The SpaceCadet’s Gradient Explorers

Shop/The Clubs/The Gradient Explorers We get emails like this… Oh, these emails make me so happy! They’re from our Gradient Explorers subscribers, who venture outside their usual palettes to experience a explore colour with us. And they all create new projects in colours they wouldn’t have normally chosen …but discover they absolutely love. Welcome to…

The SpaceCadet’s Last Minute Gift Guide

So it turns out my sister has done all her holiday shopping already — she’s all set.  A couple of my friends mentioned that they’re done too.  Even my husband has a little pile of gifts stashed away in the closet. I am woefully behind.  In fact, I could count the gifts I’ve got taken…

Designer Jenise Reid on Knitting for a Great Fit

If I had plans to get 2015 off to a rip-roaring start, 2015 had other plans for me.  The past ten days have seen my family dealing with a concussion (not mine), a corresponding trip to ER (all’s well), and four cases of full-blown flu (the real deal: high fevers, miserable chills, night sweats…  it’s…

Gorgeous Pattern Picks for Firebrand, the Yarn Alliance’s Latest Colourway

(*spoiler alert* Close your eyes if you don’t want to see the latest Yarn Alliance colourway!) When I first started dyeing, I worried a little that I might run out of colours.  Seriously, I did.  I mean, Roy G Biv is only seven letters…  There can only be so many combinations, right?  And I kind…

Making That Connection

Driving home the other week from back-to-back trunk shows, I was on an absolute high.  The owner of one of the shops had said to me that she thought that trunk shows were so much fun because her customers really liked making that conection to the dyer.  And as I thought about it, I knew…

A Weekend of Near Disasters… And Silver-Linings

Every time I do a show, I get nervous as the day approaches.  A million thoughts go through my head…  Have I dyed enough yarn?  Is the colour balance right?  Do I have everything we need?  Will the weather hold?  Will the booth fall down? Will I end up in hospital? **sound of a record…