Wow. 2009 snuck up on me. It’s so exciting to have a brand new year stretching before me. Although remembering to put /09 on my checks will take some work. And speaking of some work, here is the sum total of the New Year’s Dash. (“After,” minus the sock yarn from Gawain, which is already [...]
Archive for the ‘New Year’s Dash’ Category
’08 to ’09
Posted in Finished Project, New Year's Dash, The Wheel Itself, Yarn, tagged 2009, New Year, New Zealand wool on January 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Bubblegum and Bunnies
Posted in Drop Spindle, New Year's Dash, Yarn, tagged bubblegum, bunnies, New Year, New Zealand wool, roving, silk, Wensleydale on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
No, this is not a horror story involving Angora rabbits and sticky candy. This is the next-to-final project on my New Year’s Dash list. This is the Bunny Yarn.
So Near And Yet So Far
Posted in Drop Spindle, New Year's Dash, Project Progress, Yarn, tagged alpaca, batt, light worsted, merino, Rebecca, silk, thick and thin, Wensleydale on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ta-da! It’s done. All the work and excitement has transformed into twenty-three ounces of light-worsted/worsted yarn. According to my calculations, that means that only nine ounces of weight washed out with the lanolin. As far as I know, that’s a decent amount. I’ve read that Merino wool loses half of its weight when you wash [...]
Rebecca Yarn
Posted in Drop Spindle, New Year's Dash, Project Progress, Walking Wheel, Yarn, tagged New Year, New Zealand wool, Rebecca, silk, skeins on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have officially finished spinning all of the Rebecca wool into singles, and I’ve even started plying it! I have two nice skeins done already. I’m not sure how much they weigh, or how much yardage is in them. I’ll find out once they’re all done. And, once they’re all done I’ll just have the [...]
The Wonder of Plying
Posted in Drop Spindle, New Purchase, New Year's Dash, Walking Wheel, Yarn, tagged batt, Chinese knotting, gawain, library, Maggie Casey, New Year, New Zealand wool, Paradise Fibers, sock yarn, Start Spinning on December 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Once again I didn’t get this up last night. I have an excuse, though! I was busy plying this wonderful skein of sock yarn. Gawain is done! I absolutely love it when the seemingly endless thread you’ve been working on for the past who-knows-how-long comes together and makes yarn. It’s amazing. That makes three things [...]
