At long last, the Ocean Drift roving is all spun up and skeined.
A pretty yarn, very silky and with much drape.
Project details and photographs.
Tag archives: Spin
Spinning Wednesday
Spinning was with S this week. Added delights included a very nice tea bread, and Earl Grey tea, plus two carrier bags of angora fibre goodies sent to us from Orkney Angora (details of which I need to catalogue and circulate to the spinning ladies for the purposes of informing the divvying up of the …
Looking East
The Big Push on that UFO shawl project has been going very well. From picking it up on Tuesday at 18% done, it is now 75% completed. Maybe. That is if I do not elect to add a few extra repeats. I think this shawl is destined for the bedroom, to pop round my shoulders …
Spinning Day
I failed to get any spinning done but I did knit on my latest project, though not much – a poor night left me feeling very lacklustre today. I am approaching the end of the second ball, nonetheless.
Spinning was chez moi again. We had the “Queen Mum’s Cake” today, and it slipped down very nicely, thank you…
Spinning Cake: Jubilee’s Squidgy Chocolate Squares
Another in our series of cake recipes for the cakes that we make for spinning group. This one comes from SpinningGill and is a tried and tested chocolate brownie recipe that is perhaps a little more economical to make than some others. None the less delicious, though!
Measurements are in Imperial.
Spinning Cake: Moist Chocolate Cake
Spinning is here tomorrow, so I have been making cake today. I have just enough time to share the recipe before I return to the work that I ought to be doing instead of this particular displacement activity…
This chocolate cake is reasonably economical – it’s low on eggs (2) and doesn’t involve too much chocolate, although it tastes as though it does.