Category: Spinning
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Color My World
Reference While I loved working with the natural gray of the blanket, it was time for some color after completing it. Luckily, it was also time to finish up another project. My YMCA socks are done. These socks are nice and comfortable and fit well. As an added bonus, the colors didn’t pool or form…
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Hip to Be Square
Reference So it all started with the gray Romney fleece that I got at last year’s Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. That fleece then got spun into singles. The result of all of that spinning was 10 skeins of singles that contained over 200 yards that were about 14 epi. Now, I knew I wanted…
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The Weekend
Reference Ah yes. Another year, another Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. What a time. The day before the festival, I helped one of the vendors, Jennifer of Spirit Trail Fiberworks, set up her booth. She had an armada of helpers, most of whom I recognized from years past when visiting her booth. Myself and one…
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I Know There’s Something Going On
Reference Last time, I promised you that I would show what else I had going on besides the rugs; and true to my word (if a bit late), here it is. Let’s start with Benedict. I am on my second of the six skeins of baby alpaca and am just about to start decreasing for the…
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Tight Fit
Reference Yeah! I got another pair of socks done. It seems like it has been forever since I have completed a pair of socks, and after trying on the first sock of this pair, I was almost going to rip them out and try again. I had a devil of a time trying to get…
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We Need a Little Christmas
Reference Miss me? I have been busy, and the blog keeps sliding down the priority list. As an update, I am still working on the ribbed cable sock in Bad Moon Rising colorway of Dragonfly Djinni. I moved over to doing these in Magic Loop, as the small 12″ circular needle becomes difficult to work…
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Return of the Mac(k)
Reference Last time, I told you that I needed to get a new drive band for my wheel that I do my plying on, as the one that was on there was stretched out. Lucky me, I happened to have had one lying around, so I able to make the replacement and get back to…
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Escape
Reference There are a lot of reason why I am into my fiber crafts, but one of them is that they provide me a means to, at least for a short while, take my mind off of my problems and think about something else. While I am knitting, spinning, weaving, or sewing, I get to…
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Carolina in My Mind
Reference Since I that I have been talking about for the past month involved the shawl or the race, you may think that is all that I had going on for the past month. But my hands have been busy with other things. One of those is finally blocking the scarf that I knit. Here…
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I’m on Fire
Reference I have just been finishing up projects left and right. Woohoo! (Ok, this is bound to happen sometime when you start a whole bunch of projects at the same time when you really shouldn’t; but let’s not focus on that part right now.) First completion are the Elongated Chevron socks in Black Pearl Naiad.…