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2024 Fiber Art Studio Tour Dates
Knit and Pray Pattern
Knit and Pray! Enjoy my new FREE pattern and learn to pray the Rosary while you knit or Crochet. Click the link below for the most recent version of this Knitted pattern:
Now HERE! Crochet and Pray. This past month I’ve been working hard on the crocheted version and it’s ready. I have been praying the Rosary with both versions and can’t decide which I like best.
Crocheted Rosary Mystery Blanket.
Here is an example of yarns from my store you can use. Alternatively you can use yarn from your OWN collection. For the larger size, you need 7-8 hanks of worsted weight or bulky yarn. For the smaller version, 4 hanks are enough. 
Any colors can work!
Dye Garden
I bought plants from Putnum Hill Nursery at the MD Sheep and Wool Festival and they have grown like crazy!! I started harvesting the flowers, little by little as they open up. They go into the freezer until I have enough to dye with. The first big dye was with WOAD. Here is the 20-mins. video of the 5-hour long process.
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January 1, 2024 The Lenten Knit along Starts February 14! Join me to knit while praying the Rosary, one decade a day…..one Rosary per week. I’m using 7 different colors plus a border. I love to pray and knit at the same time since it helps me stay focused. I’ve never been big on praying the Rosary since I was raised by loving parents, but neither them or my church embraced that particular tradition. My own church that I attend now (St Francis of Assisi in Fulton MD) has been encouraging this practice. For years I’ve wondered if there was a way to perhaps combine knitting with the Rosary, and one day I got an idea! I’ve dyed 7 natural colors, and am in the process of swatching. I’ve written the general idea for the pattern but it needs to be written out properly. I promise to be ready in time for Ash Wednesday when Lent starts. The pattern is FREE. If you email me I will send you the pattern in time. Meanwhile you can gather materials! See the above for more details.
ColorStorms became part of the Fiber Art Studio Tour this past summer (2022). The link to the map of all the participating studios is: https://www.fiberartstudiotour.com/map
At each stop there is yarn for sale! Also, at my stop entrance there is a gorgeous Garden Railroad, where we have trains running now and then. At other stops are farm animals. Each stop is unique and features a talented artist there to chat and share their special style of dyeing.
Please join Valerie Moreno (Knitting Fairy Godmother) and I as we read through “Wheesht, Creative Making in Uncertain Times” by Kate Davies. We devote 2 or 3 15-minute chats to each chapter as we reflect on the excelent articles and often do the suggestied activities. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqR37KysmkBEH-tJEARNeBMrWrMhk1AIQ
- 5 Year Anniversary!I am about to celebrate ColorStorm’s 5 year anniversary. As part of my celebration I want to hold a competition for help designing a new multi-color! To enter, please send me a picture and name suggestion through email or messaging. My email is artylinda6@gmail.com; My Instagram account is colorstorms.yarn. Naming a new color is one of …
- Instagram AccountPlease follow me at colorstorms.yarn on Instagram where I now post current pictures of my dye work. This summer has pulled me away from the business quite a bit but I’m picking up the pieces from this past winter and spring with a new trunk show near my home in Highland MD. I’ll be at “So …
- New Yarns at the Alpaca FestivalAt this recent MD Alpaca Festival, November 12 and 13, at the Howard County fair grounds, I introduced some new yarns and had a sale for old yarns. Since I am running this little company by myself, I cannot do everything. So I decided that in order to GROW as a company and try new …
- Seminar at the MD Alpaca GuildIt was nice to be invited back to talk about natural dyes again. This time I focused on blues made with black beans, showing off the lovely fleece I wrote in an earlier post. I also discussed dyeing with black walnuts, since they are all over the ground now! It’s a wonderful time of year …
- Front and Back of Sweater Vest Done!Fresh out of the blocking bucket! When the variations of grey started happening, they were sudden and hard to control. The image in the middle is the left vest. I knit that one first. When the yarn ran out and I couldn’t find more dark yarn I wasn’t sure what to do. In the end I …
- Olympic ProgressI finished the back of the blue and grey sweater vest, then had to put it aside to finish these beauties: Martha’s little shrug, made with “Tempting Ewe So DK and Sparkly”. The pattern is called “Entrechat.” I’ve made this shrug twice now and love it. All in one piece it’s magical the way it …
- Single Ply Spin Yarn DecisionOnce upon a time in the summer of 2012 a priest in Ohio, named Kathleen, gave my daughter, Rebecca, a silver fleece. Kathleen’s husband had a flock of 80 sheep, so perhaps this was not a great sacrifice, but it was still a lovely gift. With similar kindness, Rebecca shared it with me! Looking at …
- Favorite Scarf EverThat’s the title of this little gem, written by Lisa Bruce, and given to me by a friend at the MD Central Knitting Guild. (They meet on the 3rd Wed. of every month, by the way, at the senior center in Laurel. I’ve been going for 3 years now, and found that it’s a very …
- Summer HonestyIf you follow my business and posts, you notice that I don’t write much. I ENJOY dyeing yarn VERY much, and I LOVE to knit, but I don’t have a deep need to write about it. I’m coming clean, being honest here: I don’t really like to write posts. Since it’s important in this business, I’m trying; and …
- Lace Shawl DonePlease recall from my “Epic Travel and Summer Knitting” post how much I enjoyed working on the pink lace shawl. What lovely yarn and WHAT an incredible pattern by Rebecca Osborn! In the beginning, I worked on it at 5am in the morning before the family awoke, so I could focus on the intricate stitches. …
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