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Snow day means (wool) wash day by Lazy Daisy Knits on Dec 8, 2009 in spinning fleece washing Cool Wednesday snow day This morning, I decided to use my snow day (at 15 degrees F. and blowing snow - no way was I going outside!) to check out the RDF (Really Dirty Fleece!) that I've been cleaning bit by bit.I have six bags of cleaned and carded fleece. Each section is...
photos of things that aren’t yarn by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 29, 2009 in Uncategorized roving socks spinning sunday swing socks tahkli Since all I’ve photographed lately has been handspun, here are a few things that are not that. First, the Sunday Swing socks I’m knitting, toe-up, in Malabrigo Sock (colorway Caribeno). Now that I’m back on track (i never did find t...
The Finish Line by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 27, 2009 in Uncategorized spinning tour de fleece Well, the Tour de Fleece is officially over. I don’t consider myself to have “won”, since I didn’t achieve my goal of a mile of finished yarn, but I did “finish” as I managed to spin every day of the tour. HereR...
Cherry Cordial by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 26, 2009 in Uncategorized bfl spinning tour de fleece 285 yards of 3 ply BFL, heavy fingering or sport weight. I am really pleased with this one, and I think I’ve gotten a lot better at 3 ply spinning. It comes out so nice and round! I did have a lot of leftover singles for this one, which was a b...
4 hours, many yards by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 23, 2009 in Uncategorized spinning tour de fleece Not sure how many yards I spun today, but in approximately four hours, I got 1/3 of my new spinning project done. Since this was the official “challenge” day on the TDF and this stuff is thinner than I’ve ever wheelspun before, I...
1200 yards by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 20, 2009 in Uncategorized spinning tour de fleece WWM That’s aproximately how many yards of single, totalling up all three bobbins, that I had before I plied. After, I have 315 yards of nice, soft, sport to dk weight 3 ply.
Don’t blame me by Sheepish Little Blog on Jul 19, 2009 in Uncategorized hat Janelle spinning tour de fleece WWM …if Janelle gets heat stroke. I warned her that if I made her hat in the summer she’d wear it all the time and get horribly overheated, and I was right. At least she likes it, eh? Anyway, this is my own design, using handspun wool/possum...
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