Wow. April? April was really my last post? As we sit here in the final days of 2010, I can’t help but look back over the last year. For me, fate put me on a roller-coaster in late March, and didn’t really let me off the ride until this fall. There was no activity here on the [...]
Last March, I posted the fiber I got from Briar Rose Fibers for the Ply by Night Ravelry spin-along. It was a mix of interesting colors, and I really had no idea how it would look spun into yarn. The colors were misted throughout the top, not done in sections like most fiber I had [...]
I finally knit my first pair of handspun socks. I finished knitting them in December, but I just finished up weaving in the ends and blocking them. The yarn was spun from a Dicentra Designs 80% Merino / 20% Tussah Silk roving in the Margartiaville colorway that I received for my birthday. I started spinning [...]
The thread plied yarn I posted about before is finally finished. I began by winding it off the bobbin and on to my niddy-noddy. You can see how much twist is still in the yarn as I took it off of the niddy-noddy. I’m used to the yarn twisting on itself lightly, but this was [...]
I’ve been working on spinning yarn using some new-to-me techniques over the past week or so. It all started when I decided to spin up one of the batts that I made back in July, when I borrowed Kate’s drumcarder. I’d been photographing them to put into my Ravelry stash, and I thought I should [...]
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