triskellian knits...

The blog is dead. Long live the blog!

2009-03-11T21:44:06Z

I've been getting increasingly irritated with Vox. Halfway through writing posts, I accidentally click on an image I've inserted, which navigates me away from the compose window and loses what I've written. It won't let me at the code for the blog...

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Finally some redleaf weaving action!

2009-03-10T19:57:42Z

Setting up the loom to weave this took all day on Saturday. Several hours in the morning for measuring the warp threads, several more hours for threading alternate warp threads through the holes on the heddle at a crafting date with Sadie, B and G...

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Making red things

2009-03-06T17:13:01Z

I am now declaring the spinning for the red leaf wrap to be completed! That's the red leaf singles for the weft on the left, and the two-ply merino for the warp on the right, finished just now. My next task is warping the loom, so I can take my ...

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Spinning things

2009-02-28T14:08:59Z

I'm now just over halfway through spinning the singles for the warp of the redleaf wrap - the picture is the first batch of singles and the fibre for the second batch, both about 100g; the yarn is very fine worsted, and from some guesses at its w...

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Sampling red leaf

2009-02-15T00:41:09Z

The colour match is better in the photo to the left - the woven piece is the same as the one on the loom in my previous post. The mini skein of yarn is one ply of burgundy merino and one of the red leaf fibre, about 2.5m/g, spun up for the second...

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Sampling

2009-02-14T17:50:01Z

(I need to mess around with the settings on my camera to try and get better reds - these colours are off too.) I've spent today spinning and then weaving a sample for the red leaf wrap. This is 12.5dpi, with the warp very fine two-ply burgundy m...

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Sekrit project number one (and an update on the red cardigan)

2009-02-14T13:16:12Z

The first sekrit project is what many partners of knitters will have been given today, the heart from Knitty. This was loads of fun to knit, and small enough that R didn't even notice that for a couple of evenings, every time he looked in my direc...

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Still life with socks

2009-02-12T22:37:56Z

While taking photos for the previous post, I spotted this cheerful view in the background. Left to right: Baudelaire, Clessidra, Elegant ribbed stockings, Push-me-pull-you, Triskell cable, Coriolis. I've got a pretty good wardrobe of handknitted ...

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Red leaf spinning

2009-02-12T22:31:09Z

Since writing the last entry, I have spun this: That's batch five of the red leaf fibre, and the last one for the time being. I'm now at about 1,000m, so I'm going to stop spinning the red leaf and start spinning some of this: Current plan is t...

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Metaphor of the week

2009-02-12T18:52:26Z

Knitting is like building a house. Even if you only have a rough idea of what the finished house will be like, you still have to make decisions about what kind of foundations to build before you can lay the first brick. And once you start laying b...

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