Mom and I had planned to go to Maryland Sheep and Wool last weekend, but the sheer volume of rainfall was going to turn it into Muddyland Sheep and Wool instead – so we stayed home. It was a disappointment to miss the festival, but I think we made the right choice. Remember last April when I knit the Puppies wrap and I accidentally...
It’s rare that I go to a yarn shop and don’t sigh over a pile of Zauberball Crazy in all the colours, and now at last I have one of my very own! Friend Monica returned from a trip with this beauty as a souvenir for me: a ball of Zauberball in the “Tiefe Wasser” colourway, which coordinates perfectly with at least 75% of...
Michael has had this patriotic Sugar ‘n Cream cotton yarn sitting on his windowsill for… well, for a while. He’d thought he might learn how to crochet, but that didn’t really happen, so on Sunday while we were watching the football games I made a new washcloth, using my own Scrubbing Nubbles pattern (which is free on Ravelry, if you want to make a...
(Read to the bottom for a look at my newest hat pattern, coming out tomorrow! I’m so excited!) Yesterday I went to the Maryland Alpaca and Fleece show with a carful of friends. It was considerably smaller than May’s Sheep and Wool, and also quite a bit colder and windier. I was more than a little tempted to buy a woven blanket and wear...
In preparation for the Great Sweater Spin (the custom blend of fibre I ordered from World of Wool) I busied myself by finishing the spinning project I already had going and knocking out a new one as well. Michael’s mom gave me four ounces of this yak-silk blend from Greenwood Fiberworks a few years ago, and after a lot of waffling over whether I’d...
A very kind Raveler sent me a bit of their leftover yarn so that I could finish the Textured Socks. So finally, almost a year after I started them, they are done! Hooray! I used the free Stanton pattern and just over one skein of Socks that Rock Lightweight in the Smokey Mountain Morn colourway. The pattern was well-written and easy to follow, though...
This is the official end of 2016 tallying-up post! Incoming fibre in 2016: Split half of an eight-pound MDSW fleece with Caroline 4 pounds, not accounting for weight lost to the washing and carding process Outgoing fibre in 2016: 6 ounces of Ashland Bay Merino Tussah became 353 yards of two-ply yarn 4 ounces of Sheepish Creations Merino/Bamboo/Nylon became 348 yards of two-ply yarn...
This is the official end of 2015 tallying-up post! Incoming fibre: None. Zero, zip, zilch. That took a lot of willpower! Outgoing fibre: 4 ounces Bonkers merino-tencel, spun into 250 yards of two-ply 4 ounces Bullens Wullens merino-silk-bamboo, spun into 105 squooshy yards of chain-ply 4 ounces Rambouillet, spun up forever ago, finally chain-plied into 268 yards quite a lot of mystery wool, spun...
This is the official end of 2014 tallying-up post! Incoming fibre in 2014: 19 oz Corriedale in a variety of colours, for drum carding 4 oz Bonkers Merino-Tencel, rust and cream 4 oz Coopworth gradient, greens and purples 8 oz Pucker Brush Farm BFL pencil roving, multi-coloured 4 oz gorgeously luxurious YAK AND SILK braid — 39 oz Outgoing fibre in 2014: 4 oz...
Last weekend, to kick off the Tour de Fleece, Michael and I stopped at the Mannings on our way from Connecticut to Virginia. (If I’d known it was actually only about 90 minutes from home, I would have gone there sooner!) We looked at the wheels and the looms and the gorgeous weaving projects in progress… …and then the yarn. I didn’t want to...
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