tuesdays are for spinning

Well.  First let me say thanks for all the comments on my Olympic project!  I can only imagine what I could accomplish in life if I were that disciplined all the time.  But, it’s not my nature, so once every four years will have to suffice!
Last week I was felled by a horrible sinus infection/bug/dreaded [...]

olympic dreams

Since I started knitting four years ago and began reading knit blogs, I’ve looked forward to the next winter Olympics so I could participate.  It sounds like so much fun – the challenge of selecting a project and race to finish, going for the gold, and all the while watching winter Olympic sports – which [...]

emerging from the cocooon

Winter hits me hardest in January.  Some people get down over the holidays but I’m too busy to really wallow in it until January.  It’s not so much that I get full blow depressed, I just withdraw.
This January I’ve had the opposite of King Midas’ touch – every project I began after completing Staghorn was [...]

wooly bully

This weekend, for the first time since I can’t remember when, we had absolutely nothing to do.  Nowhere to we had to go, no huge chores to be checked off the list, we could do what we wanted the entire weekend.  It was heaven! 
On a whim, I set up my carder yesterday morning and decided [...]

playing catch-up

Despite not blogging much lately, I have been spinning, knitting, and taking pictures.
Remember the three ply I was in the process of making?  I combined two bobbins of light colored fiber with one bobbin of brighter-colored fiber, and this is what I got:

Oh wait, the cat’s in the way!  Let me try again.

I absolutely love [...]

Xocolatl

These are the Abby batts I’ve been spinning for Tour de Fleece.  More correctly, they were the Abby Batts I was spinning for Tour de Fleece.
Now they are yarn.

968 yards of yarn, to be precise, from four Abbybatts.

I’m very happy with it and a bit sad that they’re gone.  I’m thinking of spinning 2 oz. [...]

and the knit goes on…

Sorry.  Lame title, I know. 
I’ve recovered my love of the knit (but my mother’s second sock remains missing) by casting on for a new project – the Hedgerow Coat from IK Fall 2007. 
I decided to start with a sleeve since I didn’t feel like swatching and continued to knit way past the point where it became [...]

dizzy

Sometimes life can be pretty rough, and when it is, I spin.

70% targhee, 30% angora, a little over 500 yards of three ply from an 8 oz. roving ball I got at the January Spin-In.

4 oz. of merino/silk from River’s Edge Weaving Studio, also purchased at the January Spin-In.

This is some wool I dyed quite [...]

finishing things

One of the best things about spinning is that when your yarn is spun and the twist is set, it’s finished!  Yes, it will eventually become something else, but just creating a skein of yarn counts as finishing a project, at least in my book. 

This is the yarn that was on the bobbin I posted [...]

on the wheel and off

In between sporadic fits of sweater knitting, I’ve been doing a bit of spinning.

First off the wheel is a 70/30 wool/angora blend from a humongous batt I bought at SAFF in 2007.  I’m kicking myself for not taking a picture of the batt – it was blanket-size – 8 ounces!  I really love this navy [...]

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