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…
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Journal · page 46
More notes, discoveries and moments from the journal.
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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.…
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The Things You See
I had to go to Buchan today (yes it rhymes with the swear word and I get a jeuvenile pleasure from saying it). On the way there is a town with this in the main street: Monument on…
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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…
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Love Actually
We just watched Love Actually (again). I really like that film :-). Unfortunately that means I didn’t have time to completely finish my pear quilt… but I’ll show you the almost…
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Saturday, Saturday!!!
I’ve been quilting all afternoon. Here is a sneak preview, I hope to have the grand ‘reveal’ tomorrow night. Sneak peek at a new quilt project Yeah, Yeah, I know… those are pears…
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Meme
Deborah tagged me with this Meme, I too didn’t know what that meant. Total Amount of Music on your computer? We filled our 40G ipod, I’m told that’s a lot of music. The last CD…
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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…
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Smoked Out
I got back to my sewing machine. It seems like forever (well it has been over a week!) I previously posted that I love to draw pears… when I can’t think of anything to draw (most…
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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…
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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…
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Drawing - harder than I want
Things are getting back to normal with my blog (just the About Me page to set up), and also in my normal life (the tennis is now over; Lleyton lost the final, *sniff*). Yesterday…
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