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Karen's Craft Odyssey

Karen's Craft Odyssey

Spinning, Weaving and Knitting (and whatever else I want to play with)

Archive for December, 2009

Sat
19
Dec '09

Three Ply Experiment

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 [...]

Tue
1
Dec '09

The Internet is Working Again

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 [...]