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Patchwork Painting

Tingle Tangle Singles

A Sad Day

A Rose in the Sun. One of my spinning friends, Robina, died unexpectedly today. I am very sad and distressed for her family and close friends. I spent quite some time talking to…

KrisKringle

My Spinners and Handweavers Guild met for a Christmas lunch today. Pot Luck style. I cooked a potato fritatta using a recipe from Stephanie Alexanders Cooks Companion which I…

Winner!

Handspun Article – First! Handspun Skein – First! PLUS Best in Class (fancywork) for Kirishawl. I am totally chuffed. Riscy took me out for dinner tonight to celebrate! The firsts…

Why it is wonderful to belong to a guild!

The Latrobe Valley Spinners and Handweavers Guild has 12 members. I spend my Wednesday lunch hours with them and it is heaps of fun 🙂 I’m the youngest by a long way, which is…

Little Gem

The silk strand is actually a silk merino blend I spun up a few months ago. The colours were brilliant but muddied up when spun. Also the silk flew all over the place when handled…

I've Been Spinning

A Computer Holiday

I’ve just had a nice little computer holiday 🙂 But I’ve been busy doing other things like painting (nothing good to show here though), spinning and knitting. This is some of the…

The Wool Show

Before I launch into the goodies I bought at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, I want to show you what came off my wheel tonight. Just as I arrived at the show a very…

On the Wheel

Some Spinning Content 🙂

Yarn, Journal and a Knitting Decision

I was spinning and plying the second skein of this yarn whist trying to think of the Best Advice I Ever Got…. for the journal project conceived by Penelope Dullaghan… I received…

House of Yarn

I’m keen to see how these will look in as a two ply yarn. I’ve recently been spinning lots of beautifully prepared superfine merino tops which has been wonderful. But there is…

Back in the Saddle Again

photo screen print of the dredger: veiw of the underside I screen printed this image of the Dredger mainly to see just how much detail I could get using the photo screen print…

Green Merino Handspun Yarn

Thought I’d show you a recent spinning effort. It turned out way prettier than I thought it would. I don’t think it’ll knit up as yummy as it looks in the skein. Actually, that’s…

dyeing Merino Wool - Lessons Learned

Last night I tried my hand at dyeing merino top in the microwave using Landscaped dyes. The colours came out great, but my treatment of the wool after dyeing caused some felting.…

Lookee lookee!!!!

Before I launch into photos of the very exciting delivery I got today from TreeTops Colour I want to tell you that using my sewing machine is not as fool proof as I imagined. I…

Engineering excellence

I got my new wheel on Wednesday. I was so excited to get it out of the box and assembled and set up I completely forgot I had a committee meeting that nightand didn’t even…

Quick Post

The weekend went well. Much wine and cheese was eaten. I have probably gained 5kg must go back on diet posthaste. Now onto the exciting news. I have won an Ebay auction for an…

More knitting and spinning

I’ve got to finish the bag I started on Sunday so I can stop feeling guilty for spinning wool instead LOL. Check out today’s accomplishment This is the first skein of yarn I have…

Spinning Corner

I spashed out and brought some fancy storage boxes from Freedom Funiture for my spinning supplies, wool etc. I have also found that they are good ‘tables for my flick carder,…

More Spinning

I’ve been busy spinning and dyeing this week. I’ve managed to ply every bit of yarn I’ve spun so far and I’m now faced with the daunting task of KNITTING something. I’ve stocked…

Adventures with Dye

I don’t have a clue what I’m doing, but I won’t let it stop me from trying anyway: The Raw Product The fleece after washing. I forgot to pick the clumps apart in my excitement.…

Drum Roll Please

I present here my first ever bona fide hand spun yarn. My first hand spun yarn! Dark brown Corridale from Jumbuck Wools in Bairnsdale and dyed Ashford Corridale from Benambra Blue…

Back to the Spinning Wheel

I’m tired tonight, going to bed early… but not before I post some pics of the progress I’m making with my spinning. This is my first spool. I had a minor mishap caused by me…

The Journey

I almost didn’t blog tonight because as a quilter I’m doing a hell of a lot of spinning and there are only so many photos of a slowly growing spool of yarn that I can post here…

First Spinning Lesson

Yay! I just came back from my spinning lesson with Bev. She showed me how to deal with fleece straight off the sheeps back, I learnt to comb the locks and then I got to spin 🙂 As…

Today's purchase

I had to go to East Gippsland for work today and noticed a shop on the outskirts of Bairnsdale called Jumbuk Wools. There were spinning wheels in the window, I bought some carded…