As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, here are my “spoils of war” from the Fiber Festival: Let’s see…clockwise-ish from top left: * Patterns from various vendors. * A “headache pillow” made from lavender & flax seed from Cherry Hill Quilters. * Blue/green fiber is 4 oz. of Polworth from Fuzzy Bunny. * [...]
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We took a whirlwind trip to Rhinebeck over the weekend (we left Saturday afternoon and came back late last night…or early this morning, depending on your point of view!) I was determined not to buy anything to spin, as I haven’t spun anything I got at Hemlock yet, and I have to confess that most [...]
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This is my great, great Aunt Amy learning to spin. She turned 90 almost two years ago. I hope I got her genes, and that I’m still learning new things 60 years from now!
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Here’s what I got at the festival: At the top of the basket, two bean soup mixes from Healthy Sisters’ Soup & Bean Works and one of two 4 oz. hanks of hand-painted merino from High Bid Farms (the other is already half spun on my wheel – which is at the shop or I [...]
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Apparently, a shawl I knit four years ago has generated some interest at Knitting Daily. How exciting! But when I clicked the link to my own page, I realized that all of my actual current projects weren’t even mentioned on my current projects list. So, without further ado, here are my current projects: Clue #1 [...]
Posted in Knitting, Mystery Stole 3, SockapalOOOza, Spinning
Check out the pink smooshy yarn I made! It’s pretty darn bulky all plied up – around 9 or 10 wpi depending on where you measure, as I’m not the most consistent spinner yet. I wound up with 188 yards split into two skeins about 84 yards apiece and a tiny skein of 20 yards [...]
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This past Saturday, my mom and I went to the spinning guild meeting. I have to confess, after all of the excitement of learning how to spin, discovering that the spinning guild meets in my town and being given a wheel of my own, spinning kind of fell off the map in terms of my [...]
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