First, my Tour de Fleece success for the year! I finished spinnning the first eight ounces of the “Cabbage Rose” merino, plied it, washed it, and skeined it. It’s about 900 yards in two skeins, looks just like fingering weight yarn (measures at 16 wpi), doesn’t feel too dense, and seems to be exactly what I was going for. The camera really doesn’t capture...
I’ve been steadily working on a new spinning project – a pound of pale pink wool. At 40 WPI, this is going to take a while. Daily progress pictures wouldn’t show much, but here is the first four ounces spun up, and the next four ounces ready to go…
I finished* spinning eight ounces of superwash Targhee in the “Invincible” colourway from Hipstrings, and finally got around to skeining and washing it. (“Finished” meaning there are remnants of singles on several bobbins that, if redistributed and plied, would be a decent mini-skein of yarn. So technically it’s not totally finished, but… it’s finished.) I’d been going for a fingering weight yarn that isn’t...
Current spinning project: SOCK YARN. I’m spinning eight ounces of superwash Targhee from Hipstrings in the “Invincible” colourway, which is burgundies and pinks and teals. This is what it looked like before I started: This post on Ask the Bellwether says, “For a three-ply, I estimate my singles at twice the WPI of the result; so for a result of 14 WPI 3-ply, I’d...
Because I like to get as much finished before the year ends as I can, I spent some time on December 31st plying and skeining yarn. First, two more skeins of The Fleece: I tried really hard to match the first set of Fleece yarn when I was spinning the singles for this. The good news is that I seem to be spinning less...
According to my records (haha) I bought this fibre in the summer of 2018… …and spun it that fall into a gorgeous gradient… …which I’ve now knit into the “May I Borrow This, Please” shawl (available as a free download on Ravelry), and I am thrilled with it. The pattern is well-written, and I knit the whole thing in two weeks, even with adding...
It’s here, it’s here! The Spinolution Pollywog that I won in their Tour de Fleece giveaway is HERE! Read on for lots of pictures and my first thoughts about spinning on it: Since they gave this tiny wheel to me for free, I thought it only fair to do an unboxing post and a review. Let’s dig in! The red bag on top of...
The surprise part has to come first, because I am just so excited about it – I put my name into Spinolution‘s annual drawing for a Pollywog wheel and… I won! I got this email yesterday: And I’ve spent quite a bit of time since it showed up in my inbox alternating between dazedly commenting, “I won? A spinning wheel? Whoa!” and reading reviews...
Next up: 200g of white Southdown (from World of Wool) that is destined to be sock yarn! The Corriedale singles are resting before I ply them, but this fibre has been calling to me for a while. I’ve heard that Southdown makes excellent yarn for socks – bouncy and resistant to felting – so here’s to experimentation! I haven’t decided if I want to...
A friend sent me a braid of Corriedale from Into the Whirled, in one of their Firefly-themed colourways. This one is called “The Verse” and it’s all sorts of colours – blues and purples, greens and yellows, oranges and tans. My original thought was to try a fractal spin with it, as that’s a technique I’ve been curious about for a while, but then...
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