Despite spending almost all of Saturday engaged in beating the Puzzlecrunch, or not, and most of Sunday engaged in a distressing battle of wits with WordPress… …I have managed to complete the third bobbin of the merino/mohair. The end is now in sight. Unfortunately, the CISRA puzzle is also now well in sight, as is …
Tag archives: Spin
Making Time
My fibre stash is not decreasing. I need to make more time in which to spin. But how? I was thinking that I need to spin more regularly, rather than having intense spurts that end up hurting my joints. Ideally, I think that I should do an hour a day, every day (or most days, …
Blog crossover
I blogged over at Fairhand, the arrival of a Swap Bot swap package – a Yarn Ball in today’s post. It may be used for a freeform knitting project. Or not. I don’t know yet. Spinning Group this morning: I managed to ply off my first two bobbins of the mohair/merino red/gray tops. It has …
Simply Spiffing
We may be on a roll – I grafted the toes of my sock at spinning group this morning. I was torn between letting the impetus carry me forward, and casting on the second sock, or shifting some of that red and grey merino/mohair. The spinning won. We admired F’s refurbished loom, and I …
I have the itch
I don’t just have the itch to cast on at the moment, nor just the itch to spend (see below) but my hands are genuinely itchy. Really, really itchy. I am sensitive to UV and the little sunshine that we have had recently has set me off. I don’t understand how – when I was …
Rippit
I’ve frogged the Fountain Hat. I spent an inordinate amount of time tinking this thing every couple of rows or so. The tension is all wrong. The needle size is wrong. And it is impossible to read the knitting and find the errors easily. So, a two-stick attempt next. Friday Spin Three of us met …