #GoodKarmaFarm #TourdeFleece2025

14 quarts of green beans after being removed from the canner on racks with bar towels on top, on the dining room table.

Canning season has officially commenced. 14 quarts of green beans. I probably have about that much to do tomorrow after the dye party as well.

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#gardeners #greenbeans #CanningSeason

🤣🤣🤣 I'd definitely off load some zucchini if you were!

Green beans in 2 twelve quart and 1 eighteen quart Cambro containers

Hot wax peppers in a cardboard Berry tray

Zucchini and summer squash in three 12x18 inch aluminum trays.

Garden update: More hot wax peppers, about 42 quarts of beans, and a boat load of zucchini and summer squash. Those aluminum trays are 12x18 inches.

#gardening #zone5bgardening #foodallergygardening #foodallergy #cornallergylife #cornallergy #hotwaxpeppers #greenbeans #zucchini #summersquash