Progress on the Fiddleheads

I’m knitting on the first mitten as soon as the yarn dries. The pattern is great; I really like it. It’s been quite difficult to spin consistently, despite having made a sample card. The first batch of main and contrasting colours are thicker than what was the goal and a bit thick and thin. However, [...]

Meet Shelly the tortoise

Shelly is a GossypiumTestudinoidea or cotton tortoise. She now lives with my brother and his wife and is lovingly cared for by my 6 months old niece.

Pattern: Sheldon from Knitty winter 2006
Yarn: 2 skeins Garnstudio muskat
Needles: 3.5mm rosewood dpn
Notes: Not the best yarn and needle combo; Shelly is a little bit too see-through. It was [...]

High intake of Fibres

is good for your health.
I got the fibres from Spinspiration’s club last week. It’s gorgeous colours, and yet again a fibre I’ve never tried before. The colourway is harmony and it is 100g mohair. I haven’t got a clue what to make of it. 100g could be suitable for a shawl. But should it be [...]

UFO turns WIP

In July 2006 I started knitting on a bolero (Drops 86-36) and I knitted a little bit more than a sleeve. I really don’t like seaming so this is not the best construction for a shrug/bolero. Why knit the sleeves flat when you can knit them in the round?

Since last summer I’ve had plans to [...]

FO for a cold neck

I brought my Foaming sea project with me on our vacation. There’s been a few trials but none very successful. But, on the last trial I had made a rectangle in garter stitch and I just tried it around my neck and it sorta’ worked. So I twisted one end and did a three needle [...]

Fiddlehead spinning

During my vacation I started to sample the fibres for the Fiddlehead mittens. It was lovely to spin the BFL/silk. It ran smoothly and rather OK when it comes to consistency. I made a sample card with unwashed singles and plied yarn to have as a reference when spinning the yarn for the project. The [...]