This one is by far one of the best.  Weaver’s Craft.

I’ve been wanting this subscription for a long time, but I wanted all the back issues as well.  I’m so happy to get them all.  I’m going to be pouring over them before the weaving class starts.

I also got a few more Lamy’s (oh a pink one is on it’s way as well) and some new ink.

Unfortunately, I made a rookie mistake with my first Lamy this week by not clicking in the converter all the way and ended up wearing Poussiere De Lune all over my pants on Wednesday at work.  How embarrassing!  It was nice splotches of moon dust.  I took a picture, but before I could get it uploaded to Flickr my laptop died.  Not to worry though as it’s under warranty and will have nice new bits compliments of Dell.   The ink mostly washed out.  There is still a bit of a faint spot, but not too bad.  I’m sure the pants are still good enough for work.

Anyway, not to be daunted by a little spilled ink, I’m trying out some lovely new colors.  I haven’t ventured out to other ink brands yet, but I suspect I will.  I saw one person write on Fountain Pen Network that the J. Herbin inks were decidedly vintage and I would have to agree.  I love vintage.  I’m currently writing with the top three in the picture.

My knitting mojo seems to be funkified this week.  I’m coming down off a high of finishing some big projects.  I’ve also got another sock near completion.  So I was thinking I would warp the loom this weekend, but I think I need to cast on a few more projects and get my wheel out, I’ve got a marathon of shows and movies to watch to keep me busy.

Anyway if your interested in dyeing a really good one came this week.

The one thing I love about this book is that it has all sort of wonderful techniques.  Not just acid immersion dyeing.  It has procion mx dyeing for cottons, as well as natural dyeing, and different techniques for painting.  The format is good and has step-by-step instructions.  I would say good for the adventurous beginner, but interesting for the more experienced dyer that wants to stretch their skills as well.  I thought the projects were good and I liked the interviews with different dyers especially the Koigu ones with some pictures of their studios.  I probably would’ve liked to have seen more of those pictures.  My only other critique would be in the space dyeing projects to get stripes.  It says to make skeins that are 8 2/3 in diameter.  Just for my own mind with the yarn and weight your using I would like to know the length of the skein as well.  In other sections it says make a 60″ skein.  I would probably go through and and see the lengths they are painting and add them up to get the skein length.  At least a ball park – like expect it to be X feet would have been good in my mind.  From the picture of the two large tables pulled together to get the skein on.  I expect it’s probably pretty long.