Spindlitis

When you work from home…

terip — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:10:17 +0000

You can have a spinner’s desk!

With the holiday almost on us, I’ve even managed to do some spinning. I recently found my Hatchtown and Alhambra spindles so I added it to the collection in front of my monitor. I don’t find much time to spin so it really helps to have this at hand. I’m not sure if this is two different batches of camel/tussah silk or a different blend.

One of the things I wanted to do here….

terip — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:01:50 +0000

is start posting links to interesting videos. This one is from Rosemary Knits, which is a blog I really like, both for spinning and knitting. Take a look.

Rosemary Knits: Update to Tammy Rizzo's Navajo Ply on the Fly technique.

Why I love spindles

terip — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:35:25 +0000

I thought I’d post a picture of my home spinning project. I work from home several days a week. My spindle is a great stress killer.

The shawl from hell

terip — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:24:48 +0000

It seemed like a great project at the time but I’m starting to feel like I will never finish it. I’m getting close but bad stuff continues to happen. I took the time to string a lot of beads to try and finish it. Then I found a bad spot in the yarn. All wasted time. I was in the process of moving to a larger needle too.

Knitting like cooking

terip — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:36:09 +0000

I was listening to a cooking show the other day, while I was working on the edging for my Featherwwight cardigan. The hostess was talking about how you could vary the dish by changing the spices. It seemed to me to be a lot like what I was doing, setting off a feather and fan edging with a reverse stockinette stitch welt, adding some short rows to the collar. The pattern is a pretty basic one. I just spiced it up a bit, to make it more to my liking.

Travelling Woman

terip — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:13:00 +0000

This has been a fast knit so far with one small snag. Lolo was on my lap the other night and managed to unravel a section, causing me to rip back 4rows. I just have a couple more rows to do.

Sock Summit

terip — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:02:31 +0000

I didn’t get to take any classes but I did make it to the marketplace. Fun times at the marketplace.

I just couldn’t make up my mind what yarn to buy and had a very limited budget. I wound up with fiber, both from Crown Mountain Farms. The fawn color is 70% alpaca/ 30% tussah silk, one of my favorite blends. The darker is Blue Faced Leicester, which I’ve spun before and also really love. Both are 4oz bumps, enough for a small shawl.
Fiber from the marketplace

I really love sock summit and am sorry I missed out on the flash mob, which looked like this:

Testing

terip — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:55:37 +0000

This is going to be a post just to see how the new blog looks and to decide which theme to use.