Archive for April, 2005

Silk

So last night I was looking at all the bits of fiber I had around the house to see what I wanted to spin. Now, I don’t have much, because I’ve been buying mainly for spindle spinning and I’m not very fast at that. So pickings are a bit slim (but will be [...]

The Wheel Has Arrived

Isn’t she pretty? Fast, too. I spun 100 yards of the awful blue merino last night (I’m not going to post pictures as I’m not really pleased with the yarn; it’s seriously underplied in places), but tonight I spun the last of the Chocolate Fleecewood that Carrie gave me back in November [...]

Lovely Things

So no wheel yet, but I did get a new toy to play with in the mail today:

It’s a Natalie spindle, ordered from The Bellwether. It came with some soy silk, which I decided I hated spinning so I stopped. It was sticky. Gave a good idea of how nicely the spindle [...]

Woo!

Woohoo! My spinning wheel is shipping tomorrow! I should have it by mid-next week at the latest, as it’s coming UPS Ground.
I haven’t been doing a lot of knitting or spinning lately, as my time’s been sucked up mostly by ARC’s and, this week, work.