This time in my Hipknits silk laceweight. In some ways the silk is easier to work, in others it is more difficult. It is certainly easier to unpick mistakes in 🙂 You may be able to spot some mistakes that I did not bother to unpick… Cute little fella, ain’t he? Yes. I’m chuffed. And …
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Thou Shall…
Adventures in Tatting, Part 1. Last night I made forward progress on the tatting. Some mysteries are easier solved with the help of experienced hands… From the top: Some chain practice More chain practice, using one coloured thread (this helped a lot) with the white shuttle thread A complete ring – with inadvertent picot Lots …
Nearly there
Two nice new skeins of BFL are now sitting in my basket and I have begun to spin the final 80 gms of tops (more left than I had thought.) Almost there! Still aiming to have the task completed by the end of the week but there is a lot vying for my attention just …
I couldn’t resist
I dusted Hebbie off last night and oiled him up. I tried spinning some of the darker ShetlandX dyed fleece. I didn’t card it and deliberately didn’t worry about any slubs, as I am aiming for an art yarn rather than a garment yarn – but I did try to keep it as thin a …
You know…
You know that you married the right man when… …he fondles your freshly dyed and still wet fleece while uttering the words “I can’t wait to see this spun up!” 🙂
Ooh, colours!
Here is some of the fleece that we dyed yesterday. It’s in artificial light and with flash, so the colours are way off. It looks lovely in reality and I cannot wait to spin it up. However, I feel honour bound to get those BFL tops completed. As I am trying to up my spinning …