Spinning bits and bobs
Back in April, right in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown, I got a package to cheer me up a…
Tag: yarn
Rainbow
The MirkwoodArts group organises SALs year round, but one of them is extra special: the one in the winter. It…
Green fields
A while ago, I visited my LYS, Cross & Woods. They have recently added the lovely Olann yarns to their…
Monochrome
In the last week of the Tour de Fleece, I started a second spinning project. I combined two braids of…
Tour de Fleece: Yeah, very thick indeed
Last Sunday I plied all my singles on my wheel. As I was plying, I was a bit suspicious already.…
Tour de Fleece: Singles wheel
After two weeks of spinning in the Tour de Fleece, I have finished spinning the singles for my project. Four…
Spinning on
I’ve been bitten by the spinning bug again… Lately, I’ve been spinning every day, and enjoying it immensely. After my…
Hats!
Winter is here! In the last couple of years, winter was more like a prolonged autumn, but this year we…
Thick and glitter
My previous spin was not as thick as had intended, so I tried again. This time I used SpinJones fibrein…
Thin or thick?
As I become a more experienced spinner, I notice that I spin thinner and thinner. My previous project turned out…
Holiday Wooliday
At the moment I’m (finally) on holiday. We’re staying in a small cottage in the middle of nowhere in the…
Tour de Fleece: Finished!
Yesterday was the final day of the Tour de Fleece. Time for a sprint! I was still spinning some lovely…
Dutch Knitting Days
Last week I visited the Dutch Knitting Days in Rijswijk. I still remember fondly the first installment of the event…
Rosepath on a rigid heddle loom
The humble rigid heddle loom offers many possibilities for those who want to do more than plain weave and colourplay.…
Like a whisper
In the past week I’ve been weaving with cobweb yarn. Yes, the really thin type, 1200 meters/100 grams. After learning…
Silky smooth
When I got married in 2013, I got a great present from Bart & Francis, the “Belgian Boys”: I was…
Anticipation
Oh dear, that rabbithole is quite steep… I’m talking about weaving, of course. After weaving my first shawl and wearing it…
Spin a dozen
The Giro de Fleece ended last Sunday, but I finally finished spinning my 200 grams of singles last Wednesday evening!…
Spun, plied, and skeined
My Deep Blue Sea spinning project is done! Well, almost done. I still have to give the skeins a bath.…
Sock Madness round 2
Today when I woke up, I had an email from the Sock Madness organizers: I’m in team Kweechah Knotweed! Kweechah…
Knit & Knot
Another intense day today: time for the first edition of the Knit & Knot knitting fair in Tilburg! The first knitting…
On my heels
The SlipStripeSpiral socks are coming along nicely. I’m not in a hurry, there’s plenty of time to finish them, so…
Mending
Amazingly, I have never learned darning yet. On the first Dutch Knitting Days there was a workshop about it, but…
Let the games begin!
Today is the first day of the annual Sock Madness (SM)! It’s already the 10th edition of this crazy sock…
Lime and grey and grey and lime
The Bahija wristlets are done! I made these for a friend with whom I was doing a swap. She provided…
Longing for colour
It may be spring(-like), but it’s still quite cold. Today it even snowed in the east of the Netherlands! Not…