Just Batty Challenge: Finished!
After hours and hours of plying, I managed to finish my yarn for the Just Batty challenge today! I’m so,…
Category: Fibre crafts
Full disclosure
People sometimes ask me how many spindles I have. When I tell them, they may look either shocked or fascinated,…
Review: Capar Spindles – continued
Today I received my Capar Medium spindle. Its whorl is made of teak, and the shaft is maple. It weighs…
Colourway of the Month
Every month, Dutch Wool Diva has an image contest in her Ravelry group, to determine the custom colourway that she…
The Little Suitcase
At the moment, I store my spindles in a small cardboard suitcase with a Gorjuss theme. The Turkish spindles are…
Review: Capar Spindles – a new spindle artisan
Called Natural Knot Wood on Etsy, this new Canadian spindle maker has already stolen the hearts of some spinners, including…
Just Batty Challenge
The Jenkins group is a great place for spinning challenges. I thoroughly enjoyed the Swap Challenge no. 2, and now…
Spring Fling
I enjoy my spinning challenges a lot! It gives me the drive to spin towards a goal, and the support…
Review: Phil Powell Russian Spindles
Some time ago, I bought a Black Gaboon Ebony Russian spindle with a Moonstone gem from Phil Powell. The spindle…
Review: Mirkwood Arts Frodo
Last week I received a new spindle: a Frodo from Mirkwood Arts. The spindle maker, Tibor, lives in New Hampshire,…
Swap Challenge – finishing
After spinning both fibers for the Jenkins Swap Challenge nr. 2, I decided to first make a plying ball, to…
Dutch Knitting Days
This is already the fourth year that the Dutch Knitting Days take place. It started in Nieuwegein, then last year…
Cocoberry Cowl nr. 2
After knitting my prototype, I knew that I had to knit the Cocoberry Cowl at least one more time to…
Jenkins Swap Challenge nr. 2
I found out that participating in a challenge/SAL gives me extra inspiration, so I was eager to participate in the…
Tiny, tinier, tiniest…
There’s something incredibly precious and cute about tiny Turkish spindles. I have a couple, and they’re really good for spinning…
Storing spindles
I have a very nice collection of spindles, and needed something to put them into safely. Something like a case…
Suspended or supported? Or… both?
I’ve been spinning on the Turkish style of spindles for a while now, with a small detour trying my GhstWorks…
Cocoberry Cowl
With the yarn I made in the Chocolate & Strawberries Valentine Challenge, I started knitting a fitted cowl, designing on-the-go.…
The Spalted Beech – Walnut Family
Tonight, a third addition to the Spalted Beech – Walnut family arrived from Enid Ashcroft: a lightweight Tibetan spindle called…
Chocolate & Strawberries Valentine
In one of the Ravelry groups, Spindlemania, there is a challenge going on: the Chocolate and Strawberries Valentine challenge. The…
Spindle family
By now, I do have a lot of spindles. And I’m not keeping all of them. Some are very nice…
Lucky destashes
On Ravelry, if you’re lucky, you can find very nice stuff that people are destashing for whatever reason. Since getting…
Dreamy fiber
Just before Christmas, I found out that it was possible to order boxes with custom blended batts from the ladies…
Supported spinning
Until now I had concentrated most on spinning with dropspindles. I found out quite quickly that top whorl spindles are…
Enid Ashcroft
In Great Britain there lives a lady who makes amazing spindles: Enid Ashcroft. She offers both Turkish and supported spindles,…
Tiny problem
As I was spinning on my FWAussieSpindles Mini, I noticed a wobble when spinning it quickly. It was quite bad,…
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