A terrific "deadstock" yarn and notions resource... High end fashion industry overage, mostly from Italy. Some gorgeous options here, and fun buttons too!!
NEW! To me, anyway... from the FutureFiber channel on #YouTube. Soooo funny! And clever. Are you in the chicken nugget at 3am quadrant of summer? Find out here!... "An unhinged summer knitting review."
🐕🦺🐕🦺🐕🦺 Don't miss the wonderful tale <heh heh> of Wally, the rescued Tibetan mastiff, especially part 2/3rd way through when she removes Wally's pelt. Incredible!!
I wonder if it's the same for sheep, alpacas, llamas, goats, etc. What a great dog!
Yesterday I started knitting again after years of not knitting a single stitch. I forgot how much I love it. 😁🧶
All the stitches came back to me as soon as I picked the needles up again. I didn't have to look up how to do any of it, I guess it must be muscle memory. 👀 :knitting: :ablobcatknitsweats:
This is me spinning some tussah silk on my espinner. Isn't it gorgeous?! It reminds me of the picture of that glossy horse that looks like spun sugar. #spinning#handspinning#handmade#handcraft
After a couple of weeks break from posting a blog, I'm back.
This week's blog post is my roadtrip to the 45˚ Fibre Festival in Gore at the beginning of May. It features knitting and spinning and buying crafty things, and winning a raffle prize.
🧶 It's done! Yarn re-skeined on swift from ball I wound months ago, washed in Eucalan, dried thoroughly (it fluffed up, so nice!), re-wound just now into a ball.
@fibrearts@spinning I’m spinning during this set of nights. This is “Purple Teepee” by John Arbon. 50% merino and 50% Jacob. This was from their special last year and I’ve got 600g to spin up. #spinning#yarn#fibrearts#handspun
Join me for Romi Hill's #MKAL - "Way Leads On To Way!" Starts this coming Friday, April 26th.
🧶 Two color crescent shawl
🧶 Extremely well planned in all respects
🧶 Lots of #YouTube & #Ravelry posts
🧶 New techniques
🧶 Many participants
🧶 Scaled pattern pricing
🧶 Kits
🧶 Not too hard 😊
I’m looking for fediverse accounts to follow for inspiration in my new leisure interest: #knitting#socks. I’ve made two pairs so far and am looking for help and style variations, as well as tips to improve my technique.
@ellane Here are a whole bunch of hashtags to check out. Not all relevant to socks but all are fiber arts related. Welcome to this wild and woolly world!
@spinning This is my spinning for tonight. It’s an old bump from Hilltop Cloud and is much last (for now) odd 100g bump. My next spinning will be for a garment. #spinning#handspun#handmade
I filled up a bobbin for the first time! This one is some BFL I am pretty sure I bought when I still lived in TX. (So, old) woo! #handspinning#spinning
@spinning Last night’s 100g finished and plied. This is “Singer” from Hilltop Cloud. I can’t remember the blend but there was something a bit toothy in it.#spinning#fibre#handspun#handspinning
Very interesting - using S and Z spun singles for #weaving.
So many ideas to explore. #fibercraft has endless potential of going down rabbit holes and side rabbit holes of rabbit holes. And then side side holes ...
@fibrearts My spinning for tonight is glorious. It was a gift from my sister and is from Crafty Cat Fibre. It’s grey Corriedale so it’s going out with a dark undertone which I love. Especially because it’s coming out as a dark rainbow ❤️🌈 #spinning#fibrearts#fibrecrafts
@fiberart@spinning I appear to be spinning frog hair but I love how pretty this is coming out. The blend is 25% Faroe Island Wool, 13% Tussah Silk and 62% Shetland and it’s fascinating to spin. It’s very crisp and the Faroe Island Wool is new to me and has a really interesting handle. #spinning#yarn
Has it really been almost 4 months since our last husky yarn update‽ Much of that time has been quiet, but things are starting to spin up again, as it were!
In that time I've completed spinning all of Rio's heather gray fur onto a baseball (softball?) sized winding around the Turkish spindle. It's so pretty and precious I still haven't done anything more with it.
I've also completed e-spinning one 2-oz bobbin of yarn from each of the three tubs of fur, representing 5 separate huskies we've had over the years.
My goal has been to ply all three bobbins together to create a triple-ply yarn of all our huskies in one. But herein lies a problem! Each bobbin holds 2 oz of yarn: how to ply all 3 together without breaking it into 3 more separate strands? I want to keep the yarn as continuous as possible...