I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with this project. I had intentions of knitting the garter portion with the entire first ball and starting on the edging with the second (and somewhat smaller) ball, but impatience won out. That and the fact that each row is very nearly…
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Well, we’re back to our usual non-holiday routines around here. We live quite the quiet, unexciting life. Work, dinner, watch TV (while I knit), and then go to bed to read and sleep. I’m not sure if we’re just really lame, or maybe that’s normal. It’s not like anyone wrote…
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As I sit here and write I’m wrapped in my thick Vernal Equinox shawl. The 80 degree temperatures of this past week are most definitely gone, and the rain and cold and those endless hazy gray clouds cover the sky.The lack of sunlight is making it difficult to take photos…
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Most of us know the story of Rumpelstiltskin, yes? With the maiden whose father tells the king she can spin gold from straw? Tonight we had a little family party at our house, and one of my nephews seemed fascinated by my spinning wheel and wanted to touch it. None of…
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Well, here it is. The finished yarn. 850ish yards of handspun beauty. This sets an entirely new record on yardage for me. The braid of fiber was only 4oz. No wonder it felt like I was never going to finish the plying – 850 yards! Good grief. I was still unsure…
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Last night I attempted to begin plying, but I just wasn’t feeling up for it after spending several hours trying to finish the singles. Tonight I’ve been plying for nearly 3 hours. As soon as I came home from work I was at my wheel making my yarn. And in…