Category: Spinning
Fiber retreat
I went to the Valley Fiber Arts Guild and Anchorage Spinners and Weavers Guild fiber retreat this last weekend. I haven't been inspired to knit for a while - and I didn't do any knitting while I was there. But I did do some spinning, and I enjoyed that.… more »
Oh Hai!
I remembered I promised to write new posts. So this is a new post. Yay!
Last weekend I went to the Anchorage and Valley Fiber Arts retreat and had a good time and spent embarrassingly large amounts of money. There weren't any classes this time around,… more »
Fiber Processing Fun?
I've learned some important things about myself and fiber processing this past week.
Perhaps next time when I pull the alpaca blanket out of the plastic bag that it's been stored in for FSM knows how long, and it smells like fungus among us, to ju… more »
Orange Chocolate Laceweight
Here's something I spun up just in case the other yarn for the Holiday Swap didn't work out. The fiber is from moonlightbaker on etsy.com, 4.5 oz of 50% alpaca, 30% merino, 20%silk. It ended up being about 825 yards of laceweight single ply yarn. more »
Holiday Swap Yarn
11/26/08 | by tr3n1ty ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008 Last night I met with K and M to swap the yarn we had spun (see this post for details). I took pictures of the yarn that I swapped over to K to be knit. Now, if I was a smart person, I would have taken pictures of the other skeins of yarn. But I didn't.… more »
Test Sample Receives Approval
11/01/08 | by tr3n1ty | Categories: I'm getting crafty, He who shall not be named, Knitting, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, He who shall not be named, Knitting, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008 I twisted up a test sample of the yarn for M and showed it to HWSNBN. He said it was "pretty." * Yay!
It looks much like I imagined it would, so I'm pretty happy. I like it too, even though I selected the colors that were M's taste, not mine. I won't… more »
Almost done spinning
10/31/08 | by tr3n1ty | Categories: I'm getting crafty, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008 Well, my friend M will be happy to know that I'm almost done spinning the yarn for her project. (See this post for details) I'd post pics, but I don't want to spoil her surprise. This is more of a teaser post so she knows I'm almost done. Ha!
Unfortun… more »
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