Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning on Aug 22nd, 2010
Proof that not all of the bugs are in the garden these days.
She followed me home, can I keep her?
I finally took the plunge and bought a spinning wheel. It wasn’t the one I thought I was going to buy, and it wasn’t the one that I really wanted but the Ladybug will [...]
Posted in Spinning on Jul 18th, 2010
In Tour de Fleece news, I’m still madly spinning, just not posting my progress. This is the 2-ounce bump of cormo from Strawberry Moon Fibers that I bought at Shepherd’s Harvest in Lake Elmo, MN in early May.
The spinning is rustic at best, veering from fingering to worsted weight and the plying is beginner’s stuff. [...]
Posted in Life on Jun 30th, 2010
Just barely still June, but it counts. Holy moley the year is half gone.
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Now that the veggie garden is planted and it’s mostly maintenance chores, I’ve spent the last week pulling weeds and spreading mulch in the flower garden around the house. I ran out of mulch before I ran out of garden. When I [...]
Hey! Go see JessaLu Knits and help her sweetie raise money to benefit their local community. It won’t cost you a penny. All you have to do is follow the link on her site to a local bank that is making grants to the non-profit organizations that win the most votes. One vote per person. [...]
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
So I finished plying the Coopworth/silk roving on Sunday, washed it up and thwacked it to set the twist. It came out much thinner than the merino I spun last week, just like I wanted. For about 24 grams (slightly less than an ounce) I ended [...]
It’s blueberry season here and we went picking last week. As much as I like strawberries, I like blueberries even more. I gladly gave away many of the strawberries we picked earlier this year but have been jealously hoarding the blues. It’s so bad that I actually bought raspberries and peaches for Jack’s breakfast so [...]
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 can spin [...]
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 de Fleece 2009. This is the first yarn [...]
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 provide [...]
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 part [...]
