Back in May on Fiber Fun Day, I made some watermelon colored batts. I’d given these batts to my Mom as a Mother’s Day present with a promise that I would take them back, spin them and knit them into something for her. I started spinning them back in July. I decided to do a [...]
Yesterday, Linda had us over for Fber Fun Day. What is Fiber Fun Day? There was dyeing of fleece and fiber. There was lots of spinning. We had our own Fiber Bus full of fiber to try and buy. For extra fun, there was drum carding. I didn’t do any dyeing, [...]
I decided to post about how I spun my fiber for the local spin-along that I mentioned in an earlier post. First, I decided to divide each of the colors in half by weight so that I had two piles with equal color amounts. In each pile was 0.5 ounces of the blue and screaming [...]
For a while now on Ravelry, I’ve been following the Ply by Night spinning group. As a newer spinner, it’s really interesting to me to see what happens in it. The idea is that everyone spins the same fiber, and then knits the same projects. The group had their first spin-along in January, and I [...]
My big goal for this year is to learn to love my stash. I decided that I need to work towards having only yarns in my stash that I like and will use. Right now it’s really a jumble of things I love and “what on earth was I thinking” yarns. Last year, I was [...]
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