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I organised my squishy mail from this week & now have to ban myself from buying roving until I’ve spun up more of my stash. My glass bowls from MingoAsho and the tulip spindle from TexasJeans also arrived, and I’m so looking forward to using them!
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Kettle has decided he wants to do more spinning. I’ve decided the banksia pod spindles max capacity is 100g. Once I get to the last 2-3 lengths of the roving ball the spindle starts behaving like an unwieldy pregnant cow and gets challenging to handle.
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Finished the clouds on the right side, only the left side left to go before detail stitching.
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My new gossamer support spindle, made by local Australian artisan The Spindle Shop, along with a reversible support bowl arrived. This spindle is absolutely lovely. It’s made from banksia, lacewood, and frogwood & weighs 16 grams. The support bowl has a shallow dimple and a deeper dimple & is made from camphor. This is my…
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Finished the lake foreground & skyline scrub sections, and have started on the clouds.
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Progress on the water. Have to go to the store again for more thread as ran out of more kit colours, which I’m super annoyed by.
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Ahoy me hearties! I completed this many years ago but only got it framed recently.
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Holy smokes, I spun up approximately 236yds (215m) of yarn. Now it needs to rest for a bit before I set the twist.
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My SIL taught me how to spin over the holidays. Now I need to make up a niddy noddy to get this yarn off and start all over again because god this is relaxing to do.
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Completed double tree frogs decoupage. Again a photo to show the effect from the way it’s meant to be viewed, and a video to show the full effect of the paper tole technique.