Sky blue cardi
In early 2019, I blended some super soft light blue fibre from Underdutchskies and Nunoco with a sprinkling of sparkly…
Tag: handspinning
Summer cardi
Remember that summer spinning project that I finished a while ago? Well, I decided to cast on a knitting project…
Summer spin
Almost a year ago, I prepared the rolags for a spinning project. The fibre was from the Hedgehog Fibres Fibre…
Simple and straightforward
After knitting my Klimop shawl, I was feeling like knitting another project, but simple tv knitting this time. So I…
Klimop
It has been a while since my last crafting post. But of course I have been working on some nice…
Quarter time
My advent calendar is a rather large spinning project. It consists of 24 fibre samples of ~20 grams each, so…
WIP update
With all the singing and cat related posts lately, you might be wondering if I’m crafting at all. The answer,…
Spinning bits and bobs
Back in April, right in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown, I got a package to cheer me up a…
Greenery
Do you know World of Wool? It’s a UK-based free shop with all kinds of beautiful fibre and wool. It…
Colour taming
Last weekend I finished spinning another project. This one was started in the last week of the Tour de Fleece,…
Tour de Fleece: week 1
The Tour de Fleece has been going on for a week now, so it’s time for an update! I have…
Finish to start
Tomorrow it starts: the Tour de Fleece 2019. This yearly event occurs during the Tour de France, and thousands of…
Pavane
I’m sure you have noticed that there haven’t been many fibre-related posts, lately. I am still spinning my large purple…
Mithril shawl
Spring is in full bloom now. The pink blossoms are on the ground and the trees have deployed their leaves.…
Knitting a rainbow
The rainbow theme continues! It may have something to do with the fact that during the past week and a…
The skyest of blues
The MirkwoodArts group has another spin-a-long ungoing: the All*Stars SAL. The theme is stars, and every participant chooses a favourite…
Rainbow
The MirkwoodArts group organises SALs year round, but one of them is extra special: the one in the winter. It…
MirkwoodArts Thriathlon: Hobbits (part 3)
I decided to do one final spinning project for the Hobbits stage of the MirkwoodArts Thriathlon. Just like in the…
MirkwoodArts Thriathlon: Hobbits (part 2)
Last week I started a new spinning project in the MirkwoodArts Thriathlon. After finishing my hobbit-green project, I felt like…
Japanese ingeniousness
Two days ago, I finally finished my latest knitting project: the Hosukai Cowl by Hiroku Fukatsu. Hasukai means diagonal in…
Tour de Fleece: Finished! (updated: I won a prize!)
Last Sunday was the last day of the Tour de Fleece, and I managed to still get some more spinning…
Tour de Fleece: Subtle epilogue
Now what? I finished my Tour de Fleece project with almost a week to go… I was in need of…
Tour de Fleece: Yeah, very thick indeed
Last Sunday I plied all my singles on my wheel. As I was plying, I was a bit suspicious already.…
Flippety-fade
Another handspun shawl is finished! I’m particularly happy with this one, mostly because of the nice combination of colours, gradients,…
Thick and glitter
My previous spin was not as thick as had intended, so I tried again. This time I used SpinJones fibrein…
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…