The Happy Skein

20 janvier 2006

Pi bonnet

Now that I have made that yarn, I was not going to let it sit in a basket. For my first project with my handspun I chose to make a hat for myself. I made up the pattern and I call it the Pi bonnet, because I started with circle using Elizabeth Zimmermann's...

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20 janvier 2006

Need yarn? Besoin de laine?

I have been busy making more yarn. I had one pound of the purple wool-mohair-alpaca fiber and I spun it all! Here are a few pictures to show you how it turned out. I love the colors! J'ai été occupée à faire plus de laine. J'avais 500g de fibre laine-mohair-alpaga...

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10 janvier 2006

Observations of a new spinner

Following are a few observations I have made since I started spinning about a month ago. They are in no particular order and won't be of any help to experienced spinners but might give aspiring spinners an idea of what they are about to get themselves...

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9 janvier 2006

Spinning - Filage

After making my first yarn, I haven't been able to resist very long to get my own spinning wheel. We got an Ashford Traditional, single drive from Copper Moose who also gave us two additional bobbins and one pound of fawn alpaca fiber (WARNING, that stuff...

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9 janvier 2006

Christmas Knitting - Tricot de Noël

OK, let's try and do some catch up here. First, here are a couple of pictures of things I've knitted as Christmas gifts. I've actually knitted more but I didn't take pictures of everything. OK, essayons de faire du rattrapage. Tout d'abord, voici quelques...

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6 janvier 2006

Books - Livres

Since I have a fair amount of books, I started an online catalog through the Library Thing . I haven't added all my books yet and I've only added knitting books so far. But it's a start and at least if you see a book there, then I have it. Of course,...

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5 janvier 2006

2005

Thank you all for your kind words about Mars. I still miss him a lot. And as I think about him, I also looked back at this past year. 2005 hasn't been a good year for our furry children: we started the year by losing Bob on January 1st and ended it by...

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