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Bye bye goth space invaders

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:18:47 +0000

They were lovely, but the purple was too dark for the black to show up clearly :-( They have now visited the frog pond. The yarn will probably be reborn in another stranded project, with straight lines so they show up better. The pattern is stil...

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Spinning Wisteria

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:17:47 +0000

I've spun five-eights of the Wisteria fibre (from Freyalyn on Etsy). Four of those eighths (ie 100g) are wheelspun with a long draw (my first attempt at same), and then wheel-plied into lovely soft squooshy aran-ish three-ply, about 100m thereof ...

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Socks!

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:59:34 +0000

These are the (finally!) finished Shadow and Ghost socks (from the Cheshire cat pattern at Purlescence). They're a late birthday present for female-friend-R (in honour of her grey-Ghost-cat and her black-Shadow-cat), who seemed pleased with the...

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Spinning and reading

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:10:20 +0000

This is the result of the Caribbean fibre I bought from Freyalyn's Etsy shop :-) It's two-ply, about 324m and about 200g. Unfortunately (for me), I chose this to make for Katie, who gave me my wheel - I checked that she knits when she gave me i...

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New sock books

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:11:29 +0000

New Pathways for Sock Knitters may actually be functional as well as pretty. I'm not sure how I ended up with so many sock books, but this is my fourth, and I think I like it better than the Vogue Ultimate Sock Book. It certainly does what I was ...

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Spinning samples and dangerous shopping habits

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:27:18 +0000

I've started making sample singles of fibre to help me plan what to do with it. The top row of cards in the photo are all fibre from Freyalyn on Etsy. The first card is a bit of superwash merino that she sent as a sample - it spins up nicely but ...

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Peacock and purple

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:38:37 +0000

This looks much less peacocky now it's finished than it did in progress, but the name remains anyway. The weird thing about it is that it often manages to look like blue-shading-to-purple, when it's actually blue and green, and neither shade of b...

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Lace-up gloves

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:15:32 +0000

These are Leigh Radford's lace up gloves from Alterknits. They're a belated Christmas present for female-friend-R, to stop her complaining about how nice mine are. In what might be taken as role reversal, mine are bright-dark-red Manos (or possib...

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In praise of the internet

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:10:59 +0000

A couple of days ago, I posted in the beginning spinners forum on Ravelry asking where UK spinners go to get exciting hand-dyed fibre. The replies introduced me to enough places to keep me going for a while, including someone reccing the Etsy stor...

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Purples and pinks and peacocks

nobody@vox.com(triskellian) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:55:44 +0000

If there's a way to alter the order of the photos to the left, I can't work out what it is :-( So, in slightly bizarre order, my latest adventures in fibre: (top picture) this is my first attempt at carding, using all the stray bits of fibre ...

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