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I sold my wheel

Posted in knitting, socks, spindles, spinning, wheel on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have someone coming up next weekend to buy my wheel.  That’ll free up some space in my apartment, especially since I moved to a smaller apartment.
I’m not sure where my camera is packed, so I can’t take any pictures of my new spindles (two new Bosworth’s) and the socks I finished.
Hopefully, I find my [...]

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A spindle as cute as a bug’s ear and finally I got batteries for my camera!

Posted in knitting, socks, spindles, spinning, wheel on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I haven’t even sold my wheel yet, but I’m adding to my spindle collection.  Check this out.  It’s a Jenkin’s Turkish Delight that I bought from Spunky Eclectic.

You may be wondering why I bought a turkish spindle, especially since I my other Jenkin’s spindle is listed for sale.  Well, I am intrigued by turkish spindles.  [...]

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I’m gonna do it

Posted in spindles, spinning, wheel on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In my previous post, I talked about possibly selling my Lendrum.  I’m gonna do it.  I just need to clean up my place a bit first, because it’s possible I’ll be inundated with requests to look at it within minutes of the posting going live, and I don’t want to be caught with my proverbial [...]

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Thinking, mulling, considering…

Posted in spindles, spinning, wheel on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If any of my fiber blog readers read my other blog, you’ll know that I’m a luddite.  I love simplifying, paring down, being frugal, making do with less, etc.  I don’t really care for technology, because technology uses up valuable resources, and the more advanced a technology becomes, the more money it costs.  And you [...]

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Like the tortoise

Posted in dyeing, fiber prep, knitting, spinning, wheel on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I haven’t been knitting as much because I ended up with a new toy (an ocarina) which absorbed me for a while, and then I fell ill.  When I’m ill I’m not good for anything involving brain power or energy, like knitting or reading.  I just sit and watch videos (I don’t have a [...]

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Handspun sock yarn!

Posted in spindles, spinning, wheel on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

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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