Tour de Fleece: Finished! (updated: I won a prize!)
Last Sunday was the last day of the Tour de Fleece, and I managed to still get some more spinning…
Vintage charm (or rabbit hole)
If you’ve ever had a hobby, you’ll probably know about this phenomenon: there turns out to be an entire community…
Tour de Fleece: Subtle epilogue
Now what? I finished my Tour de Fleece project with almost a week to go… I was in need 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…
Reinventing my voice
I’ve been wanting to write this blog post for a while now. Until 2016, I was a practicing classical singer.…
Tour de Fleece: Halfway mark
We’re about halfway through the Tour de Fleece, and I’m enjoying it immensely. I’ve been spinning every night so far,…
Tour de Fleece: Ready to start!
Today it starts: the Tour de Fleece of 2018! Spinners around the world take out their wheels, polish their spindles,…
Mega project is done!
Last February I started spinning my largest spindle spinning project to date. I combined five braids and batts of fibre,…
56 or 90 mm?
Shortly after I bought my X-T20, I decided to sell my complete Canon set (5D2, 24-70 L, 70-200 Sigma), and…
Flippety-fade
Another handspun shawl is finished! I’m particularly happy with this one, mostly because of the nice combination of colours, gradients,…
Rebel
A few years ago, I went to a colour analysis together with some Ravelry friends. I turned out to be…
Why I sold my Canon 5D mark II and bought a Fujifilm X-T20 instead
When I started to be a bit more serious about my photography hobby, back in 2006, I sold my Samsung…
Mosaic magic
Today I finished knitting a lovely pattern: Sundry. It’s a shawl pattern that requires two (skeins of) yarn. It’s knit…
Spring gradient
A couple of years ago I participated in the Just Batty 2 Challenge. This challenge was part swap, part spinning.…
Startitis
Startitis. I’ve got a bad case of it. As I’m spinning my largest project to date (500 grams of rolags)…
Finger-up brioche mittens
It has been very cold in The Netherlands in the past week. The “Siberian Bear” came to visit: a cold…
Pretty writing
I like to try out new things and see if they fit me. In January I started a new hobby:…
Spinning pure bliss
There is something about working with undyed fibres and yarns that touches me. Especially (off)-white fibres have a special place…
Spinning on
I’ve been bitten by the spinning bug again… Lately, I’ve been spinning every day, and enjoying it immensely. After my…
Know better, do better
Something changed in me in the past year. Somehow, I stopped caring so much about stuff I think I “should”…
Zooming on
I started weaving squares on my Zoom Loom about a year ago, and recently I picked it up again to…
Hats!
Winter is here! In the last couple of years, winter was more like a prolonged autumn, but this year we…
Silky chic
About half a year ago I offered my friend MarvelKnits to weave a scarf for her. I had just finished…
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…
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