Karen's Craft Odyssey

The internet connection at Ayers Rock Resort was poor — I’ve gone back and added pictures to Wednesday’s post. Thursday night we were at Kings Canyon Resort, with no internet or mobile phone coverage — I survived.
This will have to be a quick post. I’ve put some pictures up on Flickr, but probably [...]

Did you notice that there was no blog post yesterday? With my VERY sporadic posting, probably no Tuesday’s itinerary had us trekking to Palm Valley early in the morning. Alas, the weather conspired to prevent that trip. Winter rain in Alice Springs is rare, and enough rain for the Todd River [...]

Yes, I’m actually writing a blog post.
Yesterday morning we left Brisbane bright and early to catch a direct flight to Alice Springs.  We were looking forward to crisp blue skies and cool winter days in the desert.  Reality is a bit different.
Sunday afternoon wasn’t bad.  We had a half-day tour of the city.  It was [...]

Over the past several weeks I’ve been having fun with this thread over on Ravelry.  In it we’re discussing all sorts of combinations of different hand painted fiber into a single yarn.  I took three different hand painted rovings:
Coloured Stone from EGMTK:

Falkland from FeltStudioUK:

and Coral Sea from Spindlefrog (Corriedale top):

spun them into singles:

Then plied them [...]

Well, it wasn’t really broken.  But, we have been speed-limited for almost 2 weeks now.  So I’ve been spending my time at my spinning wheel instead of the computer.  I have several skeins of yarn to show for it.  Tonight I finished plying these two bobbins:

And these two as well:

I had fun with the [...]