Category: spinning

  • black, grey, stripes

    Just bound off this plain black shawl – just a top-down triangle in stockinette, with a seed stitch border. Needs a good blocking to open up, but doesn’t it look so cozy? It’s some cashmere that I bought a few Rhinebecks ago (too bad black is so hard to photograph). Also in hard to photograph […]

  • rip and re-crochet

    Along with my Wool-eater obsession, I also started another crochet project – a ripple blanket. I’d bought a bunch of Cascade Eco Wool awhile ago with the plan of making a knitted blanket, but once the crochet took hold it only seemed natural to crochet it instead! I started with a 5mm hook and a […]

  • tour de fleece – the final wrap-up

    So! I accomplished my goal of spinning every day, and got quite a bit done. These four skeins are the only ones I spun in their entirety during the Tour – I also plied some silver merino/silk and spun and plied the rest of some tussah silk. So how about some glamour shots and stats? […]