Story Time
The latest swap in the Dutch Karma Swap group is called Story Time. It’s a long-running swap (three months) in…
Category: Spinning
Tour de Fleece: Finished!
Yesterday was the final day of the Tour de Fleece. Time for a sprint! I was still spinning some lovely…
Tour de Fleece
It’s that time of the year again: the Tour de Fleece has started last week! This annual event takes place…
Spin Fest at Cross & Woods
Last summer my LYS, Cross & Woods, threw a spinning party in honour of the person who created their beautiful…
It really is purple!
… even though my camera can’t capture it properly! I’ve been spinning on and off on my AdrianArt merino project…
Happy New Year!
I know that it’s already January 4th, but here in The Netherlands you are allowed to give your well-wishes for…
Colourful December
My multiscarf is finished! I used up almost all the ReSkein yarn (I had a bit more of the silver)…
Spin Cycle October: Malcolm Fielding
Every month the Yarn Therapy Zone on Ravelry organizes a spin along that celebrates a spindle maker. In October it…
Sheep
There are so many sheep in England! Well, in the area where we went on holiday, at least. They were…
Tour de Fleece – it’s over!
Today is the last day of the Tour de Fleece. Over the past three weeks I have been spinning quite…
Tour de Fleece week 1
It has been a busy spinning week! And of course I had to work to (so inconvenient…). In the first…
Review: Mingo & Asho Glasscapes
Last year a new pair of spindle makers entered the market for supported spindles: Mingo and Asho, two artists living in California.…
Fête de Fleece
Yesterday I went to the Tour de Fleece kickoff party at my LYS Cross & Woods (formally known as Woool).…
Tour de Fleece
Today is the first day of the Tour de Fleece! Spinners around the world spin along with the cyclists in…
Subtle spinning
At the moment I’m spinning a very nice bit of Nunoco roving. It’s in their Cobweb colourway. I actually spun…
Spin a dozen
The Giro de Fleece ended last Sunday, but I finally finished spinning my 200 grams of singles last Wednesday evening!…
Contrast
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Giro de Fleece
Today the Giro d’Italia is starting here in The Netherlands, in Apeldoorn. Like the Tour de France, this is a…
Dutch Knitting Days
Last Friday and Saturday the Dutch Knitting Days were taking place in Rijswijk, which is really close to where I…
Spun, plied, and skeined
My Deep Blue Sea spinning project is done! Well, almost done. I still have to give the skeins a bath.…
Keep on spinning…
My current spinning project is quite a large one: I’m spinning about 415 grams of grey-blue rolags. The project has…
Knit & Knot
Another intense day today: time for the first edition of the Knit & Knot knitting fair in Tilburg! The first knitting…
Sinterklaas in spring
Huh? Sinterklaas in spring? That’s right, today I’m celebrating Sinterklaas with a couple of knitting friends! Officially Sinterklaas should be…
Stormy sea
Even though the paper I’m using is quite terrible, I took it out again today to make a painting. I…
Deep blue sea
I was almost out of rolags! I still had about 50 grams of dark blue rolags, but nothing substantial. So…
Oktober rolags are done
Those nice, autumny colours of the Oktober rolags may not be in the Cool Summer palette, but I sure love…
Moonbird
It arrived! It arrived! My moonbird spindle is here! This gorgous Midi Pu Yok from Malcolm Fielding came to live with…