Hi, I'm Cate Carter-Evans,
Proprietress

Welcome to Infinite Twist!




Let's stitch together a more sustainable and more socially just world. 

Let's have comfy clothes that actually fit and meaningful home textiles that last.

Let's allow beauty and utility to hold hands. 

Let's be more skillful and less wasteful.

Let's have our own circular economies.

Let's make things that matter.

From socks to sheets and jeans to wedding gowns, textiles are an intimate and ubiquitous part of the human experience. I have 100% certainty that textiles (in some form) are touching your body right now - unless you're reading this in your bathtub, in which case you're going to need a towel (textile!) very shortly.

Because textiles are everywhere, it's easy to lose sight of them - and lose sight of how textiles have been hijacked.

A hundred years ago, you'd be lucky to own two pairs of socks at the same time. Now we've got sock drawers overflowing with holey and low-quality socks most of us don't even know how to mend. Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes is a happy medium - the right number of well-maintained and well-loved socks for your life.

It doesn't just stop at socks, though. With lots of help from the fashion industry, we've been trained to value "new" and "cheaper" over high-quality and personal clothing. And heaven help you if you have a body that doesn't fit the standard measurements.

I probably don't need to tell you that more cheap goods are not good for the environment. The consequences are dire and depressing and not evenly distributed. Textile "recycling" is frequently some of the most egregious green-washing imaginable, with an added bonus of depositing first-world waste in countries with fewer resources to deal with it. 

So let's fix it.

I love textiles, and neither "dire and depressing" nor "greenwashing" are my jam.

Textiles are practical magic and some of the first technologies we figured out as a species.

They deserve better.

Whether you'd like to learn to make your own clothes and household items, or support upcycling and handmaking with the purchase of a finished item, you're in the right place.

With just a few basic skills - which I would love to teach you! - you can take back your textiles. From clothing made to fit your body (yes, your actual, real, right-now body), to cozy quilts that merge beauty and up-cycling, to home textiles that are meaningful to you beyond the latest commercial "trends", the textiles that surround you can be high-quality and personal -  without costing the earth.

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Why Gradients?

Because gradients stay interesting. It’s possible that I have a short attention span in my knitting life, but even a color I’m over the moon about becomes one I never want to see again after I’ve made a whole sweater in it.

My Helix Giant Gradients change colors every 30 - 50 y, and the smaller gradients change even more often. My gradients are also semi-solid so you get areas of light and dark, highlights and lowlights, and even some speckles. They’ll hold your interest from cast on to bind off.

Gradients are perfect for meditative projects and for new knitters. Choose a simple pattern, and let the yarn do the work - you’ll end up with a spectacular one-of-a-kind finished object.

Gradients are fun to dye. I love the challenge of working with wildly contrasting colors that wouldn’t work together using traditional dye techniques. I think the fun comes through in the finished yarn.

Care and Feeding

Gradients generally behave like normal yarn, but there are a couple of caveats.

Gradients can bleed at first wash, and I  don't recommend knitting them together with very pale colors as a result.Especially with my SuperWash yarn bases and especially with neon colors and high-contrast gradients, don't leave your finished objects to soak for more than five minutes.

The longer an item soaks, the more dye gets a chance to migrate. There's generally no need to soak longer than this anyway unless an item is heavily soiled, and heavily soiled items are best left to a dry cleaner.Use body-temperature water (not warmer than 40C / 104F), and mild detergent or wool wash. Use a salad spinner or a towel to remove excess water before drying flat.

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ABOUT CATE CARTER-EVANS

Proprietress of Infinite Twist

Cate Carter-Evans is an American-born quilter, dyer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and seamstress, and a permanent resident of Singapore. She's been living in Asia and immersed in its vibrant textile traditions since 2009.

Cate teaches classes in all aspects of sustainable fiber arts, dyes yarn and fiber, writes knitting patterns, weaves on her great-grandmother's antique floor loom, and spins on a wheel made by her Dad. She loves making clothes for herself and her kiddos, container gardening, canning and baking, and will put kimchi on almost anything.

She shares her projects on Infinite Twist's blog. All her activities are over-seen by two unimpressed Shanghainese street cats and a three-legged dog. Have a question?

EMAIL: cate@infinitetwist.com

Cate Carter-Evans is an American-born quilter, dyer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and seamstress, and a permanent resident of Singapore. She's been living in Asia and immersed in its vibrant textile traditions since 2009.

Cate teaches classes in all aspects of sustainable fiber arts, dyes yarn and fiber, writes knitting patterns, weaves on her great-grandmother's antique floor loom, and spins on a wheel made by her Dad. She loves making clothes for herself and her kiddos, container gardening, canning and baking, and will put kimchi on almost anything.

She shares her projects on Infinite Twist's blog. All her activities are over-seen by two unimpressed Shanghainese street cats and a three-legged dog. Have a question?

EMAIL: cate@infinitetwist.com