OM NOM Romney
All I can say is yum. I went with Terry on Saturday to Wet Thistle Farm to pick out fleeces. Usually this farm’s fleeces aren’t available to the public- a yarn company snaps up their whole clip. This year, however, there were some available, and as Terry promised it was oh so very worth the [...]
Spinning a Single for a Sweater
Last Spring before the Tour De Fleece I fell in love with The Painted Tiger’s Golden Oak BFL. Here, look, a picture ganked from her site: Don’t you just want to snorgle that? I did. I bought a pound of it. So I only just now got around to starting to spin it. My goal [...]
ISO: The Perfect Sock Yarn
I’m enjoying my carder a great deal. This is an experiment in making a better sock yarn. 40% Romney, 40% Clun Forest, 20% silk. I intend to spin it semi-worsted and then cable it into a 2×2 cabled 4 ply. In my brain it’s AWESOME! My new (to me) Strauch Petite carder is pretty comfortable [...]
Kerry Hill
I received a box of rare breed fiber from sarahw this Saturday; she offered some samples form fleeces she has on Ravelry. First off, look at these guys, they’re adorable! I like this fiber. A lot. Enough that I’ve reached out to the only farm in the US with any Kerry Hill bloodlines; they are trying to breed [...]
Swatchy Swatch
Today’s telephone time crafting has been swatching Henrietta. My goal is to end up with a shoulder wrap thing, with alternating swaths of stockinette and lace, set off by garter ridges. There have been a number of patterns lately that use this technique to good effect. I started on US 6′s, which is the blue/green [...]
Henrietta and the Strawberries
Strawberries are perverse plants. Last spring I built them a lovely mound. I amended the soil. I planted 4 varieties developed in the region, mixing ever-bearing and June bearing so we would have a big initial crop and then a constant small supply. I trimmed their runners, so the mother plants would focus on their [...]
La Push retreat with Judith MacKenzie
On Sunday after brunch I left for this retreat. It’s now Friday, the official retreat is over, and I’m here on my own for a day, expecting Zack and David tonight. To say I’m missing them would be putting it mildly. I kept rolling over in bed last night expecting the weight of a cat [...]
Henrietta spins!
I’m not certain if it was Stacey’s intention, but the name Henrietta and the merry mottled colors of this braid remind me of a book my Granny read me as a kid, The Tale of Henrietta Hen. I purchased the braid on a complete whim, after finding out from David that he & Stacey had [...]
This here blog thing
I believe I’m going to start recording my fiber noodlings here. I’ve been posting bits of my adventure in Ravelry groups and recording bits in project notes and photo sets, but it would be nice to combine it all into a single location where there was chronology and coherence, so it would be easy to [...]
Spinning
I am captivated with the idea of spinning diaphanous woolen yarns. Last night I tore up 4 oz of roving from DragonFibers, sorting it by color, and then mussing up the fiber, first making pseudo-rolags but then tearing it up and crossing the fibers every which way and spinning the random bits as the presented themselves. … I have an idea of having it start out fine but then get progressively chunkier, and knitting it in pattern that follows the yarn; first a fine pretty lace pattern, expanding into a bigger and bigger pattern as the shawl expands.
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