Yarn Mistrys

I think there may be a few posts like this and I’m hoping that some of my lovely readers will be interested.

First up, I have an Ashford Drum Carder that I need to sell. I’ve only ever used it once to card some Alpaca Fleece. It’s a great tool, but at the moment, [...]

First of all apologies for being away for so long. Blogging took a back burner for a couple of reasons this last month.

The first is related to the second half of the title. Nope, I’m not engaged, but my younger sister has! I was completely overjoyed when she called to [...]

1. Wildcraft BFL Summer Heathlands, 2. Birthday Socks, 3. Oceanwind Knits Merino, 4. Spring Forward Socks

At the beginning of the week, I received some more Birthday goodies from Diane and they cheered me up endlessly. Working clockwise from the top right picture, you can see that I received a pair of lovely socks that [...]

Sometime at the end of last year, Adrian from Hello Yarn announced that she was opening up some more slots in her Fibre Club. I squeed and danced a little and decided that I would desperately love to be part of the club. Thankfully, that’s exactly what happened and because I couldn’t resist, [...]

Yesterday was my birthday. Now I know I’m not supposed to get so excited about a birthday, but I can’t help myself. It’s just one of those things! Here’s what we got up to.

There wasn’t really that much planned for the actual day, but I did start off the day [...]

You know, I think it might well be! Hooray!!

As you can see, I’ve finished a couple of things and started on a bigger project, let’s see if I can pull it through.

Starting from the right, I’ve cast on for a jumper from Inspired Cable Knits by Fiona Ellis. The pattern is [...]

...spinning.

I’d been madly spinning trying to get stuff finished for Christmas, so when I got back after the hoildays, I felt all spun out.. a bit like on the knitting front.  Everything just took a backseat.

But.. last week sometime, the spinning bug hit me again.  I was wandering through my craft room, trying [...]

.. to all my readers for the disruption in service.   The ISP is having some difficulties, with me specifically, and cut me off by accident.  All should be sorted now, fingers crossed.  But if you notice the blog has disappeared again, then please bear with me.  I am trying to sort it. [...]

and welcoming in Autumn.  Of course I’m talking about my latest wheel spinning expoits!

This is the Remembering Summer part… I have just washed and whacked the Apple Blossom Superwash BFL that I bought a while ago from Wildcraft

Fibre: Wildcraft Superwash BFL Top in Apple Blossom
Type: 3 ply fingering (16wpi)
Length: 236yds/216m
Weight: 100g

I actually plied this at [...]

Warning:  Picture heavy post!

I’m home!  I made it back from the lovely Pocono Mountains on Monday lunch and spent the rest of it in bed, catching up on the sleep I should’ve had on the plane.  My suitcase, on the other hand, didn’t quite make it home with me.. but that’s a different story.

SOAR was [...]