Top Down, Handspun Raglan Sweater

I’m off for another day trip to London in a few days. What set it off I’m not sure, but I had a sudden urge to finish my handspun sweater and wear it on the trip. I don’t know what was taking me so long to knit this, it’s only stocking stitch. But [...]

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Fibre samples, well you can’t have too many can you?

As you know, I like to do quite a bit of sampling of fibres. I find it helps a lot to determine what spinning methods give what results and what end use the resulting yarn would probably be best for.
The fibres I ordered all came last week and I ended up with three new [...]

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Colour changing, just like that!

The shetland I spun up went through a bit of a change this week. I did a couple of swatches to see how it knitted up and decided on some sort of lace patterned scarf (must be getting near that time of year for gifts!).
I love all the knitspot patterns, Anne Hanson is a [...]

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If you keep spinning, eventually you get yarn.

Who knew?
Quite often I spin and spin and spin and although the bobbin gets fuller, the yarn seems so far away and even though I love spinning, I occasionally wonder why I do.  A bit like the second sock syndrome I suppose.  With one bobbin done, you have to start all over again with the [...]

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