As predicted, my niddy noddy arrived while I was out today. I’ve assembled it and skeined off the Cheviot so that I can ply some more tomorrow. I also re-skeined the poodle, which now looks rather less poodle-like and altogether more normal ordinary. It’s certainly not a good example of spinning and plying, but I [...]
Cats Paw Scarf laid out to dry. This is the closest that I get to proper blocking… spot the mistake… I’m stuck for bobbins now. Winding the SMC around my arm was not hugely successful… …and neither was the spinning and plying. I appear to have spun a poodle! Washing this stuff was fascinating. I [...]
I have completed one of the Hedera socks, and the second one is cast on, ribbed, and the pattern set. It’s a beautiful sock – but proving very slow to knit, and I can’t honestly see me completing a second one by Friday. So, I’ve finally blocked my cats paw scarf! It’s on a towel, [...]
The Hedera socks are proving to be slow work I suppose I should get them out more frequently. I turned the heel on the first one tonight, but had stitches left over, so I had to tink it. It was going too slowly and the bath was running… so I pulled it off the needles [...]
My copy of Alice Starmore’s “Fishermen’s Sweaters” has arrived. Plenty of things in it that I would like to have a go at – though some are rather skimpy for us fuller figured girls, and will need a bit of modification. Quite scary. Anyway – I am thrilled with it, and I think a number [...]
I’m feeling sad because I am not putting the effort in this year. I really did enjoy it last year, and I’ll certainly do another in the future. Not doing it this year was certainly the correct decision, but I can’t decide if I am more sad than relieved, or vice versa. Keep Fenny Company [...]
I took a little time out last night. It was time to get to grips with the way the wheel actually works. I think things finally gelled and I know fully understand the Scotch tension, and the relationship to the treadle. And about time too! I am aware of the claim that Leonardo da Vinci [...]
Dear readers, could I please ask you to bear with me? I do know blog overload when I see it, and so do you of course – so do just passed on by when it all gets too much. I won’t mind at all. The one thing I have never had difficulty in learning, is how [...]
That’s the SMC plied, and I did a good estimate of how much I needed on the Ashford bobbin – not great, but good. I have two empty bobbins now, so can spin up a second of the Cheviot. (ooh, rubbish photo…) The yarn is… interesting. Shall we call it “richly textured” ? I am going [...]
My first full bobbin from the Ashford! It’s far more even than the pink Merino, which is also in production. This is what is going back on the wheel, the Shetland/Manx/Corriedale. (From now on, I think I will refer to this fleece as the SMC.) I need to spin a bit more of this SMC, to [...]
