Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Jan25
While Mom was over the other day, she asked if I could make her a hat. It’s been COLD in California. There are now 2 hats for her choose from (or both). Unfortunately, she will have to wait until after I return from my Color Institute Workshop at Earthues before I can give it to [...]
Jan19
Title says it all. Singles on the left (approx. 45 wpi), and 2 ply on the right. I’m in the process of respinning the 2 ply to add more twist to it before I ply it again to make cabled yarn.
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Jan18
There’s been much talk on Spin-List about Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Pi Shawl. Predictably, a knitalong was started. Not quite so predictable, gasp!, I joined. I don’t do KALs in general, because I don’t like to be a crowd. But, I saw this as an opportunity to give myself a kick in the butt to finish the [...]
Jan12
After I read about cabled yarn for sock knitting in Spin-Off, I tore through my stash looking for appropriate fiber to turn into socks. For the first time, I made a sample card that I referenced while I spun. My goal is to make sock weight yarn, similar to one of my favorite sock yarn, [...]
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Jan10
I finally finished the second sock of the pair I started back in November. No long car trips nor (non-work) meetings, so these sat in a corner of my WIP shelf. When I pulled it out this weekend to work on, I only pulled out the working sock. I didn’t pull out the finished sock [...]