Month: June 2010

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an ending and a beginning

I finished the pink shawl… FINALLY! Geez, it took me six months. I’m so happy that it is completed ’cause now I can gift it! :)

To celebrate it’s completion, I joined a knit-a-long … sort of. The SpinDoctor podcast is having a knit-a-long – Maine Morning Mitts using handspun. My ‘kinda-sorta-maybe-in-a-way-but-not-really’ participation is to make fingerless mitts with my handspun … but not use that pattern but more making it up as I go along.

But you can’t see ‘em until I’m done.

Really.

Don’t look at me like that.

Well…

Ok … here’s a peek. ;)

:D

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planning for tour de fleece 2010

I’ve been thinking about how I want to challenge myself during Tour de Fleece this year… maybe I’ll learn this or try that. But I realized that the day the tour begins, I will hopefully be purchasing the hand cards I’ve been wanting and some cashmere/tussah silk fiber.

I already have 2 ounces of it.

So, with hand cards, four ounces of luscious fiber and some dye, I might have a nice little Tour de Fleece project to work on, but you’ll have to wait and see what that is.

But don’t worry. You’ll be the first to know. :)

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fiber friday: rainbow pastel

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 ‘training’ and finally sat down at my wheel to finish my current project.

This was spun from The Painted Tiger’s ‘CMY Party Mix’.

I just wanted a basic barberpole yarn, which worked most of the way except for a couple of sections of green & orange that are more solid.

I call it ‘Rainbow Pastel’. I think I like it! :)