Saturday, July 11, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
The Dye Days of Summer
Here are some of the colors we got.
Embe wanted to over-dye a very bright sock yarn.
the one on the left could have been a bit orangier
but they both look lovely in the sun.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
2009 Tour de Fleece - Day 1
Rebecca will spin 9.4oz of 50/50 yak-merino blend from Sarah Anderson of Great Balls of Fiber and hopes to spin it the same as the 4oz 2008 Tour de Fleece batch. This should make enough for a very large circular or square shawl.

Thursday, July 02, 2009
Limbo Gloves
Project notes:
Yarn: Schoeller+Stahl Limbo Superwash, sport weight, 2 skeins, 275 yards total
Needle size: us #3
Pattern: from a class I took at Weaving Works where the instructions are basic and gauge is everything.
Beads: from stash
It was a very fun project and a great use of the Limbo yarn, which had perked in my stash since the mid 90's. And why not put the beaded picot cuff on gloves as well as socks?
decreasing two stitches per round 4 times,
3 knit rounds between decreases.
Shared with friends who also tried them on.
Multiple friends.
Multiple try-on times.
What’s wrong with this picture?
ack.
I am NOT frogging to catch up that stitch. I will stop the run with a little strand of yarn and weave in the two ends. feh. Almost perfect gloves. But it’s all good. In 50 years or so no one will remember, right?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
New Lazy Kate
while attending Black Sheep Gathering in June 2008.
We didn't travel that far this year but we will visit
OFFF on September 25th, 26th and 27th.
Labels: Fiber conferences, Tools
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Swallowtail Shawl with Kauni
We'll play catch-up while we put up the new stuff as well.
Aug 31/08 - I love the Swallowtail using variegated or space-dyed yarn, so I thought I’d try Kauni yarn. This Kauni is mostly bluey tourquoisey teal – very subtle color changes. I washed, dried and rearranged the colors with all the lightest together, medium together and dark teal together.
The size with extra repeats of the two ‘nupps’ charts is
29” deep by 57” wide.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Get ready, Get set
Tour de Fleece
July 4th through July 26th, 2009
currently on your wheel,
free up those bobbins
and contemplate your
Last year we both worked with luxury fibers, thinking that it would take quite some time to spin them and spin them well. Nope. Blasted right through and did a darn fine job of it, too, if I do say so myself. And I do.
left to right
Labels: Fun, SAL, Spinning, Tour de Fleece
Saturday, June 13, 2009
It's a matter of opinion but...
Stay patient.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
OFFF
Sept 27th, 2008
Canby, Oregon
from a lovely woman who's name we cannot remember.
but she did offer a little bit of it as a sample,
and took our names for the future.
Icelandic from DeMoss Mtn Meadow Ranch
seemed a sensible alternative,
Labels: Fiber conferences
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Tour de Fleece, Day 23 and The End
The final day of Le Tour de Fleece found us with a lovely pile of newly spun fiber, a total of 2,037 yards.
Left to right: 198 yard of 100% Cashmere by Peggy, 130 yards of 100% Pygora by Peggy, 624 yards of 50/50 Yak Merino by Peggy, 495 yards of 66.6/33.3 Mohair Silk by Rebecca, 590 yards of 50/50 Yak Merino by Rebecca
Peggy's pile:
Cashmere, Pygora, Yak Merino
I purposely over-spun and over-plied to get a decent twist remaining in the yarn after washing. You can see how the yarn relaxed in the bathwater (fourth photo) and how kinky it started out (third photo.)
I’m planning to dye the yarn and hopefully, 600+ yards will be enough for a pretty baby blanket.
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11:05 AM
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Labels: Peggy, Rebecca, Spinning, Tour de Fleece
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Tour de Fleece, Day 15
2 oz Cashmere
Projected Plan: Spin it 'Baby' weight for sweet little baby project, dyed appropriate color.
Rebecca's continuing Second Project: 4oz 50/50 Yak Merino spun at lace weight. My original plan was to three-ply it for socks but when I two ply it to test the weight as I'm spinning it's just so darn nice that all I can think of is how great it would be as a shawl so I've divided the last third in twos and am going to just fill up the two bobbins and 2-ply it. It'll be fine. And, as Barbara said yesterday while we were all out at Alice Lake's house for Dye Day, "You're going to make socks to put in stinky old shoes out of this????" (made face to go with sentiment). It did seem a crazy idea when put that way...
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11:04 AM
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Labels: Fiber, Fiber conferences, Peggy, Rebecca, Spinning, Tour de Fleece
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Tour de Fleece, Day 2
Apparently we have learned a lot about spinning in the last year ~
what we thought would take quite a lot of time...didn't.
Velda Mack (she of the Pinkity Pink Pink fiber Peggy used in her big Faroese Shawl) grabbed me on the way out the 2008 Blacksheep door, to say 'hi' and to show off this wonderful blend of 2/3 mohair and 1/3 silk ~ not exactly my style but after all, it WAS Velda, it was only $3.50/oz and it was a pretty color. $12.00 and 3.6 ounces later, I thought it was a fairly inexpensive way to say goodbye to Blacksheep.
Perhaps this will take awhile...
Labels: Fiber, Peggy, Rebecca, Spinning, Tour de Fleece
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Tour de Fleece
We signed up.It starts today and goes till the 27th. For details, go here.
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10:30 AM
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Labels: Fiber, Peggy, Rebecca, Spinning, Tour de Fleece
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Cables and Checks Vests
Classic Elite Provence
knit by Rebecca
Classic Elite Provence
Knit by Peggy
ONline Clip
Knit by Peggy
Pin is designed by Wilma Hoffman. Wilma is a genius at putting together odd and ends of Bakelite and creating beautiful pins and other jewelry.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Angora Silk Mohair
(available in many colors)
Spinner: Rebecca
Tool: My Betty Roberts double drive Russian Olive Wheel
Project Notes: This fiber was a gift from Evanne on St. Distaff Day 2008, spinning commenced on Feb. 2nd, spinner got distracted by shiny things and spinning was finally completed on June 15th, 2008.
Results: 7.10 oz, 597 yards, 12 wpi, 2-ply. Happy! Thanks Evanne!
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Peacock Handspun
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Snow Day AGAIN
It started about 3pm yesterday ~ snow, in April. It usually doesn't snow much in Seattle, maybe once or twice a year, and then not much coverage. This snow season seems to never end. It started early and stayed way past it's welcome. Last Saturday it was 80 degrees in some areas around Puget Sound. Today, one week later, snow. A 50 degree drop? What the...?
By 6:30 pm
Labels: Life
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Dye Day
We had another one this last Saturday with the Friday Knitters, plus a couple of Guest Knitters. Eight of us dyed quite a bit of fiber and yarn, some of it is shown below. The weather was cold but it didn't rain, what a bonus for Seattle Dyers in March especially since we were outside on EmBe's patio. We even got a little sun and some of us sat and knit in the patch of sunlight. Our potluck made for a much needed mid-day break, with an outrageous apple crisp for desert from Evanne and wonderful salads from everyone else. Yum.
Her yarn was periwinkle.
Results of the first dip:
jiggled to make it the real color,
slightly darker than the first dip.
in the same pot of Indigo.
It's lighter on the inside and should
be a lovely variegated when spun.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Rosy Fingered Dawn
Knitter: Rebecca
Pattern/Fiber: Rosie Fingered Dawn, a shawl kit from Blackberry Ridge; their lace weight wool in six colors.
Details: Knitting began 03-17-2001 and ended 05-06-2001 ~ it was my first massive lace project, inspired by Evelyn Clark who had just knit one for herself and of course I had to do it, too. This shawl was a challenge for me and if I knew then what I now know about lace knitting then I would have gone up a needle size or two for the lace edging. In fact, if I ever run out of things to knit, I may just rip out the current edging and knit on a new one, sideways, so it will stretch better in the blocking.
Blackberry Ridge lace weight wool is a treat to knit with and Hazel Carter writes a classic pattern. The resulting shawl is cozy and warm.
The shawl pin is the design of Beth Richman, who sells her lovely enamel work at street fairs here in the Northwest (Upper Left Coast) and at LaTienda.
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Labels: Knitting, Rebecca, Shawls, Vintage FO
