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
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
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
I’ve been doing a little more spinning again, with a lovely Devonia blend called “Pollen Gold” from John Arbon Textiles: I now have two 25gr turtles spun, with two more to go. I feel like I’ve finally got a good sense of both the fiber and the spindle, and I’m… Read More »Clearly not an allergy sufferer
Art Batt Surprises Last weekend I finished up my skein of bright yellow yarn from the art batt by Barn2Yarn. AwesomeE commented last time I posted about this that the batt looked “beachy somehow” and while updating my projects, I looked up the name of the batt: “Beach Sunset”… looks… Read More »Hidden layers
I’ve started another new spinning project. And this time it really is different from my long term project to create the 3ply pomegranate yarn. First, I’m using a batt which I purchased from Barn2Yarn earlier this year: As you can see, it has little bits of wool locks, and other fibers… Read More »This one really is different
I am almost done with spinning my “Ocean Rain” fiber! I was actually super duper prompt about taking my four little turtles of singles and winding them on my ball winder into two ply balls – each with two plies. I did this last Saturday, and a week later I’m… Read More »Look look look!
Yesterday I wanted to work on my beaded shawl, but a certain feline friend lost* one of the the rubber stoppers to my bead needle and nearly spilled a canister of beads everywhere the day before in leaping onto my desk. As I scrambled to rescue the beads, she starting… Read More »I made it!
I realized I might not be getting enough spinning done when I found myself twisting the car fur I cleaned out of the cat brushes into little lengths of yarn. This weekend, I correct a bit for this spinning deficit. We had a lovely warm and sunny weekend this weekend.… Read More »Finally, some spinning
This week I’ve been playing a bit with making bouclé yarns. I’ve had a bunch of mohair top and mohair locks sitting around with just that plan in mind, but had not yet gotten around to giving it a try. A couple weekends ago, I finally bought my last “ingredients”: silk… Read More »Bouclé
