I’ve updated my Etsy shop in the last couple of days. I’ve got two new skeins of yarn and some little beaded stitch markers. The new yarns are the two shown below on the upper right, the dark Polwarth and the pink BFL. They were both from Portland based Abstract Fiber and I loved spinning both [...]
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
First things first… My fuzzy little cloche hat won a blue ribbon at the county fair! This was in the crochet category, and I honestly was not expecting to receive a ribbon. After reading a story in the paper about some of the exquisite fiber arts, I almost didn’t even take it in… but, yay! [...]
Wanted to show the solution for that super-twisty corespun stuff: Now I love it! Thanks to my friends at Ravelry for helping me figure out what to do with this fiber. Also wanted to share this… I was randomly drawn for a prize on one of the days of the tour, and this is what [...]
This post is photo-heavy… ready?! So, I figured I should go ahead and wrap this up. Had fun, won a prize (more on that in the next post), and got lots of yarn spun! Without further ado, here are my final photos from this year’s Tour de Fleece: Days 18-19 – No photos. Day 18 [...]
Went raspberry picking Saturday evening at Childer’s Raspberry Farm in Albany. The raspberries are ginormous! Today I made freezer jam with them. Is it wrong to just have toast with jam for dinner? Here’s my yarny progress for the last few days: DAY 15 DAY 16 DAY 17
OMG, how many days does this thing go on? Through July 25th!? ::thud:: I’m okay! DAY 12 DAY 13 DAY 14
Day 10 was a day to rest from spinning, so instead I washed 13 skeins of yarn and dyed this Polwarth: Except I decided I hated the chestnut brown color with the yellow – at least using this method for dyeing – so today I overdyed the whole thing with cherry red and golden ochre. [...]
Been working on this for four days now… have the first bobbin done and am working on the second. Decided to take a break today (Day 9) and ply this fiber that I’d already spun. It’s merino that I dyed a while back with Easter egg dyes: As you can see, the final picture is [...]
New reader (? I think?) “Hook and Needle” has commented that she has a spindle on the way. Whoo hoo! I need a lot more practice with my spindle… any decent looking yarn you see here was done on a wheel. Since I’ve been talking about Tour de Fleece here and have been receiving search [...]
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Day 4: Left, the plied results of the Day 3 spinning. Right, starting on some merino/Tussah silk from Dicentra Designs. Day 5: Plied the Dicentra fiber from Day 4. I love how it turned out. Day 6: Polwarth from Abstract Fiber. I think I’ll be working on this for several days. Have 4 oz. total [...]
