I want the perfect yarn, you know?
I knit a fair bit these days. Not all the time, and I’m certainly not a fast knitter, but I do do a fair amount of knitting.
One issue that keeps coming up is the fact that I never seem to have the right yarn for the right project. [...]
Yep, I’m at it again, and it’s going so well!
When I first started spinning up the Dorset wool, I was really fighting it too much. You’ve got to take a much gentler approach than I had realised. I sort of got this with the silk, but it’s making so much more sense with the roving [...]
And I even found a nice little surprise!
Today my fiancé said that he’d like a new book. So we found one he wanted to read, book one in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson in this case, called The Final Empire, and I called round and found it in a local book store. So [...]
Wellll… remember when I said I frogged that mohair? What I didn’t say is what that did to my asthma!
I’ve only been diagnosed asthmatic for about three years now, so I don’t always realise when I’m having an attack. My attacks are pretty mild most of the time, though when I was first diagnosed it [...]
It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while, but I hope to start to learn this nifty craft in the near future. I’d like to learn to spin my own yarn.
There are a few tools one needs to spin their own yarn, and in today’s post I am going to list a few [...]
Remember me talking about that yarn I bought to make up a nice jumper with? And that I didn’t like the colour so was going to swap it? Well I finally went back to the store yesterday and did just that!
I also realised that the needles suggested when working with this yarn were 3.5mm and [...]
This is another of those ‘I bought myself a frustrating dilemma’ posts, but this one is about the yarn I bought from that huge sale the other week.
I bought myself five 100g skiens of a dusty rose pink (though I’m considering going back and swapping this for a set of white that was there) merino [...]