Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Feb26
I’m starting to get worried. The shawl is not yet at half the depth that I want, but I’m almost half way through the yarn. It’ll take much more than that to get to the desired depth. I think I’m going to have to hit the Stitches West Market tomorrow. Darn.
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Feb24
Got out of the house this morning and saw these markings at the end of the driveway, directly behind my car. And the next photo was taken around the corner. I thought the city was finish with our block last summer. (This is my first attempt at posting via the WordPress iPhone app. See failed [...]
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Feb22
Garter stitch shawl on 3.00mm shawl is deathly dull, no matter how pretty the yarn is. 12 bobbins of singles? 6 down. So far, over 1400 yards of light worsted weight yarn. I think I will have well over 2400 yards by the time I’m done. More than enough for a sweater.
Feb20
Do you know what this is? This is the bottom of a capacious Rovings bag. It seemed bottomless while I was spinning it. Now, it looks like this: 12 bobbins of singles. I spun all of the singles on my Schacht Matchless with the Woolee Winder. All on the same bobbin, and then wound off [...]
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Feb20
(This post was started while I was still in Washington. I’m back in California now.) All of my reference books are back in California, but I want to cast on now. Thankfully, there are a lot of excellent references on the internet. I have always wanted a Faroese styled shawl. Something that will sit and [...]
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