I spun it quite finely (for me anyway!) and have since plied it up. It's now hanging out on the porch in the wind to dry after a dousing in the bucket to set the twist. I can hardly wait to knit with it :)
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Mount Rowland Singles
During these lovely days off work I have finished spinning up the delicious Mount Rowland fibre from Tasmanian House of Fibre. It was such blissful fibre to work with!
I spun it quite finely (for me anyway!) and have since plied it up. It's now hanging out on the porch in the wind to dry after a dousing in the bucket to set the twist. I can hardly wait to knit with it :)
I spun it quite finely (for me anyway!) and have since plied it up. It's now hanging out on the porch in the wind to dry after a dousing in the bucket to set the twist. I can hardly wait to knit with it :)
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Have Yourself a Mini Mitten Christmas
Whiskers on kittens and... mini festive mittens, yes there's just something about them, isn't there?
So teensy! So cute!
I only knit the one item for Christmas gifting this year; this wee pair of mittens.
They are so adorable though, I may have to knit an entire battalion of them for next festive season. Battalion? Flock? Drift? What would be the collective noun for mittens I wonder..?
Hoping you all enjoyed a hearty, healthy, happy and contented festive time with your loved ones.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Too Funny, Too Forgetful!
Oh dear...
After my last post I went to Ravely to add the rainbow yarn to my 'stash' page - and what should I find...?
Yes, there it is! I had already entered it in to Ravely and named it something entirely different! Hahaha! Just shows what this industry has done to my brain - I'm so scatter brained nowadays!
After my last post I went to Ravely to add the rainbow yarn to my 'stash' page - and what should I find...?
Yes, there it is! I had already entered it in to Ravely and named it something entirely different! Hahaha! Just shows what this industry has done to my brain - I'm so scatter brained nowadays!
Frictal Fractal
I discovered I had a wee amount of rainbow wool on an abandoned bobbin from literally years ago. This is the same rainbow tops from which I spun the white rainbow and the intense rainbow, but eons before spinning those two I had begun spinning a singles yarn changing colours through the rainbow.
It is only a weeny wee skein, made by navajo-ing the very thin singles.
For some reason it makes me think of fractals. It makes me think of refraction of light through one of those pyramid shaped prisms.
Goodness knows what I will do with it as it is only 30m of fingering weight (light fingering at that!) but I'm sure I will find something :)
It is only a weeny wee skein, made by navajo-ing the very thin singles.
For some reason it makes me think of fractals. It makes me think of refraction of light through one of those pyramid shaped prisms.
Goodness knows what I will do with it as it is only 30m of fingering weight (light fingering at that!) but I'm sure I will find something :)
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Festive knits
I am only knitting one Christmas gift this year - contrary to my original plans. A few weeks ago I placed an order for some yarn, planning a knit for EVERYONE! But then realised that therein lie beasties and monsters of stressed anxious times and unfinished gifts, being that it is already part way through December!
So instead I am leaving the yarn for next year's gifts, which of course I wil commence knitting EARLY in 2011, or even straight after Chrissie!
But I might still knit a few little Christmas goodies... just a few... and very little...
So instead I am leaving the yarn for next year's gifts, which of course I wil commence knitting EARLY in 2011, or even straight after Chrissie!
But I might still knit a few little Christmas goodies... just a few... and very little...
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Peaceful Happy Tasmanian Fibre
To appease myself after returning to the Pilbara from our glorious time away in Tasmania I decided a little parcel of Tassie fluff might be just the ticket. I wanted Tasmanian fluff not just fluff sent from a store in Tasmania and I found Tasmanian House of Fibre to have all sorts of goodies!
It was so lovely to come home from work one day with a squooshy parcel waiting for me!
(apologies for blue-rinse photo effect!)
I purchased some undyed fibre to dye up myself here, but time has not been as free and easy as I always optimistically think it will be so I haven't played with that yet. The Mount Roland dyed fibre is absolutely luscious - I would say the softest most delicious fibre I've played with yet!
I wanted a stress-free spin with the Mount Roland as life has been very full on lately. But I just couldn't spin so I was happy with it. Too thick, too uneven, little coils and I couldn't decided what personality the yarn had.
Last night I decided on a nice thin yarn that I will navajo in to around a fingering weight. It must have been the right choice because it is going marvellously :)
Unfortunately my lovely shweetie has to head back south and have some time off work for a while and, as he'll be taking the car, Arthur (my spinning wheel) must go with him as he is too cumbersome and fragile for the plane - WOE! I must enjoy the spinning while I can!
p.s I'm sure I took a photo of my single spun Mount Roland on the bobbin but now I can't find it! So you will have to stay tuned for that shot et to come!
It was so lovely to come home from work one day with a squooshy parcel waiting for me!
(apologies for blue-rinse photo effect!)
I purchased some undyed fibre to dye up myself here, but time has not been as free and easy as I always optimistically think it will be so I haven't played with that yet. The Mount Roland dyed fibre is absolutely luscious - I would say the softest most delicious fibre I've played with yet!
I wanted a stress-free spin with the Mount Roland as life has been very full on lately. But I just couldn't spin so I was happy with it. Too thick, too uneven, little coils and I couldn't decided what personality the yarn had.
Last night I decided on a nice thin yarn that I will navajo in to around a fingering weight. It must have been the right choice because it is going marvellously :)
Unfortunately my lovely shweetie has to head back south and have some time off work for a while and, as he'll be taking the car, Arthur (my spinning wheel) must go with him as he is too cumbersome and fragile for the plane - WOE! I must enjoy the spinning while I can!
p.s I'm sure I took a photo of my single spun Mount Roland on the bobbin but now I can't find it! So you will have to stay tuned for that shot et to come!
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Tree Nut
I have always been a tree nut; a tree climbing, tree hugging tree nut!
Although a lot of our block is tea tree bush and other woodsy wilderness there are still some corkers amongst our acres - big delicious river red gums, amazing gnarled banksias and some of the most amazing formations I have ever seen.
Two views of the same incredible tree mass by a hook in the river. You can see some of the flotsam in the branches from very high waters.
Are they worshipping the tree in the centre? Is it nature's jungle-gym?
Although a lot of our block is tea tree bush and other woodsy wilderness there are still some corkers amongst our acres - big delicious river red gums, amazing gnarled banksias and some of the most amazing formations I have ever seen.
Two views of the same incredible tree mass by a hook in the river. You can see some of the flotsam in the branches from very high waters.
Are they worshipping the tree in the centre? Is it nature's jungle-gym?
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
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