Eek, it’s been a while since I last posted here! Did you miss me?!
Rather than go through everything I’ve done lately in detail, here’s a photo montage that shows some of the highlights.
As you can see, there were lambs involved.
Click through to see more details.
Or just enjoy the pictures. I’ll write [...]
Yes, the Ravelympics are here again. After the fun of the 2008 Olympic knitalong, I just had to take part in this one. I’m not usually a winter sports fan (the last time I went ice skating was painful to both my ego and my body), but I love watching them on tv. This is [...]
It was a dull grey Saturday here today, so I took my camera for a walk, taking photos of things that make me happy. Despite the dim light, I found plenty to photograph - so many that this is a photo-heavy post, sorry if that makes it slow to load…
First of all there’s my [...]
This week, as well as doing crazy Christmas knitting that I can’t post photos of yet, I finished spinning some yarn.
It’s made from some Falkland wool tops that I bought at Wonderwool Wales in 2008, so it’s been marinating in my stash for a while. The yarn’s a three ply, around 12wpi/250m - plenty [...]
I’ve come over all bashful… and excited, as I’ve just seen that my first wholesale batch of resin spindles are now listed at The Spinning Loft.
I took a couple of photos before they left here…
But do head over to Beth’s site and take a look, especially if you’re in the US, as she’s there too [...]
During the week I cast on from the ball of yarn that I posted about last time, and after a very productive (and enjoyable) afternoon’s knitting at the Salisbury Knitter’s group, I now have the top of a cardigan for me.
The pattern is the ‘Favorite Cardigan’ from Wendy Bernard’s Custom Knits book. Like most [...]
I’m absurdly happy at having wound this ball of handspun yarn tonight… is that weird?
I’ve been teaching myself how to use a nostepinne, after Mum made a whole batch of them for the shop. I love the results of winding handspun yarn on one, this ball looks almost edible.
The yarn’s my Wildcraft Club Fibre [...]
Today on the spindle we have this…
Actually I started this at our knitting group meetup last night, but today I kept finding myself picking it up and spinning a little more. The fibre’s some of my hand-dyed superwash BFL, which drafts really smoothly. It’s one of a new semisolid range of colourways that [...]
Winter’s on the way, last night it was still tipping down with rain, so the horses wore their rugs for the first time this year. It was beautifully sunny this morning though, so the blankets came off again. Beats me how a horse can look so comfy in these things, they weigh a [...]
For today’s Tour de Fleece spinning I turned half of this…
Into this…
50g BFL/silk laceweight singles in Wildcraft’s ‘Honeysuckle’ colourway.
Apologies for the poor light in photo 2, it’s nearly 1am and consequently there’s no sunlight for taking pics with accurate colours.
Tomorrow, bobbin 2!
Oh and if anyone has any tips for how to make a [...]