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Yarn in Production

I continue to be delighted by my lovely bog oak spindle. Last week I reached the end of the first half of the rainbow gradient: I just love how in the photo above you can see hints of the deep raspberry yarn peeking through the brilliant blue of the last… Read More »Yarn in Production

Spin Spin Spin

This last week or so, I’ve picked up my hand spinning game. First, I finished plying my Pollen Gold yarn on Monday: It looks really lovely in the sunshine in particular. I still need to give it a bath to set the twist and see what characteristics the finished yarn… Read More »Spin Spin Spin

Rebound Projects

After two weeks of project monogamy, the rebound has hit me hard. It’s not so much startitis (though I did start one new project) as bouncing between various things I had going already. I worked away at my Pollen Gold fiber, finishing up the last of the singles and getting half… Read More »Rebound Projects

Squee!

Okay, I realize the title of this post is a little… how shall we put it? A little silly? But I’ll get to the reason soon. First, a quick update on the Pollen Gold fiber I’ve been spinning: 3/4ths of the fiber is now spun into singles. The color is… Read More »Squee!

A Discerning Thief

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Over a couple days this past week I got around to washing my Barn2Yarn skeins to set the twist. Because the weather was not conducive to hanging the drippy skeins to dry outside, I did half one day, and half the next so I could hang them in our small… Read More »A Discerning Thief

A Year and a Day

In various old fairy tales, a “year and a day” is an important length of time – whether it’s the length of a magic curse, how long somebody has to complete a task, or simply the accepted length of time to remain in mourning (which is much more humane than… Read More »A Year and a Day

Quick update

I’ve mostly been working on the cowl this past week. At this point I have the pattern memorized – once I was a dozen or so rows in it became possible to see what the next row should be based on the previous ones. I’m about two repeats into the… Read More »Quick update

Brave or foolish?

For months now one of my knitting projects has been languishing in it’s project bag, untouched. This isn’t so much because I didn’t want to work on it, as that I feared working on it. It’s a lace shawl with a heavily beaded edging. I’m still working on the edging,… Read More »Brave or foolish?