Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Tuesday * February 7th 2012
Jul29
This all started when I bought my cottage a few years ago. I wanted a mishmash of handwoven guest towels in the bathrooms, just like Suzanne. I love all the different towels she had accumulated over the years from various guild sales that she used as guest towels. There’s a fresh pile every morning in [...]
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Jul26
Here are the all the fibers that I spun during Tour de Fleece. Not too shabby. The final tally? Breeds Spun: Merino, Targhee, Clun, Border Leicester, and Polwarth Finished Yardage: 3,852 of assorted 2 and 3 ply. Singles Spun: Over 5,000 yards of singles, without counting the Polwarth. There is likely to be another 1,500 [...]
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Jul25
Not a whole lot of progress over here. I’m still working on the Polwarth/Silk blend. I went camping for the past 3 days and forgot to load the mSpinner in the car, so I am far, far behind. I’ve only started the second bobbin this morning. The first bobbin had about 155 grams of fiber [...]
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Jul18
I finished the Border Leicester rug yarn, thank goodness. I must have left the roving marinate too long because the fiber was clumpy and difficult to draft. The fiber was so sticky (not tacky sticky, but felted sticky) in areas that it was really a pain in the neck. I am glad that it is [...]
Jul15
I won a 6 oz. package of Border Leceister/Mohair blend roving from Toots Le Blanc a couple of years ago at Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat. First thing Kathleen asked me was, “What the heck are you going to do with that?” You see, Kathleen knows that I’m a wimp when it comes to wool. [...]
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