Hemp Dish Cloth in Seed Stitch

     You may be interested in Twist Collective's article about hemp, "High Fiber," www.twistcollective.com/collection/107-articles/2601-high-fiber.
     I prefer the idea of 100% hemp yarn rather than a blend of hemp with wool but that's me.
     I knitted another dish cloth out of hemp, using seed stitch.  I had to make the dimensions quite wide and stubby because of the way the first one shrank.  It looked ridiculously ill-proportioned when I was knitting it but you can see that it shrank to pretty much square.
     I was hoping that seed stitch would provide a better drape than garter stitch but it doesn't.

Maiwa Podcast : "Field Notes in the Colour Garden"

I enjoyed the recent Maiwa podcast, "Field Notes in the Colour Garden," with Michel Garcia, posted on July 16, 2018.  It was interesting to hear all the things people have been asking him to do for them regarding natural dyes and what things they've been doing with plant dyes in France.

Information Compulsion and Språng

     I encountered a nice bit of information compulsion the other day.
     Information compulsion is a theory by Tom Wolfe.  Wolfe says that "the best weapon journalists have is what I call information compulsion.  People are dying to tell you things that you don't know."   I first learned about information compulsion from my friend TJ who writes a blog over at https://www.lean6life.com.  And then I found this clip:



     Anyway, back to the story.  I ran into someone I knew and told her that I am scheduled to do two programs on språng this fall for the handspinners guild and the weavers guild.  I briefly described what språng is.
     And then, up piped someone who was listening: "Språng is very old!"
     I was proud of her.
     During the språng programs, I plan to keep my own information compulsion down to a minimum.  Not like last time.