Fire Stash

The Fire stash is something of an embarrassment (Fire runs February/March – so I am on a losing streak here). Worse still, this isn’t all of it – I forgot to include some WIP yarns Fire: Red, Orange, Pink In addition to this little lot, I have the Violet Green Stroud Supersock in Red Hot …

Air Stash

Hardly worth calling a stash! Air: White, Grey, Yellow 300 grammes of BFL commercially spun 4ply yarn, some alpaca fibre to spin (can’t wait!), and a somewhat desperate inclusion of  two yarns from a Colinette grab bag (neither of which is honestly grey) – and no yellow in the house at all. I daresay the …

Water Stash

I reorganised my spinning fibre and my yarns into colour groups according to the PS3 Elements colour groups. It wasn’t easy, there are some overlaps as I like certain colour mixes, such as blue and green together and purple with almost anything… This is Water: Blue, Purple, Black I had two stabs at it. Seems …

ATC

I would normally post this over at Fairhand (and I did post it there too) but this deserves special mention here too. A fabulous textile ATC from the Project Spectrum ATC “Fire” swap in today’s post from Helen Darmara. I don’t have any photos yet, but you can see the ATC, and its pair, on …

The little miracle called blocking

I tried another photo session today. I wanted to get decent snaps of my felt, and also a FO shot of the Noro Hat – plus a quick snap of a newly cast on project. I was surprised (why? I shouldn’t have been) when I picked up the Noro Hat (should I call it a …

Groovy, baby

Knitting this hat for Mr L is proving to be deeply satisfactory. I love the fact that I can now call a yarn into being from almost nowhere at all in just a day or two. That’s great. Even better is the fact that it now looks like proper yarn – it’s properly plyed now, …