Moving on

After winding all that 2/28 yarn I disappeared into a deep hot bath with a long drink and a spouse. Then knitted on ‘is sock in bed for a while. I am about to begin the toe shaping. It makes progress but does not enthral me. This however, does. Isn’t it gorgeous? Woken by Nell …

Ouch

Ok. I got on with my plying. It’s not finished. It’s taking ages. I had not realised just how fine I had been spinning. There’s miles of this stuff and it took forever to 2 ply a bobbin full. I now understand the attraction of the double  treadle. There’s no leaving off plying in a …

Spinning Wednesday

Spinning was at S1’s place today – in her very accommodating kitchen. Excellent scones were served. S did bring the Icelandic fleece, which was much admired. Surprisingly, I finished my roving. Really surprisingly; I spun the last piece unconsciously I think, because I thought I still had some left at the point at which I …

And other really useful stuff.: Caesium.

Now, this truly speaks to the geek in me. Genius! I could have a whole wardrobe of different elements… And other really useful stuff.: Caesium. What’s your favourite emission spectrum? Closer to home Seriously late night last night and feeling v sluggish today. Don’t even feel like knitting. I’d like to spin though – and …

Urchin Flambé

Urchin #2 – size small (very) Made from my Flambé handspun yarn. A bit gorgeous – I need to take more photos, this one doesn’t  represent the colours very well at all.

Slowly…

My long 2mm DPNs arrived today and I transferred the doyley onto them and then managed a couple of rounds of knitting. 44 rows completed and 13.22% done. Can you tell what it is yet? The long needles are very unwieldy. They will take some getting used to. Also in today’s post:  a large ball …