Posted in Spinning on October 18th, 2010 No Comments »
I once swore I wouldn’t post without photos, so I present the best photo I’ve taken all year: See? That was worth waiting for. 550 yards of a heavy fingering weight yarn, lofty and soft superwash merino from this fiber by AllSpunUp (still damp when I took this). I proved to myself that I can [...]
Posted in Laila's Socks, Spinning, Sweet Fern Mitts, Top-down Ribbed Beanie, socks on July 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
Though the last week of the Tour was filled with travel and a visit from my parents, I was still a productive spinner – this is 8 ounces of California Variegated Mutant spun up into about 175 yards of sportweight 2-ply. Of course, I thought this yarn was worsted weight, and I ended up using [...]
Posted in Fionn, Leyburn Socks, Spinning, socks, sweaters on June 28th, 2010 6 Comments »
For me, learning to spin has been an exercise in patience. I balanced the idea that every time I tried to spin it was hard and I sucked against the notion I kept reading about: it takes a pound of fiber to get any good at spinning. So if I gave up before I had [...]
Posted in Modern Garden Cardigan, Spinning, knitting confessions, knitting in public on March 15th, 2010 No Comments »
My one regret? I turned off the Olympics after the (awesome) hockey game because I didn’t want to see the torch go out without having finished, and I missed William Shatner and the dancing maple leaves.
Posted in Fionn, Spinning on February 8th, 2010 2 Comments »
Do you remember the first yarn you stashed? I do; I found a single skein of Paton’s Ballybrae in navy Black Forest Tweed at my (very) local LYS not too long after I first picked up the needles. It was already discontinued in 2003, so with my usual retail obsessiveness I set off on a [...]
Posted in Spinning on May 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Some of you may have figured out that spinning has snuck into my life on little cat feet. I was seriously worried my brain would get rusty without the chance to learn something new, so for my 39th birthday last May, I gave myself spinning lessons at my LYS. I got it, I practiced, yet [...]
