Handspun sock yarn!

This is about 60-75 yards of approximately fingering weight yarn that I spun on my spindles. I used my Golding, my Bossie, and my Spinsanity spindles. I plied the yarn by winding the cop onto the bobbins of my Lendrum lazy kate. I just put my finger on the top of the [...]

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The tail end of my spree

I finally got all the rest of the stuff I ordered this week. I got some delicious merino/alpaca/silk blend that drafts like butter. I got it from Squoosh. The colorway has blue, purple, and yellow. I figured I could stand a little bit of yellow since it would be in [...]

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Belated pics

Here are the pics I promised I’d post once I got fresh batteries in my camera.
Knucks…

It’s not in focus, because I used the self-timer function. But I think you get the idea.
Remember that perfect skein of yarn I spun up?

Ain’t it a beaut? I love how rounded a three-ply looks. It [...]

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Im in ur innernetz…orderin fybur.

Well, I had myself another spree.  Whee!  I ordered a bunch of stuff on Friday, and on Monday the packages started rolling in.
Check out this beautiful sock yarn.

You may be thinking to yourself, I don’t recognize that sock yarn.  Is it Regia, Opal, Trekking XXL? Why no, it’s not.  It’s my own handspun!  Whee!  i [...]

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Carding, and spinning, and…is this overkill?

I’ve mentioned in previous posts how much I love the simplicity of using spindles compared with a wheel.  The last few days I have been spinning some cigars that I carded.  I just sat in the evenings and carded cigars while watching videos, and then I pack my cigars in my knitting bag with my [...]

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WTF?

Okay, regarding the spinning I have been trying to do lately, all I can say is I must have multiple personalities or something.  The second batch of fingerless glove spinning I did looked terrible.  It looked like a complete and total beginner did it.  Thick spots, thin spots.  I tried knitting with it, and it [...]

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I think I did it, take two…or my cat is a bitch…or how are these people making energized singles?

Well, I had to spin another skein of handspun for my fingerless gloves. My cat Hannah loves patchouli. I have patchouli scented woolwash. I cannot use it because anything I wash in it, from a skein of yarn to a completed object will be chewed to shreds by her. She doesn’t [...]

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I think I did it!

I have been loving making fingerless gloves.  I think they’re more addictive than socks, in a way.  They use way less yarn, and they’re quicker to make.
Also, I have been wanting to spin some yarn with a specific project in mind.  I have lots of wee skeins lying about.   I doubt I have enough of [...]

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