-
Finally cleared off my craft desk of full spindles, and holy heck! I am doomed to some serious plying hell because I filled up a lot of spindles…and this isn’t even all the spindles I own now…
-
Thought I’d share the very first spin I did on my new Daedalus wheel earlier this year. This fibre (called Tropical Paradise, which didn’t give me tropical vibes at all) I used as tribute to dial in my preferred settings for singles and plying. Thus the resulting yarn is very over spun, over plyed, and…
-
I’ve been making some fun sea bunnies from a pattern I recently picked up as an excuse to try out chenille yarn. I’m going to make as many sea bunnies as the yarn I have allows. One will be selected to continue to live its best life with me & the rest will require good…
-
Visited the Sydney Royal Easter Show today & Look!! The yarn (WOW blend Yzma’s New Groove) I entered into the class for wholly spun & plied on a hand spindle placed 3rd!! Bonus was my crochet handspun made shawl was selected for display. I am so ridiculously happy & proud since I’ve only been doing…
-
Decided to blend some grey BFL tops from my stash with the black Faroe Island sample tops from one of last years monthly fibre club. The difference in staple length is INSANE! The faroe is easily twice the length if not longer than the BFL. But it’s making such a lovely blended charcoal colour.
-
I lost bobbin chicken with about 250g of this fibre to go. However, I am massively impressed with the capacity of my daedalus’s bobbins. These are laceweight singles.
-
Before weaving ends in & during blocking. The pattern said to ‘block severely’, so I did; with great prejudice mind you because blocking took 2 hours & almost stole my sanity attempting to get the scalloped edge right because I was not helped by my stiff cast on.
-
Please enjoy some spinning with me on my new Daedalus Starling (aka ‘The Lamborghini’). Fibre is the WoW team blend Dragon’s Breath which is merino & mulberry silk.
-
My daedalus, aka birdie, arrived! Sadly, it somehow managed to ship missing the main tensioner so now I have to wait for that part to be shipped out to me…although, someone in my fibre community suggested a possible temporary solution I could try… Regardless, this machine is super quiet & I can’t wait to start…
-
I bought myself a rotating spindle stand from Kravelli on etsy to better store my spindle collection. Only my drop spindles don’t fit in it, so those will remain in the pebble filled jar.