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		<title>rainbow yarn finished!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the rainbow yarn I&#8217;ve been spinning. I REALLY like how it came out. I need to spin more singles yarn (especially since plying is not my favorite part of spinning. ) Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>one reason why i love to spin yarn</title>
		<link>http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=1518</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished the cashmere/tussah silk handspun yarn! It was a challenge (not as easy as wool) but I made it work. (in progress photos can be found HERE) I am still considering using this in the stripe study shawl as the contrasting color. It took me a bit to find a way to spin this yarn that I wanted &#8211; which was more of a supported long draw than worsted. Here&#8217;s a very basic description of how I did<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=1518">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>fo: monet shawl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 01:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*tap tap tap* Is this thing on? Anybody out there? Yes, I&#8217;m still alive and breathing. I&#8217;m attempting to make some changes in my RL and unfortunately, blogging seems to be a casualty in this case. I am sad about that, but there&#8217;s only so much energy and time a person has. So blogging for the next little while will be a bit sporadic. But I&#8217;m knitting up a storm and my spinning wheel is even getting a little attention<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=1419">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>a little knitting therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been a little stressed and a little overwhelmed&#8230; so I decided that I needed a little comfort. That, of course, meant knitting. So I pulled out some handspun, wound it up and started knitting a very basic triangular shawl. No specific pattern but lots of mindless stockinette with lots of color. The color of the shawl reminds me of an impressionistic painting so I&#8217;m calling it my &#8216;Monet Shawl&#8217;. Here&#8217;s are some photos of fiber, yarn and just<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=1395">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I got a new camera!</title>
		<link>http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=1047</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a preowned Canon 10D Digital SLR from KEH.com. I really like it. My little Sony Cybershot P-72 serves me well but I was getting less and less happy about the minimal control I had over the settings for the pictures (and as a result, taking fewer photos) so I broke down and bought a &#8216;new&#8217; one. So, of course, I had to pull out some stash to take pictures. But this one is my fave, I think.]]></description>
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		<title>tour de fleece 2010 &#8211; finis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished my yarn on the last day of the tour! (It was very much a coincidence &#8217;cause I didn&#8217;t know when the end of tour was &#8211; I just wanted to spin!) I ended up with a very nice squishy yarn. Non-superwash merino. I am a little disappointed that the blue dye bled in the finishing wash, coloring the natural end of the of the yarn, but I&#8217;ll get over it. I suppose it was inevitable but still a<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=979">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>fiber friday: rainbow pastel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a small break from spinning for a few weeks but with the coming of Tour de Fleece and inspiration from The Hyper Monkey, I decided to start &#8216;training&#8217; and finally sat down at my wheel to finish my current project. This was spun from The Painted Tiger&#8217;s &#8216;CMY Party Mix&#8217;. I just wanted a basic barberpole yarn, which worked most of the way except for a couple of sections of green &#038; orange that are more solid. I<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=870">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>fiber friday: after the storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw a rainbow arching across the sky. It was after a rainstorm &#8211; the sun came out and as I was driving home, I looked to my left and there was a rainbow&#8230; almost a full rainbow. Inspired, I went home and started spinning this &#8211; 4 oz Superwash Merino dyed by The Painted Tiger. My goal was the split the top in half and spin so the colors matched up. Well&#8230; that didn&#8217;t work out as planned,<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=856">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>fiber friday: berry berry nice</title>
		<link>http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=852</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t bought a lot of spinning fiber this year &#8217;cause I currently have plenty of stash to keep me busy. Dyed by Spincerely, superwash Merino in the colorway &#8220;Stained Berry&#8221;. I call it &#8216;Berry Berry Nice&#8217;.]]></description>
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		<title>a different kind of rainbow</title>
		<link>http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=842</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saffronknits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, when I was experimenting with dyeing, I tried to dye some silk. But it didn&#8217;t really turn out the way I&#8217;d hoped. I&#8217;d read that silk doesn&#8217;t absorb water as quickly as wool so you need to soak it longer. So I did. The result was that the silk top seemed to disintegrate in the water. Not wanting to waste good fiber, I dyed it anyway, trying a technique that I came up with on the spot.<a class="more-link" href="http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=842">[Read more]</a>]]></description>
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