Yarn Mistrys

This is the current state of the Tangled Yoke:

I’m loving this project. When reading through the instructions, it’s a little intimidating. But actually doing it and following it through, you can see that it all fits into place and how. I’ve made a few modifications, in term of the size that I’m [...]

Well, I couldn’t resist! I’ve been knitting, but it doesn’t feel like I have anything that is actually ‘mine’. Not sure that makes sense, but hey, it’s the way that I feel at the moment.

Anyway, one of the lovely ladies on the AY forum was selling some Kilcarra Donegal Tweed Aran and of [...]

The roving was from Spunky Eclectic and Diane sent it to me so that I would have some Corriedale to play with.

The idea was to ply it with some plain yarn, but I’m impatient and wanted to see what the VERY bright colours would look like plied together:

This is with the flash on:

And this is [...]

Another one finished!

This is for a friend of Ollie’s whose birthday is next week:

Yarn:Austermann Murano in 016 (White, Black, Grey) x 1 (it’s a 150g ball!)
Pattern: Yarn Harlot’s One Row Handspun Scarf
Needles: 6.5mm Knit Picks Options

This was such an easy knit. I knit this up in 2 days, and it’s long enough to still [...]

Some of you may remember that I finished the Annie Modesitt Silk Tank Corset

In actual fact, only the knitting part was finished. I still had to add buttons. Now I thought I’d found the exact ones that I wanted while out shopping with Kate, Diane and my sister, in London. I was [...]

This is what I got in the post yesterday afternoon, from HelloYarn:

This is 1lb of Romney in Brown:

225g each of Corriedale in Charcoal Grey, Grape, Brown & Black:

And as a treat to myself, some SWTC Soy Silk in Karaoke White, 225g:

My favourite is the Soy Silk, it’s so buttery soft and so squishy, I can’t [...]

The hand-spun that is!

Fibre: 100% Australian Merino
Weight: 100g exactly
Length: A mere 32 yards

I’m hoping as I get better, my yardage will improve too, but we shall see.

After all the suggestions, I have signed up for Spin-Off and have started doing some more reading.
I have a drop spindle too, so I might play with [...]

For the last couple of days, I’ve been playing with my new wheel.

Now I’m a stubborn old fool and decided that I didn’t need to read anything, do any research. I could just figure out what to do. On my own. Ha! Whatever!

I very nearly threw a massive fit [...]

I started this just before Christmas and this is the progress so far:

It’s a pretty easy knit. I’m using Cascade Ecological Wool, the same as used by Jared. I’m hoping to have this finished in the next couple of weeks and then I can tackle some of the other WIP’s languishing in my [...]

Here they are finally finished!

Yarn: Artesano Alpaca Inca Cloud in Cream x 1 & Schachenmayr Nomotta Alpaka in Brown x 1
Pattern: Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitt’s size small
Needles: 2mm Clover DPN’s & 2.75mm Susan Bates DPN’s

Once again, these were a fantastic knit and so easy to make. I’ll be making these again definitely. They’re [...]