‘spinning’ Category
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A Ton of Wool
September 6, 2011 by sunrisesister
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Spin: Little Speckled Hen
July 26, 2011 by sunrisesister
I think I left my knitting mojo in Bendigo. No idea why. Perhaps the over-abundance of yarn and pretties has just fried my brain, and I don’t know where to start! So a little spinning is in order…
Fibre: EGMTK Little Speckled Hen in Merino.
Something is happening with my spinning. Either my hands have now fully recovered from the surgeries, or practice really does make perfect.. Or maybe it’s the new wheel, but my spinning has gotten MUCH finer! This is incredibly fine! If I knit this as a single, it would easily be a laceweight.
The down side is….. it takes FOREVER to get thru a braid of fibre
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Bendigo 2011
July 26, 2011 by sunrisesister
Another year, another sheep show, and another amazing (long) weekend away with amazing people! And again, I managed to take hardly any photos, because my hands were full of a wriggling toddler/fibre/yarn/shopping/hugging friends. Oh well!
Three Bags Full..
The house we were staying at this year was *amazing* – we have found our new Bendi home! Huge, many many rooms, and even a seperate retreat. Perfect for lots of families and kids of all ages. Kangaroo spotting and sunsets/sunrises was the order of the day, and we all enjoyed chilling by the fire in the evenings.
The best bit about going up a few days early, is the time we spent actually relaxing and enjoying Bendigo itself. Lake Weeroona is spectacular, and the weather was just fabulous to match.
(But god, am I kicking myself for forgetting the pram/stroller until N drove up and joined us on the friday night! My arms were killing me!)
We popped into the wonderful Bendigo Pottery, a destination which will be a regular for us!
The show was exhausting as usual, but what a day! I got to see lots of familiar faces, and as usual got to put some faces to rav names and blogs. There was much stash snaffling, and I really enjoyed seeing lots of new vendors as well as the favourites.
On to the stash!
Finds from the BWM back room
Yarn from the show
Fibre from the show
That’s my fibre and yarn spendings for the year
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Spin: Wide Awake
May 17, 2011 by sunrisesister
This was a very quick spin, a gift for a friend who did my PDF pattern design for me
Fibre: SCF Wide Awake on Polwarth
Ply: 2 ply
Weight: about a 3-4ply (!! yes!!)
109g
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FO: Tater Tot’s Beanie, again
April 2, 2011 by sunrisesister
I had some leftover handspun.. just enough for a tiny project..
I used the same pattern as the last, but added an icord stem, and leaf from a free pattern I found on google. I am just loving it
Yarn: Handspun SCF New Crush polwarth (about an 8ply) Navajo/3ply
Sticks: 4.5mm magic loop addi click
Patterns: The Shizknit’s Baby Boy Beanie, and this leaf pattern
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