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!” 🙂
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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 …
A blue and green and aqua and purple new year
Spinning day today was largely given over to dying. We dyed two panfuls this morning – one each of two different fleeces in order to compare and contrast. After the ladies had left I dyed another three panfuls. All five results are very different. ‘Tis a mystical business indeed. No photos yet – it has …
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Put those needles down!
I really need to make time to spin. But I am having so much fun with my knitting needles right now. *sigh* Where can I get another 6 hours a day from, and a further pair of hands? And I shall miss spinning group this week, too. I am on puppy duty this week.
Pine Cone off the needles
My Pine Cone Scarf is off the needles – I completed it at spinning group this morning. At 15 pattern repeats on each end, it is rather long. I may have overdone it. Comments relating to Dr Who were made. *blush* Now ready to block (how do I do that in secret?) and fringe. It’s …
Cherry-almond spinning
Spinning day today, at P’s. The cake was cherry and almond. I like spinning at P’s. I have discovered that, if I sit on her sofa, it’s very comfortable for my bad arm and it doesn’t aggravate it, even if I spin all morning – so the BFL is progressing. Painful slow progress, to be …