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, [...]

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 [...]

Silk hankie

I was too curious to keep my hands off the silk I got earlier this week. So I drafted and spun one very thin square of silk. The drafting seems to be everything when spinning silk hankies. There were some thicker spots that I tried to correct while spinning which was quite difficult. Not at [...]

Winter spinning

Spring went away and we have quite a bit of snow for being this town. It’s very beautiful but it will soon melt away.

There’s not been much knitting during Easter holiday but I’ve been spinning a bit. First weekend in April there will be a new knitting festival (Stickfest i väst) and I will attend [...]