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Posts from July 2008

Tour de Fleece Spinning (Week 1)

I’ve been spinning. A lot. Almost every day (except the weekend, which got busy with other life type things).
My goal for the Tour de Fleece is to spin enough laceweight Merino Tencel to be able to make something reasonably substantial out of it. Possibly a Clapotis (because apparently, I didn’t get it out of my [...]


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10 July 2008 @ 8pm

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Felting

Beady

It started innocently enough. A little puff of fibre on my desk, which I rolled between my fingers into a ball.
A thought, a splash of water, more rolling, tiny felt pebble. Hmm.
Before I could stop myself, I’d grabbed a bowl of warm soapy water, some roving from the stash and I was making felted beads [...]


Perpetual Motion

I’ve had a stressful couple of weeks, and in times of high stress I turn to spinning, as the one thing that I can do that seems to work off my excess nervous energy.
It’s not really a time for fine spinning, so first of all, I took the Yarn Yard June Club fibre – Wensleydale [...]