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So this is what I've been doing with the alpaca... The first five pictures are various combinations of dyed lilac-grey alpaca and black alpaca. Sometimes carded, sometimes blended together, sometimes spun as-is. The fourth picture has some silk noil spun in - someone from the Bucks spinning, weaving...
Ages ago now, I went to Hay-on-Wye with friend-R. I bought second hand books, as you do in Hay (it's a small village in Wales with dozens of second hand book shops), including some vintage knitting books. I bought them for various combinations of because they're funny and because they're useful -...
fiber bought from all spun up (80% merino 20% silk) and it's navajo plied
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playing catch up. here is some of the yarn I've spun in the last few months: vesper south african fine fiber spun and then navajo plied: Spunky Ecclectic BFL fiber also navajo plied: Fiber Denn merino fiber also navajo plied:
Here are some shots of my recent visit to Olds, Alberta for my Level 4 Master Spinners Class. #1 is my distaff dressed with flax. #2 is Karly R and Arlene C working at the dye pot. # 3 is our bundles of yarn for our color wheel, dyed with a percentage dye method. #4 is a class picture, #5 show some...
I am back from my level 4 master spinners course in Olds, Alberta. What a beautiful place. Exactly what you'd expect a grass prairie to look like. Amazing!! Sky for miles and off to the west the Rockies jump off the horizon like so many jagged teeth. The class went really well. Our instructor made a...
When a LARGE animal dies at one's home the question of what to do with the beast arises. In our case, with really hot weather approaching (100 degrees F +) we simply could not wait. We called the renderer, now the company calls itself &*^% Commodities. I don't want to use their real name. They do a...
So, for those who don't live with ESPN on in the background (as I seem to do) or follow golf - Tiger Woods won the US Open this past weekend. Well, actually on Monday. After 19 *extra* holes. On a bad knee. But, we didn't know HOW bad until more recently. Apparently, he has a torn ACL (which from...
Photos that show what I've been up to this spring.
Spinning, cycling, whatever you call it. I tried a spinning class for an hour tonight. Whew! I am wiped out. My bike training rides seem rather lame by contrast. Clearly, I needed to kick it up a notch. What else this week? I swam for 30 minutes and discovered that I have almost no upper body...
As I think I mentioned, a couple of months ago I acquired a large amount of raw fleece -- five bags full, in fact. I gave away all but one bag, which I retained in order to have the critical experience in every spinner's life -- the sheep to sweater phenomenon. I thought it might be fun to share the...
In the last week, I've had two crafting dates with different groups of women, and I've resurrected two old projects. In the first crafting date, with one knitter, one mender and one, umm, court jester ;-) (R did bring some work with her, but in the end she didn't do any of it), I swatched yet...
Yes, I said that I had been crafting lately. Here's the proof. There are comments on each photo if you click them. RM By the way...I wove the background fabric on my loom. I thought it came out well for my first cloth of significant size.
SELF PORTRAIT THURSDAY! 5.22.08 Spinning yarn on the studio's new spinning wheel. (The shirt I'm wearing is a shirt I bought from Loyalty and Blood on Sunday morning at the Brooklyn Flea Market. It's a cool shirt full of crazy/"evil" drawings like upside down crosses and anarchy signs and finger...
Yesterday I finished the Coriolis socks, and I love them. They match rather than mirror, because I forgot to read the 'second sock' bits of the instructions, but I don't care. I used a modified version of Cat Bordhi's modified icord bind off, continuing the stitches from the spiral 'seam' into the...
Busy fiber week here... At Maryland Sheep and Wool, I purchased a plastic bag full of nasty, filthy Lincoln fleece bits for only $2.00. I finally got a bit of it washed, and ready to comb. I think some of it might be too matted and/or felted to use, but some of it is most definitely spinnable! One...
Yesterday, something unheard of happened; I walked into a store with the intent to buy a dress for KB's wedding. I strolled to the sale rack, grabbed the first color that appealed to me (MUSTARD!), which happened to be a size 8 (small, but whatev, I gave it a shot). This is the last one on the rack,...
I have been Hooked T_T I'm a huge fan now. and it certainly didn't help that I knew all the actors (except Chris and David) that had played the role of the Doctor in the past. I'd have to say Chris is my favorite though and I HATE IT that he left after only one season. Don't get me wrong David is...
When I was at the Autumn Home Show last month I was tempted into buying some dyed and carded polwarth fibre from Sharon of Jumbuck Carding. There was only 85 grams left of the heathered sliver (top-left), so I nabbed that, and a quantity of a solid purple. I didn't have a plan for them when I...
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