My new drop spindle, with quartz whorl, and the soy silk I received as a gift last year. It is going to take me months, I think! But what a joyous colour that fibre is. And the Torch Island spinning. One skein and remaining fibre – except that I have spun half a bobbin this …
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So-so-sew
A lengthy puzzle session in bed last night resulted in no progress on either remaining puzzle but gave plenty of mindless knitting opportunity – and Kenaz is off the needles. Is Kenaz completed? I think maybe not. Despite careful weighing and calculating, I have a quantity of yarn remaining. I can now knit a gusset …
Torchy
Torchy, Torchy, the battery boy…. Remember him? 🙂 This afternoon I made inroads on the Torch Island roving. I began to worry about it as I spun it (span it?). The colours are quite high contrast really (chocolate brown, magenta, tangerine) and the single was well marled. Plying it might make it very muddy and …
Photo session
I dusted off my DSLR today, it has been many months since it saw the light of day. I even got out the tripod. I’m trying to practise yarn shots. It’s not going well. Lights, I need lights and reflectors… Anyway – here’s the rovings that arrived yesterday This is Inferno, merino roving from Copperpot …
The Knitting Curse
I have developed what may be the ultimate knitter’s curse: Tinking Mohair! Well, OK, it does sound a little Captain Haddock-ish, but any knitter worth their knitter’s salt must empathise when they hear that phrase uttered by a peer in pain. No, the Custard Mitts are not going particularly well. And I still hate mohair. …
Discipline
I have decided to apply Project Spectrum as a discipline and am about to go raid my stash box and sort it out into element groups. Anything that (remotely) fits the elements colour groups for PS3 gets knitted and knitted to schedule. Same with the fibre box. This element of discipline may save me from …