Yesterday afternoon I decided to throw caution to the wind, and started washing up a Huacaya Alpaca fleece that arrived a couple of weeks ago. It’s my first time washing a fleece since my first very failed attempt right before moving to L.A. almost 3 years ago now. (I felted a small fleece while washing [...]
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
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Posted in Knitting, Madil's Shawl on Jan 27th, 2009
It’s amazing what a difference a day or two can make. In preparation for my loom arriving I took all of the yarns that had been wound into center pull balls, and promptly cast on, knitted a bit, and then pulled out over the years, re-skeined them, washed them, and hung them all to dry. [...]
{sweet} I seem to have lost my knitting mojo after the holidays, and I have yet to find it again. I see it flitting around a corner, but as I round that corner it’s gone. I was able to capture it long enough to knit a hat, but somehow it got away. I know that [...]
white and woolly
Posted in Spinning on Jan 19th, 2009
Last night, just after midnight I finished carding up the 4 ounces of Cormo fleece that I received from Steven for the Holidays. I took an unexpectedly early photo of some of the woolly rolags in the warm morning light. {slightly rustic} So far I’ve really enjoyed the time that I’ve taken with this little [...]
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