ABOUT US
Nikol and Cathy met at Yarn School, a semi-annual spinning and dyeing workshop at The Harveyville Project. Cathy dreamed up the Acid Dye Color Source Book after a weekend dyeing session, and the two started hammering out the details while spinning at their monthly Spinsters Club meeting. Within a few weeks, the experimentation in the Dye Lab began, and a month later, the Acid Dye Quick Reference and its little sister the Acid Dye Pocket Record were born. The two are currently working on an ambitious comprehensive acid dye reference bible.
Cathy McQuitty-Dreiling has been an illustrator at Hallmark Cards, Inc for the past 25 years, creating whimsical characters as well as lettering. She was also a co-illustrator for the book From the Doghouse, Poems to Chew On, published by Henry Holt & Co. Cathy learned how to crochet from her mother while in grade school and began knitting 15 years ago. That led to weaving, then spinning and now dyeing -- basically, she loves all things fibery (that includes dogs). She's very jealous that Nikol gets to have sheep!
email: cathy [at] colorsourcebook.com
Ravelry: colorandtexture
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Nikol Lohr is the co-founder of The Harveyville Project, a creative residence, workshop and retreat housed in former school buildings in rural Kansas. She's the author of Naughty Needles and The Thrifty Knitter. She's been spinning and acid dyeing for about 3 years, knitting for 5, and crocheting since third grade. Now she's afraid she might be hooked on weaving as well (Thanks a lot, Cathy!). Before moving out to the sticks and starting The Harveyville Project, she lived in Austin, Texas, where she worked as a writer and print and web designer. She and her partner, Ron, are currently converting some of the school's playground equipment into a barn so she can finally get her little spinner's flock of three sheep before winter.
email: nikol [at] colorsourcebook.com
Ravelry: cupcake
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