on saturday i got myself the plying head for my lendrum wheel. and i love it.
the back story is that i have had this mongolian camel down on bobbins as singles, and, well, it needed to be plied. so i did. and it is beautiful, slightly thick and thin yarn. i [...]
Posted on February 7th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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I completely frogged the blanket. I was halfway done the first row of the grand pattern of the blanket, and saw it was NOT looking good that I decided to start over. It would be too much work for me to go back only as far as the seed stitch border and put it [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2006 by Dani
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today i did get a ball winder. adn the bulky/plying head for my wheel. and a new drive band for said wheel. (thanks, random cat who chewed the other. i needed that. really.)
a sad thing- detta’s big black dog passed away. it was one of the kid’s favorite things [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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really, they did.
so today i decided instead of handwinding this $%#^@* linen, i would take it to my local yarn shop to borrow her swift and ball winder. so i hauled a large part of my stash down there and proceeded to wind away.
i should have stopped while i was [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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Well, we’re starting to get unsavory commenters here. I am going to turn up the moderation filter, which means if you post a comment with links in it, it may get queued.
We mostly have been topposting links, anyhow–if you have a legitimate link, email helen at our domain and i’ll get it up somewhere.
Posted on February 3rd, 2006 by Helen
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so i have several works in progress. more than several if i delve deeply enough into my crates and crates of yarn. first is my grey linen skirt- the sasha skirt in the 22 in length from louet sales out of euroflax linen. i have the underskirt done, i just need to [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2006 by Pickleboot
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Just kidding. I finally have a current project, and it happens to be working on a small yellow blanket. Sound familiar? The difference is that she is doing cool cables on hers (I’ve seen it in progress), and mine is more like making patterns with moss/seed stitches. Also, she did not choose the bright [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2006 by Dani
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