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.…
Category: Spinning
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.…
Blue spinning wheel
No, it’s not made of metal. It’s the big spinning project that I’ve been working on for a while now.…
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…
Longing for colour
It may be spring(-like), but it’s still quite cold. Today it even snowed in the east of the Netherlands! Not…
Spin, spin, spin
I’ve finished spinning my purpink rolags (88 grams). In the last couple of days, my husband and I have been watching…
Frosty skein
The icy rainbow rolags that I have made recently were a joy to spin! I finished the singles last night.…
Petrol & Sport
I have been trying to spin some yarn that is thicker than fingering weight (after plying), but somehow, I tend…
Blending an icy gradient
Yesterday I have done a little experiment with fibre! I have recently bought some inspiring stuff from World of Wool,…
Woolly surprises
I am destashing some spindles, and I’ve just sold two of my MirkwoodArts spindles. They are so very pretty and…
Midwinter unicorn
Two weeks ago I made rolags from some Nunoco mini batts. I was quite in love with the icy colours,…
Functional art
The nice thing (or at least one of them) of spinning on spindles is that you get these beautiful, functional tools,…
Colour levels
I’ve been spinning some very pretty merino-silk by Passe-Partout. It has bits of pink, silver, white, blue… a lovely light…
Using a blending board
I have almost finished my latest spinning project (I only need to ply it still), so I’m thinking about what…
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