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.
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...