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Not dead, just preoccupied

Started a pair of socks using Classic Elite Alpaca Sox. The yarn is wonderfully soft with great colours, but I hated knitting with it. Hated it! It has two very loosely plied strands that come apart at the slightest touch, it's thinner than regular sock yarn, and I

St. Distaff's Day

According to the Book Of Days (scroll down), January 7th is St Distaff's Day. There is no saint called Distaff, it was just the day people were expected to return to work, and work for the women included spinning. Robert Herrick wrote this poem about it: St. Distaff&

Spindle and Sock

In keeping with National Spin More Month, I've been working on some baby camel fibre. That lump is less than half of the original amount. I got it and my Kundert spindle at Maryland Sheep and Wool last year. Kundert spindles are turned as a complete unit, whorl

National Spin More Month (NaSpiMoMo)

Happy New Year! Margene has declared January 2008 to be National Spin More Month. There's a Ravelry group for NaSpiMoMo with over 50 members already. I'm planning to join a monthly spinning group this month, so there should be regular spindle spinning going on throughout the

Spinning FO: Wild Thing Merino

Finally finished a spinning project: Superwash merino from Crown Mountain Farms 182 yds, 3 oz 2 ply, wheel spun, sock weight ish This has been sitting on a bobbin for months, and I was tired of it. Plied it with way more twist than usual after reading Abby's

FO: Boudica socks

Did the last few rows today. Lunchtime knitting is replaced with lunchtime writing in November and I really wanted these done before NaNoWriMo starts. The fabric is very dense, and I love how the horizontal braids turned out. Yarn: Wooly Wonka superwash BFL sock yarn Pattern: MimKnits Boudica Socks Duration:

Boudica socks and a Turkish spindle

Started the first Boudica sock, ripped it out and restarted, having figured out the correct way to do the increases. I've never done a sock by starting with a flap and picking up stitches before. It was tempting to just rip it out and do a Sherman toe

Ding dong, the witch is (half) dead!

She's definitely poorly and not going to recover. The witch in question is my monster spinning project, 8oz of superwash merino to be spun as two ply sock yarn. Decided to put 3oz on each bobbin, which means I am just over half done now. It's

Snapshot - September 2007

Reading: Finished a fascinating book over the long weekend: Another day in the frontal lobe by Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon. The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine is my other current read. Finished Ill Wind, started (but not finished) Heat Stroke, and got most of the way through Chill Factor.

"Something amazing!"

Still spinning the first 4oz bobbin of Crown Mountain Farms superwash merino, it's been two weeks now. For light relief I spindle spun some of the ounce of baby camel I got at Maryland Sheep and Wool in a coffee shop with Irene. Two engineering students at the

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