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
So, I must confess… we’ve had a couple visits from the delivery people this week. The first was to deliver some yarn I’d ordered from a shop in Berlin, Wollen Berlin. This is one of the shops I visited in Berlin what seems like ages and ages ago (hmm… probably… Read More »Can You Have Too Much Orange?
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
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!
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
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
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
It’s the end of summer, so really, it’s more wasps than bees flying around these days (I think the kitten has finally figured out wasps are dangerous toys). But I feel like I’ve been a busy bee. Last weekend anyways was unusually action packed, especially for the Covid-era. On Saturday,… Read More »Busy Busy Bees
It’s a gray and rainy day today. It started with a light drizzle last night – so light I wouldn’t have realized it was raining outside but for the damp cats and wet paw prints across the floor. The Norwegian Forest cat comes with a built-in “rain coat” so they… Read More »Rainy days and Log Fires
