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Month: October 2012

Stupid rain

October 2, 2012October 2, 2012 Categories: spinningTags: disappointment · fleece · spinning6 Comments

My birthday’s coming up, and my mum got me this:

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FO Friday (well, close enough): My first fleece-to-sweater project, seamed and blocking— 🤞it’ll be dry in time for our annual road trip to Atlanta & ‘the other Athens’ this weekend, ‘cause it’s going to be a cold one. I kind of love that alternating skeins created these accidental stripes, showing that some parts of this fleece had more grey than others. (The yarn spinning happened over the course of a year, so I alternated skeins to smooth over some differences in the grist.) (@tarasoraptor: This is the striping I mentioned today. Neat, huh?) . Profound thanks to the volunteers at the @mdsheepwoolfest fleece barn: they helped me choose the fleece that would become this sweater, and shared their knowledge again last year when I went fleece shopping. Both times they walked me through the characteristics of several fleeces, making sure I went home with something I could afford and would be happy with. It was an education just to watch them at work. 🙏 #woollove #handspunyarn #knittersofinstagram #handknit #handmade #slowfashion #fleecetosweater #MDSW

UFO Friday, weekend goal edition: finish up the hat & slippers so I can finally cast on for a prototype sweater that’s been rattling around in my head for almost a year. Hat is another Improvised Stripey Hat, this time in self-striping handspun from JulieSpins fibre. Slippers are a new design prototype based on the Last Minute Travel Slippers, in @jillmakesstuff Valkill. Got a road trip to ATL to see @boringpostcards & @cl512 next weekend, so these, too, are both last minute and for travel. Sweater is something I’ve been noodling around with for an age, in @jillmakesstuff Kingston. Hoping to hammer out the rest of the grading today so I can throw the numbers in some pattern text and get going. (I’ve found it’s easier for me to do at least the rough grading early and tweak it later, rather than finding I’ve fallen in love with a detail that is a total PITA to grade/doesn’t work in some sizes. I’ve also found that grading can stall me out like a propeller plane heading for the moon.) #knittinggoals #knitdesign #handspunyarn #knittersofinstagram #handknit #handmade #slowfashion

Behold the antidote to January, in yarn form. The niece’s stripey hat wasn’t bright enough for her taste, so she chose this fibre from JulieSpins and I spun it up and now Little G can have a hat that’s right for her. It’s like an explosion in a jelly bean factory, and I kind of love it, especially in the grim, chilly greyness of this January day. . #handspunyarn #handspinnersofinstagram #nofilter #thethingsidoforlove

Someone knows how to enjoy a warm, sunny day. . #catlife #catsofinstagram

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