Category: Spinning
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Spinster
The Jacob Humbug spinning project was finished in April. I’ve got about 125g of a 2ply yarn, of somewhat variable thickness. The singles rested for quite a while before plying, so it was quite tricky to figure out how much to ply. The tricks I learned last year at Wingham Wool work rather rely on…
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Spinning around
The spinning has made progress today. I now have two full bobbins of singles of the Jacob humbug fleece, so they are ready to ply. However, I only have three bobbins so, before I could ply, I needed to clear the third bobbin. On the third bobbin I was halfway through spinning a selection of…
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Day off with the kids
Ah, half term. A day off with no school run, but two small people to entertain all day. T took control of the tablet this morning and did some major work on his mixel collection, creating some really rather creative Lego bits and pieces. J has discovered scissors, so we spent some time clearing up…
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In which my spinning makes a great leap forward
The journey so far: I begin reading about spinning on other knitting blogs. It sounds fun, but I wonder whether it is worth the effort A friend starts spinning and is very enthusiastic about it I begin to imagine how it would feel to be able to say “I made the yarn”. I think this…
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Knitting to plan
A progress report of my attempt to be more focussed. Here is the plan, with updates: Finish the cabled orange socks – deadline 1st September. Still on the first sock Frog the fair-isle hat Done. Yarn is reskeined and ready for a bath Knit socks for sock sniper Make gradual progress on the cotton blanket…
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Sitting in the sunshine
Our new house gets so much light. Having lived in a gloomy modern reinterpretation of a cottage for nearly four years (although in all other respects it was an excellent place to live), I am really rather enjoying sitting by the French windows and feeling the sun move gradually across the sky. While waiting for…