Wordless Wednesday: Handspun
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Making
A Making Monday FO
A FO, for those not in the know is a Finished Object, in this case of the knitted sort. I had been stealth-knitting a hat for Giles’ birthday, had triumphantly finished and successfully stashed it away, before realising that I couldn’t share it online at all in case he saw. Last weekend saw the hat
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A Spinning Glossary
It’s been a while, but happily, I’ve been getting back to spinning a little bit more lately. I’ve the start of a lovely double knitting weight yarn on the go that is intended to be knitted into a beret. It’s the yellow affair on the bottom left in the picture of the 1960s Copley’s
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Making Monday: Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like its 1965
A condition of my Dad’s impending retirement is that he must, of course have a sleeveless jumper to wear to celebrate this milestone… and to look properly retired, you know? I was given the instruction that it must be a sludgy colour, not too thick and with ‘none of that fancy nonsense’. This was later
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Making Monday, the first.
Following Natalie at the Yarn Yard‘s great idea, I’m going to be blogging each Monday about making. This past weekend I have been finishing off and resolving a couple of big ongoing projects and thinking a lot about making (which in fact is the subject of a whole other blog post which will be forthcoming).
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