I’d planned to do an update on how my trip to sleeve-island is going (better), but then the cat wanted many snuggles. And for the sake of household peace I could not deny her this thing. So behold instead, a lovely cop of yarn I finished plying earlier this year:… Read More »This Post is a Shameless Cop-Out
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
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?
Last week I sent AwesomeE a picture of a finished cowl, and she responded that I must have finished it really quickly. At which point I realized I’ve been working on it accidentally in secret. It’s a fairly basic pattern, so it’s been my travel project for taking the train… Read More »Stealth Projects
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 have stayed focused since my last post and worked almost exclusively on my cowl and plying. The cowl is only a few rows away from complete though I definitely have a game of yarn chicken in progress: If I need to I can finish it with more of the… Read More »Progress visible and barely visible
As we were driving back from Voroneț to Iași, my aunt remarked that I had clearly been working on multiple things over the holiday and asked just how many I brought with me. And was I working on all of them? Or had I finished that red yarn before I… Read More »So how many projects did you bring??
My Tour de Fleece goals have been modest this year: finish the Pomegranate mohair (including plying) and spin at least 15min each day. I met the first goal over the weekend in Amsterdam: 200+ yards of 2ply mohair in a color dubbed “Pomegranate”: I bought the mohair back in 2014… Read More »Tour de Fleece update
One of the last things my husband and I packed up before leaving was our artwork. We both come from art loving families, and each brought a fair bit of artwork to our marriage, whether it was pieces collected by family members over the decades, or (especially on my side),… Read More »Home Decor, Orange and Pink
