Since I came back home after Christmas I have been able to use my spinning wheel entirely guilt free. Which I like. Here is a photo of my first wheel-spun yarn. It is green rainbow merino from Wingham Wool Work, and I bought it last June at Woolfest. It is very softly spun and two [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 14, 2009
Cthulhu Dice Bag
Finally, a picture! This is the Cthulhu Dice Bag I knitted my boyfriend for Christmas. It is not all as the pattern. I used 4mm needles, as the 5mms would have knitted me a very good sieve. I also only picked up fifty stitches around the base, I couldn’t get seventy for love nor money [...]
January 8, 2009
Easy Knitted Accessories by Jeanette Trotman
Having looked through this book I have concluded that it is decidedly a beginner’s book. Obviously, this is what it claims in its subtitle “Fashionable projects for the novice knitter”, so far so good!
The problem is that it works on the basis that certain things are hard: like knitting in the round. As a result [...]
January 6, 2009
Spinning
Since I got home after Christmas I have finally been allowed to use my spinning wheel! This is very exciting! At the moment I am spinning up some lovely multi-shades-of-green merino I bought from Wingham Wool Work at Woolfest in June. It’s so pretty and soft! Because it is all greens and I am too [...]
January 1, 2009
2-at-a-time Socks, Melissa Morgan-Oakes
This was one of my Christmas present books, and one I was very excited about. I began knitting socks on double pointed needles and I have never really tried any other method. I can certainly see the benefits of circular needle sock knitting, and also of being able to knit two socks at a time. [...]
