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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 [...]

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 [...]

Fair-isle Wristwarmers (some assembly required)

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I’ve become obsessed with fair-isle knitting, particularly using a solid and a varigated yarn, rather than two solids.
I blame Natalie and Jane for this, mostly.
Well, that, and I had [...]

Back.

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Well, what a week that was.
Last Monday night, as I walked into the spare room to sit down at the laptop and work on the fibrelust site, I turned, [...]

Bobbin along

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I know it’s a terrible terrible pun, but I’m not apologising for it, because it makes me grin, and with the week I’ve had, that’s a much needed thing.
As [...]

Handspun on Holiday

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About a year ago now, I went to the Handweavers Studio in Walthamstow and bought some dye to play with.
After playing with some merino, I dug out some combed [...]

Rainbow Roving

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Although I packed yarn to go on holiday to Crete, I didn’t expect to pack yarn to come back with from Crete.
Then I spotted an ad for a craft [...]

Handspun Merino Yarn

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Every time I go to the Handweavers Studio I find myself with a basket full of their little bundles of merino top.
They’re ickle (only 20g each), but they’re cheap [...]

Corespun Kid Mohair

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I was introduced to the joys of corespinning by Ruth when she brought a whole pile of her handspun yarn with her to Angelknits one night.
I was totally fascinated [...]

Handspun Yarn

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Two things I haven’t done in a while, in one post.
Firstly, I haven’t blogged for ages. There are a number of reasons for this, but they’re not important now.
Secondly, [...]