I have been very busy spinning again and one of my Twitter compatriots was confused when I said it made my arms ache. It was only after I explained that it wasn’t spinning of the horrible exercise variety but the kind you did to make yarn that we both fell about laughing. I’ve got a [...]
I had intended to finish my bag and have it ready for today but it remained stubbornly damp so I’m having to show you some other bits and bobs. I had a chat with my designer friend and she recommended a much more pleasing idea for a handle and is going to give me some [...]
I have had a moment to get my equilibrium back and a day to clean and tidy and the house a bit today. In between bouts of cleaning and tidying, I thought I’d try a bit of spinning practice and then some plying. The very green yarn had been something I’d started years ago and [...]
I was ever so pleased to have finished these socks. Some vanilla quickies that resided in my handbag for emergencies! When I was spinning in the gallery, I heard about a spinning group that doesn’t meet too far away and went along this morning. I hadn’t been before because I don’t like trying new things [...]
Six years ago, pao gave me a spinning lesson for my birthday and treated me to a wheel later in the year but it never really caught on for me as I found it difficult and couldn’t really remember what to do and was a little shy about going to a group etc. And I [...]
Most of you correctly mentioned spinning as part of yesterday’s activities but you missed out of what Tamyra was pictured with. To her right is a piece of weaving. I went on a course called from Fleece to Fabric where we spun in the morning and wove using a peg loom in the afternoon. I [...]
Since Wednesday last week, we’ve been sitting in our garden a lot. More so today as it is very very hot and cooler in the shade of the garage and the slight breeze. Of course, we did have other plans for today which involved hiring bikes and cycling round Bedgebury Pinetum but once we left [...]
I’ve been making a bit of progress with my Tour de Fleece challenge. This is the result of about 3 hours of spinning last weekend. I’ve been spinning up some of the sheep’s fleeces we washed last summer. There were more broken bits on the floor than what I’d managed to produce on the wheel. [...]
I often dribble over the photos of goodies obtained from Wingham Wool Work when Nic has been on Skip North so when I heard that they were going to be in Old Wives Lees I decided to pop along. I didn’t take my wheel as I was feeling a bit shy and we’d been in [...]
Alicia sent some lovely spinning goodies so pao decided it was time we ordered a wheel especially since I had been given a copy the book. Thank you ever so much, Alicia!! I was moving some PCs from one place to another on Friday when I discovered a big box in the car – my [...]