Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning on Jul 9th, 2009
Two posts in a row about spinning; does that mean I’ve gone over to the dark side? This is a coopworth/silk blend that I’ve been able to pre-draft and spin fine enough that it might actually qualify as lace weight even after plying, instead of swinging back and forth between fingering and lace weight. I [...]
Posted in Spinning on Jul 6th, 2009
Specs: Fiber: Merino Top, Baltic Color Spun: Z twist for singles, S for plies. Spindle: 1 oz. Golding Ring Spindle Yardage: 55 yards give or take, 2 ply fingering weight Weight: 25 grams WPI: don’t know, haven’t measured it Purchased at: Yarn Barn, Lawrence, KS My first finished skein on Team Crankypants for the Tour [...]
Welcome to summer chickadees. It’s hot, hot, hot, but in honor of the first day of summer I knit out on the deck for a few minutes until I came to my senses. I’m not really complaining about the heat; that would be obnoxious after spending so much time complaining about our cold spring. Still, [...]
The weekend that is. My sister Gail came into town for the weekend so we made a jaunt up to the Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival on Saturday to spend the day among “our people”: others who can’t keep their hands to themselves when it comes to yarn and fiber and soft, squishy animals. As [...]
This little girl (boy?) is a Navajo Churro lamb. I wanted her for a pet but ended up with some of her wool instead. Where did I find her? At the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival. One of my sisters and I spent the day wandering around there. We’re home now but too pooped to [...]
Want to see what’s in here? Do ya? Huh? I’ll show you. Absolutely nothing! Sell a little, knit a little, rearrange a little and pretty soon you have an empty stash tub. Whatever am I going to do with it? I could fill it with dirt and plant jalapeno peppers. I could turn it into [...]
Posted in Saturday sky, Spinning on Apr 4th, 2009
Woo hoo! Gale of She Shoots Sheep Shots made it into the top 20 finalists so she’s still in the running for her dream assignment. Keep your fingers crossed, the final winner will be announced April 24. Thanks for voting for her. &&& Here’s this morning’s sky. and turning 180 degrees. && I’m off to [...]
Posted in Spinning on Mar 29th, 2009
but not a drop spindle to buy. As I alluded to in my earlier post, I’m in the grip of a new obsession. At Knitting in the Neighborhood Tuesday night Deb gave me a lesson in spinning with a drop spindle and I’ve been practicing with my Louet spindle ever since. I got this as [...]
