Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Jan09
Lesson #1: use worsted spun yarn For the silk pouch, I spun the silk from the fold. While this allowed me to spin a thicker yarn (my own personal spinning quirk, your mileage may vary), it also produced a fuzzy woolen yarn. This may be desirable in many instances, but not in two end knitting, [...]
Jan07
I turned that Z-plied silk into this little silk pouch (click for larger image). It’s made using Tvåändsstickning, or two end knitting, which is also known as twined knitting. This is a technique that I’ve wanted to try for over a year, but kept putting off because I never got around to spinning my own [...]
Jan05
When your cramps are so bad, it wakes you up in the middle of the night. Advil isn’t doing it. You lay there moaning and wishing you could die right there and then. Can’t sleep. Can’t focus to read. Besides, your cat — the one with the toothy fang — really wants to get back [...]
Jan01
While skeining up 5 oz. of lace weight yarn this evening, I broke my niddy noddy. The picture on the left is a picture I took back in September 2003. See how the cross bar is already bowing in this photo? I had 3x the yardage on it today when it broke. If any of [...]
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