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Finished handspun shawl. This ended up being washed/blocked multiple times because unknown to me one of the black welsh skeins still had dirt in it, which distributed dirt throughout the shawl when initially washed. There’s still some light staining in parts of the marled yarn, but it’s much much better than before.
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Mammoth cowl WIP. I’m about halfway through this project now and am vaguely surprised that the ‘back’ (white) is looking much better than the ‘front’ (grey)
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Oof, doing the black lace section was a trial! My tension is clearly tighter than the pattern makers which cause the lace to be slightly firmer than the rest of the texture sections, which likely means it won’t block out as wide as the pattern image. To compensate I did 2 more repeats of the…
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WIP of the mammoth cowl. I’ve been getting irrationally annoyed that some of the random single stitches in the forest section have been coming out ‘large’ & ‘wonky’. I had to look back at wips of the dino cowl to reassure myself that this is fine/normal and will even out in blocking. The cool thing…
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Wow, this got large quickly! I’m up to the 2nd last segment & it’s looking so awesome that I’m considering this will be my handspun article entry for next years Royal (maybe).
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Aaaaand I’m at it again, double knitting yet another @HandHuntKnits cowl. This time it’s the mammoth cowl and I’m trying to be super neat about it as I want to enter it into the 2024 Royal Easter Show.
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Started up a shawl using the black welsh & white scandi handspun yarns from last year. Again, I’m having to teach myself a bunch of new knitting stitches.
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I recently made this adorable little doll scarf for someone in my ooak doll collectors community using some of my 2023 WOW christmas advent spins. This scarf used 5 different advent blends & has a total of 14 different fibre types! How cute is it! I am open to making more doll garments like this…
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Completed double knit fossil cowl. Pattern is the ‘Fossil Frenzy Cowl’ by HandHuntKnits that was adapted for double knitting technique. This cowl was a year in the making, with lots and lots of help from a member in my fibre community who helped work out colour control for the twisted rib & created a stretchy…
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Completed chunky lace shawl & a companion chunky hat using fisherman rib.