I find that I do a lot more spinning in warm weather. I know that’s the way it worked, like, yore (since you’d shear the sheep in the spring and spin it all up to make the next winter’s woolies), but it still feels like right to my post-industrial little heart. I finished a batch [...]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Inspired by these coasters, I used some fabric I had around to make a bunch of light/dark squares. The red/white floral was a piece of flocked cotton, maybe half a yard, that came into my hands when my favorite cousin bought a house that had previously been owned by a hoarder. There was other fabric [...]
Some things! 1. A ripple blanket. I think I’m going to end up giving this to my brother and sister-in-law for Christmas. 2. A striped sweater! Making the third attempt at the neckline I want. 3. Spinning! Some finished merino/tencel and alpaca/silk in the works. 4. A lace scarf! This is the porcupine stitch from [...]
I’ve been doing pretty well at plowing through some projects that have been hanging around for altogether too long. It gets to the point where I just want them DONE. The time I spent doing production knitting for the fashion industry comes in handy here; I can really churn out product if I put my [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
I finished plying all of the wool/silk tweed over the weekend and skeined and washed it. I was a little surprised to have ended up with only 1057 yards. Somehow, it hadn’t occurred to me that a three-ply yarn would yield fewer yards than a two-ply. It’s still enough for a sweater for me though, [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
I had to move my bin of spinning fiber to get some winter clothes out of my above-closet storage space over the weekend and poking through it, was kind of amazed to see how many of them I’d already started spinning. Going clockwise from left, we have: about 8 oz. of alpaca/silk fiber with more [...]
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Monday, November 22, 2010
I was experimenting with the WordPress app on my phone with the last two posts and I like it pretty well (especially since I don’t have the photo-stretching issue that I often do with regular updates). It’s definitely handy, though for me it lends itself more to a quick photo update than much text (I [...]
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
I just finished spinning singles from about 28 ounces of wool/silk tweed that I got at Rhinebeck last year. I’m going to do a real three-ply with them, mixing singles I spun at different points in the year in hope of getting the most consistent final product possible. There are twelve bobbins of singles and [...]
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