tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35405965358922042352024-03-14T06:27:48.065+00:00Freyalyn's textile stuffAdventures in making things with thread and yarn and colourFreyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-21445205604965285882022-01-01T21:15:00.002+00:002022-01-01T21:29:26.521+00:00Yarn to make bees...<p>A month or two ago, I was contacted by a friend to see if I could provide some naturally dyed bee-coloured yarn to be given to someone who made rather wonderful textile bees. That is not something I had in, but I did recommend <a href="https://www.fieryfelts.co.uk/" target="_blank">Helen Melvin's Fiery Felts</a> as somewhere that did fabulous natural dyes on wools and silks. </p><p>So I was asked if I'd turn some of Helen's gorgeous 'From My Stash To Yours' packs into yarn, and two bags arrived shortly afterwards. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsL4KZT0GbJWLaPSSZmsvmEUmA5M2iROoMKOSoADTgjbCL7fP4ZixqBcfcfANjP8o6XszhX87uwBan5G8n7am0lgD2IHwh8AIHd5J6PdLWS9WY0ztKPkP49ROTJCAOKUFtJKI4LXXMIZQgNR76rFO5XOiEE2TPBQSpWdbyWQ4Lu6tE9IJHpYOlGl-b3w=s3765" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2439" data-original-width="3765" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsL4KZT0GbJWLaPSSZmsvmEUmA5M2iROoMKOSoADTgjbCL7fP4ZixqBcfcfANjP8o6XszhX87uwBan5G8n7am0lgD2IHwh8AIHd5J6PdLWS9WY0ztKPkP49ROTJCAOKUFtJKI4LXXMIZQgNR76rFO5XOiEE2TPBQSpWdbyWQ4Lu6tE9IJHpYOlGl-b3w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This is what it looked like, unpacked and divided up between fibre types. <br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdHXtXZvd5dLwD--vgCJ1gns-Un1Rt1ATtiSOp4qTjKj-HE2efW8Mf9FUP_bfbu3CUqwg_8ENLE2dDUHbeyszVrnYPOF2aXIUmZzqggceAaD5mVlr3-73RtjwTMBvdzlX4SqVfMMa_9r-T4qhr0f-oX_1AqvIEOo6fsQabsftLveXqdYnoCP90XgS4Rg=s3813" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3813" data-original-width="3020" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdHXtXZvd5dLwD--vgCJ1gns-Un1Rt1ATtiSOp4qTjKj-HE2efW8Mf9FUP_bfbu3CUqwg_8ENLE2dDUHbeyszVrnYPOF2aXIUmZzqggceAaD5mVlr3-73RtjwTMBvdzlX4SqVfMMa_9r-T4qhr0f-oX_1AqvIEOo6fsQabsftLveXqdYnoCP90XgS4Rg=s320" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the things I stress again and again in my fibre preparation classes is that the attraction of cats to fibres is in direct proportion to the amount of time spent preparing said fibre, so always, always, always keep it in a box with a lid firml closed. Oops...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9oCDFb-6plgivpRFgOEOjdPBC66BeoH-4HnJLs7-RnKsv7RQcks3A_rl0Zd1b-VBD2pEhoOeviFkjsbOU79Hy6X1K3_GNG-O2V3JjJNo-OVyKo7vVtXBqg3J5Jt5QVd-j2hqw5Hro3-FTnfrJ8HJZwh7KCUgYs4E4VDKiPkuX9q3C5W5688ymi0Ktfw=s4128" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9oCDFb-6plgivpRFgOEOjdPBC66BeoH-4HnJLs7-RnKsv7RQcks3A_rl0Zd1b-VBD2pEhoOeviFkjsbOU79Hy6X1K3_GNG-O2V3JjJNo-OVyKo7vVtXBqg3J5Jt5QVd-j2hqw5Hro3-FTnfrJ8HJZwh7KCUgYs4E4VDKiPkuX9q3C5W5688ymi0Ktfw=s320" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to prepare all these for spinning with hand cards. I wanted to spin fairly fine and smooth so it all needed prepping before diving in, even the wool tops. One of the reasons that I usually only use natural dyes on yarns rather than fibre is that the fibre needs much more handling with the natural dyes, and it can felt very easily. Both the tops in this were lovely soft wool, and therefore ended up slightly felted; not enough to cause problems, but it wouldn't have been relaxed spinning without a little opening up first. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I divided the fibres up by type - wool tops, wool fleece, silk hankies, silk top, a small amount of kid mohair locks - and spun them up mostly within their own types. Some of the silk tops were carded into some of the soft wools, some became gradients, and the silk hankies were just pulled open and spun as is. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The colours were glorious - gold, russet, pinks, pale yellows...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhscx6BicANvqWh9jx5MbOgEa-3ddcfpnf39IRbIx1PjDGQ_5RqWPzIbQ4VaBBEqDcB9pj9qIIxwneu2t34chRQCKnDSDxN1IvfXC98pRxl_PXUow40cmE7ceUOrSNhFkh__XJ8SJXMH3hOUy3gmm0jRD5L_ha3XO7PkJsC-xN66RihXfwzdokhtddf6Q=s3508" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2981" data-original-width="3508" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhscx6BicANvqWh9jx5MbOgEa-3ddcfpnf39IRbIx1PjDGQ_5RqWPzIbQ4VaBBEqDcB9pj9qIIxwneu2t34chRQCKnDSDxN1IvfXC98pRxl_PXUow40cmE7ceUOrSNhFkh__XJ8SJXMH3hOUy3gmm0jRD5L_ha3XO7PkJsC-xN66RihXfwzdokhtddf6Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And this is what I ended up with. Not as much yarn as you might initially have thought, but I've spun it to about fingering/4ply thickness, and it's all two ply yarn. I also added some natural black Shetland I spun up to match, for making bees. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcxUNgWomUuVgXZesnLLt-fmglF9v6ovNUneyFNOXNdqvvCsr8MORvK-0tJnl-qorjJ4v6OJAS-gO7K_5rt58a2q3VbGcWJNmlnibGXHCfzcNvRTNbad9OznK8Ea_135ICouH0_AaScsNRzX2Pc9-25GDQOPciGziDCP4OI5Ym3bsK96PycS2Xkc3WQ=s3835" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2322" data-original-width="3835" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcxUNgWomUuVgXZesnLLt-fmglF9v6ovNUneyFNOXNdqvvCsr8MORvK-0tJnl-qorjJ4v6OJAS-gO7K_5rt58a2q3VbGcWJNmlnibGXHCfzcNvRTNbad9OznK8Ea_135ICouH0_AaScsNRzX2Pc9-25GDQOPciGziDCP4OI5Ym3bsK96PycS2Xkc3WQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>You can see some of the gradients when photographed from the top down. The silk was would on to the inside of loo rolls; silk will collapse in on itself given half a chance, and tangles horribly. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKIevVVaJWX1dWVQQVhQBiMEhXzUL2PNudFC-Vrtd9GgL0Skvjm7Etd0Ti2-HayP75OIE8AR316_OTNy1XbSj3SQJrNuEkAQ1gvypAfBVQWaKwmCnGyBtqZIyzYR-Njz7b0s4q84vyk_e_r51KyfVo0Ny_ciRNSVK-f5lqpsBKVOAmUKhEc_AfZ3HjzA=s3059" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2322" data-original-width="3059" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKIevVVaJWX1dWVQQVhQBiMEhXzUL2PNudFC-Vrtd9GgL0Skvjm7Etd0Ti2-HayP75OIE8AR316_OTNy1XbSj3SQJrNuEkAQ1gvypAfBVQWaKwmCnGyBtqZIyzYR-Njz7b0s4q84vyk_e_r51KyfVo0Ny_ciRNSVK-f5lqpsBKVOAmUKhEc_AfZ3HjzA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>So there we are! I managed to get it all done and off in the post on the 18th December, and I hope it got there in time. </div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-41382509086495806462021-08-31T16:45:00.002+01:002021-08-31T16:45:12.039+01:00WSD Summer School: Flax to Fabric<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's over a week since I got back from Summer School, and the last day of August, so I'd better bash out a blog post while it's all still fresh in my mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What an amazing week that was! I've not attended the WSD Summer School as a student before now - I've been as a vendor to the trade fair a couple of times, and once as a judge for the spinning CoE, so it was a very different experience. Of course, in these Covid times it was going to be a difference experience anyway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been wanting to learn about dealing with flax for a while, so when I found out last year that Riita Sinkkonen Davies was going to be teaching about flax and turning it into yarn and fabric I was desperate to go. Summer School is vastly expensive (not for what it is, but for a week's 'holiday' it's much more than I'd usually pay) so I was extremely lucky to get a bursary on my initial application, and then a place in Riita's class. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poor Mark had to drive me all the way from home to Writtle, near Chelmsford, and then take himself and the boyz back home on their own. It was a long hot day, and the car was full of stuff. But once I was there it was so peaceful - I had a first floor room (with a typically uncomfortable student bed) with this view out of the gardens. And lots of sweary seagulls around all the time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvTmipYrBxo/YS0crj3OliI/AAAAAAAACLw/FVWKS_NMMPQp7FYcA4HihUtr21WCbncCACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210818_125123.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvTmipYrBxo/YS0crj3OliI/AAAAAAAACLw/FVWKS_NMMPQp7FYcA4HihUtr21WCbncCACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210818_125123.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the first day Riita introduced us to flax - the different colours it comes in due to where it's grown, type of flax, and type of retting. These beautiful colours below are all grown by Riita: same place, same flax, just different years. And yes, it still surprises me how few people realise why 'flaxen hair' is called that! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rzLXFrx5LE/YS0bgondDrI/AAAAAAAACLM/ol2kn-Cfv9cmZgtYcrdDUzBRfj_V-sWLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210816_093330.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4rzLXFrx5LE/YS0bgondDrI/AAAAAAAACLM/ol2kn-Cfv9cmZgtYcrdDUzBRfj_V-sWLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210816_093330.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We made cones for our distaffs and dressed them with stricks of flax from Lithuania (Riita had brought lots of flax from different places). I'd brought my (probably Norwegian) old flax wheel, which just sang wtih joy when she realised she was spinning real flax again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PrUgVRck0hc/YS0cHXDkY7I/AAAAAAAACLc/m5H5d9CH9SAF4bdGohWdt7Vw6lp3zHgbACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210816_104746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PrUgVRck0hc/YS0cHXDkY7I/AAAAAAAACLc/m5H5d9CH9SAF4bdGohWdt7Vw6lp3zHgbACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210816_104746.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And Riita had proper flax processing tools too. Some of our group went to a local farm that grew flax on the free Wednesday afternoon, and brought back armsfuls of retted flax that we processed there are then. (It made a very golden fibre).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nD5wI1izY1M/YS0crrolyZI/AAAAAAAACLs/GSysGQLKAKYQkkGGZP8vgUWSb5NAlS3QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210818_103336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nD5wI1izY1M/YS0crrolyZI/AAAAAAAACLs/GSysGQLKAKYQkkGGZP8vgUWSb5NAlS3QQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210818_103336.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had hackles to play with, too. In my bag of flax (I'd been collecting for a while) I had a big hank of processed but unhackled flax - look at the difference! </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ys9LwjiplWw/YS0cr03Cj9I/AAAAAAAACL0/FOxNbzkcnD4EXZy4dGia-lExsFFpDiiMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210818_183820.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1893" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ys9LwjiplWw/YS0cr03Cj9I/AAAAAAAACL0/FOxNbzkcnD4EXZy4dGia-lExsFFpDiiMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210818_183820.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made some cordage from the waste from hackling. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-th5jbATyJhg/YS0cuFWxNZI/AAAAAAAACMI/22K1QbRv7MQU_zLZF8QZyvDyXUry1pZjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210818_184102_545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-th5jbATyJhg/YS0cuFWxNZI/AAAAAAAACMI/22K1QbRv7MQU_zLZF8QZyvDyXUry1pZjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210818_184102_545.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is our class photo - just after Riita had distributed flax stricks she'd received from the <a href="https://spinoffmagazine.com/bertas-flax-travels-the-world/">Berta's Flax Project</a>. Many of us (myself included) had already heard of this, and already received flax, but it was good to spread the word. We made the decision as a group to be unmasked within the classroom provided all doors and windows were open.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tBIhBEsRd5Y/YS0cshujeRI/AAAAAAAACL4/tvoOEBuVvJQ4JcxC3TDiN_pd8uBcq8FPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210820_135820.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tBIhBEsRd5Y/YS0cshujeRI/AAAAAAAACL4/tvoOEBuVvJQ4JcxC3TDiN_pd8uBcq8FPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210820_135820.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Six of our class members had been asked to bring table looms which were warped up with millspun linen warps brought by Riita, and we all took turns in using our own linen handspun to weave sections on each loom. Much organisation was required to make sure that everyone got their own section back after cutting off and rinsing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't get involved in that; I was much more interested in producing yarn. I did make an short length of warp-faced braid, and then a longer strip of open-weave, on my inkle loom. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIWfEm5gsO4/YS0ctXXOO1I/AAAAAAAACL8/h9C-9gZH1rwGBZBOCGtdAFl5nFq7UR9yACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210820_160759.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIWfEm5gsO4/YS0ctXXOO1I/AAAAAAAACL8/h9C-9gZH1rwGBZBOCGtdAFl5nFq7UR9yACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210820_160759.jpg" width="240" /></a>I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd been asked to bring one of my electric ring cookers so we could boil our yarns in a soap and soda solution. After much palaver when I couldn't find anyone to PAT my existing rings, I ended up buying a new one. I ended up taking charge of the whole boiling operation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was my final production tally at the end of the week; doesn't look like much, but the information I have absorbed from watching, listening, reading, is amazing. I can't wait to do more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9fJ-jBwkUfk/YS0ctrbsffI/AAAAAAAACMA/OS3d-lwvSacoaBZoMBjjzrSLEqLdIPZugCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210821_095139.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9fJ-jBwkUfk/YS0ctrbsffI/AAAAAAAACMA/OS3d-lwvSacoaBZoMBjjzrSLEqLdIPZugCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210821_095139.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Writtle college was a lovely place - amazing plants all over the place (wonderful for the eco-printing group), greenhouses, romantically overgrown shrubs and flowerbeds everywhere but the lawns had been maintained so it was all wanderable-through. Apparently this is the first event at the college since lockdown began last year, so there were a few teething issues. The food was perfectly adequate if a bit basic, though the 'gala dinner' on the last night was extremely tasty. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The displays for this year's candidates for the Certificate of Excellent were astounding, as you'd expect. The standard of work and presentation were excellent. I really ought to do this, but I know I can't dedicate enough time to it now. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't know if I'll ever manage to get the time or the money together to attend another Summer School, but it was a cracking event. I have huge appreciation for the organisers (and especially the convenor) putting it together so well in such challenging times. I did notice the rather nice bags and travel mugs and other gifts and souvenirs were all marked with Writtle and Chelmsford and WSD summer school, but not the date - luckily it didn't have to be postponed. </div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So poor Mark stuffed the boyz in the car and came down to retrieve me on the finishing day, leaving home very early and getting to me shortly after ten. The drive home was longer as there was more traffic, but it wasn't as hot. And then we had to drive two hours in the other direction on the following Monday, as I'd bought a table loom and stand on eBay. So that's my new adventure. </div><br /><br /></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-66860978922921890492021-07-29T14:23:00.005+01:002021-07-29T14:32:03.827+01:00Repairing socks<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-7RuXX7T1Y/YQKqaAMD_XI/AAAAAAAACKI/jA6ux5mEUpsZIdu7CPkr2ZUzOPUaFC1pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210729_141513.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-7RuXX7T1Y/YQKqaAMD_XI/AAAAAAAACKI/jA6ux5mEUpsZIdu7CPkr2ZUzOPUaFC1pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210729_141513.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I knitted these socks fairly recently, from handspun (mostly) Shetland. It's a very basic sock recipe I use: toe up, short-row heels, ribbed tops, stretchy cast-off.<p></p><div><br /></div><div>But these have had two relatively long walks (for me) in my new walking books, and so the heel had worn out in in one and was thinning in the other. So here we are - two different sock repairs.</div><div><br /></div><div>The top one is darned using my lovely vintage SpeedWeve, which makes neat little woven squares or rectangles directly on to the fabric being repaired.</div><div><br /></div><div>The lower sock had stitches picked up around the thinning heel and a heel knitted over the (loosely tacked together) hole where the original heel had been. </div><div><br /></div><div>The yarn is random merino/nylon sockyarn from the stash. I could have spun some more but I didn't. </div><div><br /></div><div>My socks always wear out on the heel, just above the point. Mark's tend to wear out under the ball of his foot. It's interesting how people walk differently...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Afs5_gjOld4/YQKty9AMvaI/AAAAAAAACKQ/uEMuDi4RCUwOY2qJ7swd7ykDlHNMj-hCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210729_143020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2048" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Afs5_gjOld4/YQKty9AMvaI/AAAAAAAACKQ/uEMuDi4RCUwOY2qJ7swd7ykDlHNMj-hCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210729_143020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-71236156895152370382021-06-26T12:22:00.002+01:002021-06-29T19:39:37.275+01:00Boreray fleece to yarn...<p> I have just finished spinning <a href="https://www.rbst.org.uk/boreray-sheep-25">Boreray</a> fleece into yarn. There's 100g washed weight here, 450m of what I'd call heavy laceweight or light fingering yarn, with a gradient at the end (or the beginning). I love it, and now I have to decide what to do with it. This wool came from <a href="http://www.orkneyboreray.com/">Orkney Boreray </a>- this year Jane has some exceptionally nice fleece that deserved to be handspun. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MITcEG03NrY/YNcGIsb-ucI/AAAAAAAACGU/eGQOgKejxGEjX5M1KGWW878fYw9a5XozgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114620.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1892" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MITcEG03NrY/YNcGIsb-ucI/AAAAAAAACGU/eGQOgKejxGEjX5M1KGWW878fYw9a5XozgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114620.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This is what it looked like skeined, with a 20p piece in there to show thickness. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4OXkQETuOo/YNcGIUyJ8ZI/AAAAAAAACGQ/L6JkMEoIZ98saCJs1Tj8pHt3DnR_SOTYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4OXkQETuOo/YNcGIUyJ8ZI/AAAAAAAACGQ/L6JkMEoIZ98saCJs1Tj8pHt3DnR_SOTYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And this is straight off the bobbin and unwashed. It looks desperately overplied, but that's because the singles had been hanging around a bit before plying and had time to set their twist. I do like a yarn with high twist, which I think shows off the wool nicely but also makes it more hardwearing, whatever I do with it. Because it's woollen-spun, the yarn still has a soft, airy handle.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BC0eUujdijY/YNcGHtZBtZI/AAAAAAAACGM/lz-2H3r-XHEkO5BWTyARFQmoeqy0NzbGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114537.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BC0eUujdijY/YNcGHtZBtZI/AAAAAAAACGM/lz-2H3r-XHEkO5BWTyARFQmoeqy0NzbGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114537.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>About to be plied, both bobbins having been rewound. These are the Majacraft baby bobbins (not the lace ones), used with the lace flyer. I spin most of my singles with this set up, as I tend to be spinning fine fast yarn. There was five metres difference when I plied them together.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d0-iRnOLcdo/YNcGHEU6euI/AAAAAAAACGI/kQUes_ry_v42gfllTNqRljI5H2OT24vQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d0-iRnOLcdo/YNcGHEU6euI/AAAAAAAACGI/kQUes_ry_v42gfllTNqRljI5H2OT24vQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114519.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The difference between a rewound bobbin and one just as the yarn's spun on. I tend to rewind everything now; it makes plying not only easier but much more regular. The rewinding gives the singles a chance to spread the twist out.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hRs9TijbUjk/YNcGGojNeNI/AAAAAAAACGE/_ORDSNmpfhomODKJpI2Jh7fsg7Xx7RhxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1788" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hRs9TijbUjk/YNcGGojNeNI/AAAAAAAACGE/_ORDSNmpfhomODKJpI2Jh7fsg7Xx7RhxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114501.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I do love a nice rolag, as anyone who has taken my long draw woollen spinning workshop will know!</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JL3ZhCILr8Q/YNcGGaMCQoI/AAAAAAAACGA/nkybJ6Sj-wkomnqY-dnCuUwjtzClugkNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1887" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JL3ZhCILr8Q/YNcGGaMCQoI/AAAAAAAACGA/nkybJ6Sj-wkomnqY-dnCuUwjtzClugkNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114402.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>All the finished rolags, stacked neatly in the box that my new hiking boots came in (shoe boxes are extremely useful for storing rolags, especially if you have cats.) There were 28 white rolags and 14 grey rolags in each half. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hN5fsD3ESeE/YNcGFeJE5ZI/AAAAAAAACF8/ZrI5oke8Licjtrx8hwK-h8GT-SjQ84P-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1443" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hN5fsD3ESeE/YNcGFeJE5ZI/AAAAAAAACF8/ZrI5oke8Licjtrx8hwK-h8GT-SjQ84P-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114335.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I pretty much randomly carded the grey fleece, but then laid all the grey rolags out in gradient order and split them into two equal stacks. Once I'd spun half the white rolags on to one bobbin I carried on with the grey, so each single was a matching gradient. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9FGCZAlC4w/YNcGEoYsKGI/AAAAAAAACF4/1QA0z8mYoXUdOIqJTyVGppJuyGTnBX8OwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114318.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1977" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9FGCZAlC4w/YNcGEoYsKGI/AAAAAAAACF4/1QA0z8mYoXUdOIqJTyVGppJuyGTnBX8OwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114318.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Washed fleece: there's a tiny bit of scurf, and you can see the odd coarser hair, but it's lovely wool. And with it being roo'd rather than shorn, there are no blunt ends to cause scratchiness in an otherwise skin-soft wool. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9GB77B7wWTs/YNcGEVJa6KI/AAAAAAAACF0/fyO2TpDLLC4H1g1i4R2ls7qXBWM9OJDBACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114253.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1823" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9GB77B7wWTs/YNcGEVJa6KI/AAAAAAAACF0/fyO2TpDLLC4H1g1i4R2ls7qXBWM9OJDBACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114253.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I washed the wool split into two laundry bags, to give it space to move around but not so much space that I lost the lock structure. These were dunked in very hot water with a decent amount of ordinary washing-up liquid, left for twenty minutes with occasional careful squishing, spun out in a freestanding spin dryer, rinsed for ten minutes in equally hot clean water, spun out again, then hung up on a sunny afternoon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzmtTKtpTmE/YNcGCR1BU1I/AAAAAAAACFk/TdPqP_A2U1EHJxLHHGenX6kiLDbX6QmcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzmtTKtpTmE/YNcGCR1BU1I/AAAAAAAACFk/TdPqP_A2U1EHJxLHHGenX6kiLDbX6QmcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114204.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><br /></div>I did a quick sampling of spinning the wool either washed or raw. Both made a nice yarn, but after washing the plied yarn, I found the yarn spun from the washed and carded wool was airier and more consistent than the one spun from raw wool. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hp8ZGKGBaNE/YNcGECuPcdI/AAAAAAAACFw/6LsZTfFr45MAnzrmL-aQFmGISsyvXt0QgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hp8ZGKGBaNE/YNcGECuPcdI/AAAAAAAACFw/6LsZTfFr45MAnzrmL-aQFmGISsyvXt0QgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114228.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unwashed fleece, as I unpacked it from the box. Really nice stuff, you can see a lovely lock structure straight as it came off the sheep; Jane had roo'd this wool beautifully, retaining the shape of the fleece. There was absolutely no wastage in washing or processing. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CK-fuM_dwc0/YNcGCcbg96I/AAAAAAAACFo/do9tbqRllbIvKhTViOErcNh5rnUJm4j6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114143.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1788" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CK-fuM_dwc0/YNcGCcbg96I/AAAAAAAACFo/do9tbqRllbIvKhTViOErcNh5rnUJm4j6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114143.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And this was what I had to do immediately the box of wool arrived - grab a small lock, rinse it, handle it, brush it out. Boreray, like many of the old and native sheep of the North, has an interesting feel to it. The wool I got from Jane has a lovely soft handle, but there is also body and texture to it that you wouldn't find in a more 'domestic' sheep. There's the odd guard hair, but those popped out in the spinning. The carding produced a few neps, but they fell off in the spinning too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EWM2EkHL-A/YNcGCdDU-kI/AAAAAAAACFs/twwONIKfLG0eHy54j0QcVUk2rS1Ie3vGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210626_114122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EWM2EkHL-A/YNcGCdDU-kI/AAAAAAAACFs/twwONIKfLG0eHy54j0QcVUk2rS1Ie3vGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210626_114122.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div><div>And these are <a href="https://twitter.com/OrkneyBoreray/status/1409169738622775299">the sheep </a>the wool came from, partially roo'd: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDb0EicBUrI/YNto01imWlI/AAAAAAAACHg/pYRHBxghVPIkT2v16W427InUcaLOwjN0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Borerary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDb0EicBUrI/YNto01imWlI/AAAAAAAACHg/pYRHBxghVPIkT2v16W427InUcaLOwjN0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Borerary.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-63925164890177258842021-06-10T19:03:00.000+01:002021-06-10T19:03:00.347+01:00Embroidered apron of magic <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last year, round about May-time, I embroidered myself a cross-over linen apron with a raven and a hare and an otter (I was on furlough from the day job!) My friend Karin, of <a href="https://www.celestineandthehare.com/">Celestine and the Hare</a>, rather admired it, so we tentatively agreed on a swap of 'made things'. I found another linen apron, I redrew the animals and transferred them on, I transferred Karin's lovely new logo, and then somehow, last July, the basket containing threads and my hoop and the fabric got covered up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It didn't actually go away. We've been knocking it off the stool it's been balanced on as we walk past ever since. And then, a couple of weeks ago, the urge to embroider came upon me! The marking's hadn't faded much so I whipped through in next to no time. The raven was mostly stitched listening to a fascinating (and, in hindsight, oddly appropriate) lecture on Anglo-Saxon swords of renown. The golden hare was stitched as summer suddenly became hot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then it was washed (I don't like making non-washable things), pressed, and posted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here is the finished thing, in its final home, surrounded by all the creatures who inspired it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n10gtXzIk3Q/YMJN2jqxY-I/AAAAAAAACBA/rcJV4er-ZYc2ewDzobuPyASOd4iMJk4sACLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n10gtXzIk3Q/YMJN2jqxY-I/AAAAAAAACBA/rcJV4er-ZYc2ewDzobuPyASOd4iMJk4sACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B1.jpg" /></a></div><p>I thought the pockets would prove popular. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RilWxEHpAQk/YMJN2TXBH2I/AAAAAAAACA4/-dT-uNEWKSovD7fvtu8iBpkQObVRRaIJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B3%2Bpocket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RilWxEHpAQk/YMJN2TXBH2I/AAAAAAAACA4/-dT-uNEWKSovD7fvtu8iBpkQObVRRaIJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B3%2Bpocket.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm sure choklit wrappers have already been concealed in this pocket. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bZkltAoYnxk/YMJN2SAle_I/AAAAAAAACA8/YUbj6xFgd_8QsZJabcZERST_S1B2iBv_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B2%2Bpocket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bZkltAoYnxk/YMJN2SAle_I/AAAAAAAACA8/YUbj6xFgd_8QsZJabcZERST_S1B2iBv_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B2%2Bpocket.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;"></p><p>I wasn't actually thinking of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)">Kit Williams' Golden Hare</a> when I was stitching this beautiful creature, or even the Watership Down movie's story within a story of El-ahrairah, but they may have been in the back of my mind.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpmJ1SCq0wM/YMJN3J2ojpI/AAAAAAAACBE/yhdN2kd6TRAwZbPk4WutJjtO8zsANr1zgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B4%2Bhare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpmJ1SCq0wM/YMJN3J2ojpI/AAAAAAAACBE/yhdN2kd6TRAwZbPk4WutJjtO8zsANr1zgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B4%2Bhare.jpg" /></a></div><p>The lovely logo, of course, contains a hare and leaves and life inside the moon. (It's a new moon tonight).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTMlH4Cj4pU/YMJN3lcNEII/AAAAAAAACBI/1mZfk1FB1QseFOeZR6rVXPnHejWN2lX-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B5%2Bmoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTMlH4Cj4pU/YMJN3lcNEII/AAAAAAAACBI/1mZfk1FB1QseFOeZR6rVXPnHejWN2lX-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B5%2Bmoon.jpg" /></a></div><p>And the raven. Corvids, with their fierce intelligence, cheeky humour and mythic baggage, are magical creatures all by themselves. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ftnmwRhGAEw/YMJN4CkK0sI/AAAAAAAACBM/HyOAlbJFF-4VzTlPXG34iSZKVDO74wPrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2016/Apron%2B6%2Braven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ftnmwRhGAEw/YMJN4CkK0sI/AAAAAAAACBM/HyOAlbJFF-4VzTlPXG34iSZKVDO74wPrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Apron%2B6%2Braven.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I create these designs by drawing an outline first, either on paper or directly on to the fabric. (You can actually buy a pencil that will allow you to make iron-on transfers yourself.) I have a collection of threads of various types and thicknesses, some bought, some found, some parts of long extinct kits, and then I just let the needle draw feathers, spirals, leaves, flowers, waves...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I see more embroidery in my future. I may even have to buy more thread. Actually, I ought to spin my own embroidery thread, and dye it too. </div><br /> <p></p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-59629764595891714882021-05-31T22:27:00.001+01:002021-05-31T22:27:43.335+01:00A shawl to protect from fairies...<p>...or to attract them?</p><p>So this is what happened to the Away wi' the Fairies yarn I <a href="https://freyalyn.blogspot.com/2021/04/spinning-to-weave.html">spun and posted </a>about back in April; I finally got around to weaving it up as intended, after I did that other blanket. </p><p>As you can see, the tiny Ninasaurus (who is fully grown but remains a miniature yet ferocious black cat) took a keen interest in the warping of my rigid heddle. I didn't dare leave it unsupervised until it was safely wound on. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMTUrjfKl4c/YLVJvTUjLEI/AAAAAAAACAY/A_nxLoKt3vg4xoYg8gXHGu3AOSHIRcYwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210523_151643_386.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMTUrjfKl4c/YLVJvTUjLEI/AAAAAAAACAY/A_nxLoKt3vg4xoYg8gXHGu3AOSHIRcYwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210523_151643_386.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I have a warping peg permanently clamped on a chair arm across the living room from where I move my cupboard/table on wheels when I'm warping. I seem to manage to get it in the same place each time, as all the strips I weave, with no measurement, seem to come out the same length. <div><br /></div><div>The first strip was warped up and woven off on Friday and Saturday. The second one was threaded and woven in a long Zoom chat on Saturday night – just under five hours! <br /><div><br /></div><div>This is what the fabric looked like with the fringes trimmed and twisted and the centre seam stitched up, but not washed or pressed at all. The eye-wateringly bright colours have been greatly muted by the use of a fine grey wool yarn as warp; I bought a couple of cones of it from a friend on Ravelry a few years ago, when I still used Ravelry, and it's been extremely useful. I shall be sad to see it all used up. </div><div><div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCM7QGBZkew/YLVJumYN5rI/AAAAAAAACAM/yzY23asxcIEFxYDFDUzWq9NVQPnZB3rRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204806.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1814" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCM7QGBZkew/YLVJumYN5rI/AAAAAAAACAM/yzY23asxcIEFxYDFDUzWq9NVQPnZB3rRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210530_204806.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a close-up of the fabric and the centre seam before finishing. I just love stuffing a piece of fresh weaving in the washing machine (I have a very good wash cycle at 30 or 40℃) and seeing how it comes out. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cx_ZZdFsCnw/YLVJrv8y33I/AAAAAAAACAA/nTWlpeUwb6wFshtAfYFC9Y2TkJDtsvtgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_125528.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cx_ZZdFsCnw/YLVJrv8y33I/AAAAAAAACAA/nTWlpeUwb6wFshtAfYFC9Y2TkJDtsvtgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210530_125528.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>And this is it washed – softer, relaxed, and with the yarns relaxing into each other and the irregularity of my weft threads much improved. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KRMav2E2KBw/YLVJrirPz7I/AAAAAAAACAE/R-9cAfrQeL0fSR7XHAPvwxEDrBTVP-OTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204351.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KRMav2E2KBw/YLVJrirPz7I/AAAAAAAACAE/R-9cAfrQeL0fSR7XHAPvwxEDrBTVP-OTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210530_204351.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Hanging on my (very short) washing line in yesterday's sunshine.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASk2Bx3o024/YLVJq2mkPmI/AAAAAAAAB_8/OFI8oVc6tqY_LjZWI2ONFaOoJ5qG6fVQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="201" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASk2Bx3o024/YLVJq2mkPmI/AAAAAAAAB_8/OFI8oVc6tqY_LjZWI2ONFaOoJ5qG6fVQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w268-h201/20210530_204304.jpg" width="268" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WYyU5vIa_t0/YLVJukYBizI/AAAAAAAACAU/Iw_hC90-SpM-5UtQVOq0y-b5VXiPDfGdACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204843.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="2048" height="204" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WYyU5vIa_t0/YLVJukYBizI/AAAAAAAACAU/Iw_hC90-SpM-5UtQVOq0y-b5VXiPDfGdACLcBGAsYHQ/w296-h204/20210530_204843.jpg" width="296" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's 180cm long, nearly 70cm wide, and weighs 340g.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I do like how my door is looking at the moment, though it will be better soon as the flowers in the tubs and baskets start to look a bit more lively. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oD-crCjNHZw/YLVJue_LniI/AAAAAAAACAQ/I4mWOSHTZjI-92xHOcU8-m0dh7DLzmwIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204610.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oD-crCjNHZw/YLVJue_LniI/AAAAAAAACAQ/I4mWOSHTZjI-92xHOcU8-m0dh7DLzmwIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210530_204610.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Twisted fringes...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMaIt9WaNjk/YLVJsokpT0I/AAAAAAAACAI/yUTyU8IFN5IBVT_Ozxkq8FxMeAMncpEOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210530_204401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMaIt9WaNjk/YLVJsokpT0I/AAAAAAAACAI/yUTyU8IFN5IBVT_Ozxkq8FxMeAMncpEOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210530_204401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I got the last eight skeins of my sock yarn dyed up today. It's warm enough that it'll be dry enough to twist up and label tomorrow. Then it can go off to be sold, and I shall think about whether it's worth buying more. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div></div></div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-15735769607133865172021-05-28T18:57:00.001+01:002021-05-28T18:57:06.839+01:00Bluestockings, and real blue socks<p>Latest sock off the needles - the Elizabeth Montagu sock from the latest pattern club by Kate Davies, the <a href="https://kddandco.com/2021/05/14/the-bluestocking-club/">Bluestocking Club</a>. </p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_x6aKZLwppU/YLEpugRjJEI/AAAAAAAAB_c/OA1z8CaStWgrIOdvwBzDfKPk6KJKExLYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210528_183230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1927" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_x6aKZLwppU/YLEpugRjJEI/AAAAAAAAB_c/OA1z8CaStWgrIOdvwBzDfKPk6KJKExLYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210528_183230.jpg" /></a></p><p>Much as I fancied treating myself to some l<a href="https://www.jarbon.com/product/exmoor-sock-4ply/">ovely Arbon sock yarn,</a> I really can't afford it this month. And it's not as if I don't have a large amount of sock yarn in the general yarn stash. (In fact, the sock yarn is in its own (small) chest, separate from the boxes upstairs.) So I had a quick stash-dive to see what I could find in the line of blue sock yarn (I can be very literal when I want to be) and found these.</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AgKufbDdpNE/YLEprfIIQuI/AAAAAAAAB_M/rJ1awvxnOoAvwnJmw0CvJrYzyqRXmqPswCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210522_121802.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1888" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AgKufbDdpNE/YLEprfIIQuI/AAAAAAAAB_M/rJ1awvxnOoAvwnJmw0CvJrYzyqRXmqPswCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210522_121802.jpg" /></a></p><p>On the left is a skein of the lovely <a href="https://www.ripplescrafts.com/">Ripplescrafts</a> sock yarn, in a colourway that I believe was dyed a few years ago in support of the local lifeboat up there in the far North-West of Scotland (I want to go back there so much). Then there's some indigo dyed yarn from <a href="http://www.naturalborndyers.com/">Natural Born Dyers</a>, which I probably picked up from them at a show we were both exhibiting at. On the right are two balls of sock yarn which have long since been wound and lost labels, though I remember the top one is indigo-dyed too. It crocked on to my hands as I was knitting it.</p><p>So I chose the navy one for the first pattern in the club, one named after Elizabeth Montagu. No point saying anything about her here; Kate has done as excellent job in her relevant blog post. I do love a yarn club where you actually learn something. Knitting is a wonderful and fascinating thing, but far more so if it's related out to other things such as history or material culture.</p><p>I used 2.75mm needles - a bit thick for socks normally, but this yarn is on the thicker side of 4ply and still made a dense, cushy fabric. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwAHOu6_eKk/YLEprEVIJRI/AAAAAAAAB_I/bydFsTI_6eojB1NnwwiAh0kELnjjsPSMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210524_085439.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1793" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwAHOu6_eKk/YLEprEVIJRI/AAAAAAAAB_I/bydFsTI_6eojB1NnwwiAh0kELnjjsPSMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210524_085439.jpg" /></a></p><p>And this is how much yarn I had left after both socks had been knitted up to their heels. Not much. I've done this yarn-juggling before.</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HQlJXifxbyM/YLEpq0Zd7-I/AAAAAAAAB_E/aovTKhLUJ8IzlnyA8wgHKO7r-P3WGyBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210527_074412.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HQlJXifxbyM/YLEpq0Zd7-I/AAAAAAAAB_E/aovTKhLUJ8IzlnyA8wgHKO7r-P3WGyBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210527_074412.jpg" /></a></p><p>I actually measured out the remaining yarn using my grandfather's ancient and hand-worn yardstick which just happened to be near at hand. I had 80 yards remaining, so I carefully measured back 40 yards back, broke it off and wound into one ball, then the remaining yarn was wound back to where it was still attached to its sock,</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AwLuUk5MIc8/YLEptdb1PrI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/AZNdjnAfQ74OIdbCK_-iJFnwVRtn_KenQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210527_075730.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AwLuUk5MIc8/YLEptdb1PrI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/AZNdjnAfQ74OIdbCK_-iJFnwVRtn_KenQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210527_075730.jpg" /></a></p><p>And here we are, two finished socks! I am one pattern repeat short of the sock version of the pattern (and obviously considerably short of the full stocking length, but given the girth of my well-muscled calves, I rarely wear tall socks anyway. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yj_YDqHwlX4/YLEpt1SWg_I/AAAAAAAAB_Y/v7szQaRtbXkcsDZoeETBZJ5DKv0rEpXYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210528_183211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1636" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yj_YDqHwlX4/YLEpt1SWg_I/AAAAAAAAB_Y/v7szQaRtbXkcsDZoeETBZJ5DKv0rEpXYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210528_183211.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNQmWczEDnM/YLEpt5lsTcI/AAAAAAAAB_U/JBQKeFHoY-QR754fRKM0ePtZkF_AzVvMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210528_183157.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1710" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNQmWczEDnM/YLEpt5lsTcI/AAAAAAAAB_U/JBQKeFHoY-QR754fRKM0ePtZkF_AzVvMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210528_183157.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a very handsome sock pattern; can't wait for the rest of the club. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-14696441558894181672021-05-17T11:19:00.002+01:002021-05-17T11:19:24.434+01:00Blanket finished!<p> I finished all the weaving on Friday, a week since I started making all these strips, and then thought a bit about what order they should be put together. I twisted the fringes while they were still separate, as there were a lot to get through and smaller lots seemed easier. Also, once the fringes are stabilised it's easier to handle the whole thing. </p><p>With handling, I realised that the first two strips I'd woven were packed down a bit more than the later two, so the first ones went in the middle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1uPC4MsJcHA/YKI_O3H_P0I/AAAAAAAAB-A/TnsM4W3OMwUCJ33qHI1TD4PKJMV0WhvFACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210515_103219.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1uPC4MsJcHA/YKI_O3H_P0I/AAAAAAAAB-A/TnsM4W3OMwUCJ33qHI1TD4PKJMV0WhvFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210515_103219.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are the fringes when just done, still looking a bit uneven and raw. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMj0EYRM2E0/YKI_O2OaocI/AAAAAAAAB-E/eG2Pcq9roZEIbuKTXKw-R-J6-2X_i_Z6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210515_103253.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">This is what the seams look before finishing. I stitched them in mattress stitch using the same pale beige Corriedale/alpaca yarn that is most of the weft in the last two strips, making sure that each stitch on each side took in a loop of weft as well as the outermost warp thread, for security. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-obuQ2uiDVJ0/YKJBFWSjDTI/AAAAAAAAB-o/RPnWmFF7Shc852jsua2tY7El_2b-5tfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210515_125229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-obuQ2uiDVJ0/YKJBFWSjDTI/AAAAAAAAB-o/RPnWmFF7Shc852jsua2tY7El_2b-5tfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210515_125229.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">These are the fringes after washing - amazing how they just even themselves out! </div></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-YIpeXYFwo/YKI_SAtuTAI/AAAAAAAAB-U/GD87MxZiNe0UDHce3GJt_oUBj5P5Yb_7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210516_173053.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I finished the blanket by machine washing in a 40°C woollen wash, then just hanging up to dry (it was raining outside). I may well give it another wash, just to bed it in a little, but I love how the fabric is now both weighty (because of the size of the piece) and light, because most of the yarns are woollen-spun and the fabric is still fairly open. It's much bigger than the blanket I made last summer, even though that one had five strips. Final size of this one is 1.4m wide and 2.10m long .</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gILFcdvwFaw/YKI_R8bWjfI/AAAAAAAAB-Q/lvLh7ogTAJgIyH9TW5r0pRESKocEvWK5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210516_173022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gILFcdvwFaw/YKI_R8bWjfI/AAAAAAAAB-Q/lvLh7ogTAJgIyH9TW5r0pRESKocEvWK5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210516_173022.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-4462092694198146242021-05-10T17:35:00.060+01:002021-05-10T17:58:48.297+01:00Weaving...<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tyg-m2JRMOI/YJlkxbgsvVI/AAAAAAAAB9k/4geZHco4xuwYP_MIvmomTVN7VxrqZpgrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210510_172913.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tyg-m2JRMOI/YJlkxbgsvVI/AAAAAAAAB9k/4geZHco4xuwYP_MIvmomTVN7VxrqZpgrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210510_172913.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;">I've had my rigid heddle loom since the last Yarndale - 2019. I put it together in January 2020 and played with it a bit early last year.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is the first big thing I made, a blanket from five narrower strips of fabric, woven from random (mostly handspun) yarn. In fact the main reason I wanted a RH was to use up all the handspun I have, most of which was spun for specific purposes but then never got used for that purpose. Nothing sadder than once-loved yarn slowly sinking in stash.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Some of the strips in this I really love, some I don't. But it's a lovely lightweight and very warm blanket thing, and I use it on my bed in the winter. </div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQOu8suhuTI/YJlgfDXuNcI/AAAAAAAAB9I/JKE1HdwuBpwBAYMpfso_mOnCPm7BHccFACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210510_173042.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1711" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQOu8suhuTI/YJlgfDXuNcI/AAAAAAAAB9I/JKE1HdwuBpwBAYMpfso_mOnCPm7BHccFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210510_173042.jpg" /></a>So I had dug into the bag of random (mostly) handspun yarn I'd put aside for weaving last summer, and dug some more out. There'd been a piece of weaving on the RH since the end of last year, but it wasn't working out and I didn't like it so I cut off and binned the entire warp and only bothered keeping the four inches or so of actual fabric. That piece was stopping me getting anything else done, so out it went! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I've warped up the RH three times for the current project at the point of this photograph, so the pile is much depleted - that pale lilac, for example, was an enormous ball at the start. Having learned from the first project (and the few shawls and scarves I did last summer), I aim for random consistency with the warp; the same yarns but in different orders. But I try to keep the same one to the edges as it helps to disguise the seams at the end. <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-folPnaS5Nzw/YJlgnq2NTsI/AAAAAAAAB9M/3x8TWHZiDaU8lKfY-8Ua8Iv00_eRpJetgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210510_173012.jpg" width="320" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These are the two strips I've woven since Friday afternoon. I warp them up with the RH bolted to my computer table/yarn box across the room to a post which was on the sideboard, but after it fell off twice with half a warp on it, it's now on a chair. Lower but more secure. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The weft started off as several large balls of random creamy-beige yarn (spun so long ago I don't remember what it is), but then I ran out, so I used some greeny-dyed Romney (I think).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1659" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iad4SD36pyk/YJlgnpX-ddI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/JwLgqCKr0WwqxR5M_i96YNdRlApheDzuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210510_172950.jpg" width="320" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p> The third warp is now on the RH, and I hope I have enough yarn to perhaps do another two, but certainly have enough for one more strip. I've now run out of both original weft yarns, so had a quick dive in the boxes upstairs and found several skeins of vintage handspun alpaca blend. I've got a feeling it's some pale beige alpaca and a Corriedale fleece from Olwen Veevers (Wonderwool) that I had blended together at Halifax Spinning. </p><p><br /></p><p>All the strips *should* be the same length, but I'm not precise about this - I warp over the same space in the living room, I try to tie it up with the same length and to weave right up as far as I can at the other end, but it's reasonably easy to fudge a few inches when mattress-stitching them all together at the end. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'll twist the fringes when all the strips are finished, sew them together, and then stuff in the washing machine. My machine's got a good wool wash, and it's always fun to see what comes out at the end. I lean towards woollen-spinning unless I try really hard not to, so the blankets always tend to come out very light and airy. </p><p><br /></p><p>We will see...</p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-20167185510501671802021-04-11T11:03:00.092+01:002021-04-11T11:30:07.436+01:00Away wi' the Fairies in the Springtime! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is one of my most popular colourways at the moment: Away wi' the Fairies. I love it. There are only three basic dye colours in it, but they spread and run into each other and make lots more wonderful brights as the fibre dyes. This was done on Rambouillet, for me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5WujtqfAaTE/YHLJHM2D57I/AAAAAAAAB60/4WaGjqsgJzUWga4GuJrE5N_7LBY7EBw0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_105757.jpg" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of my favourite ways of spinning a fine wool top is to break it off into staple lengths, wrap them round a thickish stick like a big knitting needle or a nostepinne, and then spin the resulting prep long draw, at speed. I don't call these rolags, as they're much denser than a true rolag and the wool fibres themselves are still in a combed aligned form. But the resulting yarn can be spun to a very high twist, pulls out to a fine yarn, and is much bouncier and more elastic than a true worsted/short draw-spun yarn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LzNTPD3zfH0/YHLKPVKnbAI/AAAAAAAAB7g/X_X2P2NmXlUxsoGlE0xn9x-hS5EL4o2cwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210402_215831.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LzNTPD3zfH0/YHLKPVKnbAI/AAAAAAAAB7g/X_X2P2NmXlUxsoGlE0xn9x-hS5EL4o2cwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210402_215831.jpg" width="320" /></a>#</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I spent an entire evening making these punis. I split the top down the middle as evenly as possible, and as each staple length was pulled off I carefully wrapped it round a 10mm knitting needle pulled it off and laid it in order in a box. And then did the same for the other half. When these are spun, they should (if the halves were even, if the punis are the same size, if my spinning is consistent) produce two matching singles that will ply together beautifully. </div></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jkr7c3VC7TE/YHLJT4dkRZI/AAAAAAAAB7I/ANBkOalJ67MOPUkbmbK_g3OFOffiD5shgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_110019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jkr7c3VC7TE/YHLJT4dkRZI/AAAAAAAAB7I/ANBkOalJ67MOPUkbmbK_g3OFOffiD5shgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_110019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I then went to bed, latish. I forgot to cover the box. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I always tell people, when I'm teaching long draw woollen spinning, that the attraction of your cat to your finished fibre prep is in exact relation to how long it took you to prepare that fibre).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-94vKKKRAbhM/YHLJUAWmDkI/AAAAAAAAB7M/uMh7KejvmMcxfC9LpWXiMwOlwCHcDN2GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_110034.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1657" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-94vKKKRAbhM/YHLJUAWmDkI/AAAAAAAAB7M/uMh7KejvmMcxfC9LpWXiMwOlwCHcDN2GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_110034.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is not the cat who sat on the fibre (I think. I have four cats). This is Goblin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I ended up making a pile of all the punis and arranging them in one long line by colour. It was fun. There was quite a lot of them. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bOXpKV8MrI4/YHLJTYwZaxI/AAAAAAAAB7E/69SO0N2ChU8MT9RA0w-UICLvX0IIjTO-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_105956.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1893" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bOXpKV8MrI4/YHLJTYwZaxI/AAAAAAAAB7E/69SO0N2ChU8MT9RA0w-UICLvX0IIjTO-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_105956.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I then split the one long colourway into four. So instead of my yarn changing colour as the original dyed top changed colour, I would end up with two singles that went from purple to magenta and then back to purple along its length. I have turned it into a mirrored gradient. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each half was laid out in a box, in order, and spun in order. And then plied. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did the plying watching a rather fabulous documentary about the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qt61">Clydesdale horse.</a> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AX8tLtisY3Q/YHLJR2fsbTI/AAAAAAAAB64/Zeaj4tqef48E7h0Us0KfqNvrQg7O-ZbOACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_105915.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1770" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AX8tLtisY3Q/YHLJR2fsbTI/AAAAAAAAB64/Zeaj4tqef48E7h0Us0KfqNvrQg7O-ZbOACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_105915.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was planning to weave this on my rigid heddle, and of course it's not going to go far by itself. I had two bobbins full of a similar yarn (undyed Rambouillet spun the same way), so I would them off and stuffed them in a dyebath of greens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course, because I'd spun these long draw and they were elastic and bouncy, the hot water revealed quite how bouncy and squishy the finished yarn was. (This also applied to the Away wi' the Fairies when I washed it after skeining.) Quite unsuitable for weaving easily. I ran all three skeins back through the wheel, tightening up the plying enormously. The photo below shows the skein in its original state and the two bobbins re-plied. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UgqnEITKf-k/YHLJSGOgROI/AAAAAAAAB7A/JIVAnJAQ8BAxfwfFhnrIabQ2M2L68dUOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_105903.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UgqnEITKf-k/YHLJSGOgROI/AAAAAAAAB7A/JIVAnJAQ8BAxfwfFhnrIabQ2M2L68dUOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_105903.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here, after re-plying and a very hot bath. When I'm finishing a yarn, whether as a single (to be used as a single) or a plied yarn, I always dunk in really hot water, too hot to put my hand in for long even in a thick rubber glove. This allows the wool fibres to relax completely and resets the twist. I tend to spin high twist yarn and the first plying balanced that, so you'd think the second plying would lead to overtwisted yarn. But woollen spun yarn will take an enormous amount of twist because of the way the fibres have space around themselves in the yarn, and there is not a trace of overtwist in the finished yarn here. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7y3iZFxT34/YHLJR-W9R4I/AAAAAAAAB68/gd7CrXbaONcjL8QsTxUfOT0G5sD0EhsNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210411_105830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1793" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D7y3iZFxT34/YHLJR-W9R4I/AAAAAAAAB68/gd7CrXbaONcjL8QsTxUfOT0G5sD0EhsNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210411_105830.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So all I need to do now is ball it up, stuff it onto the rigid heddle (cutting off the thing on it that's been there since before Christmas and isn't working) and weave it up! Still thinking about what to use as a weft though. I have a bag of a pale grey fibre blend somewhere that may work well...</div><br /><p></p><br />Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-32359472512211334072021-04-04T16:52:00.004+01:002021-04-04T17:02:06.706+01:00New Year, New Start.<p>Right, here we go. With the demise (or as good as) of Ravelry, why not revive our blogs? I used to keep this one for mainly dyeing and knitting with another one on Livejournal for everthing else, but that one's not been used for years. </p><p>There's a new post in progress on spinning a handdyed braid.</p><p>All the previous posts on fibre sales are now out of date - my last bits of fibre are up on Instagram or FB and heavily discounted. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QxEfr0L-kuQ/YGni9XnxB3I/AAAAAAAABrM/OUpgqoCwp0cu5RSoQf61LfrjCWspmqMBQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1350/mixed%2Bup%2Bpunis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QxEfr0L-kuQ/YGni9XnxB3I/AAAAAAAABrM/OUpgqoCwp0cu5RSoQf61LfrjCWspmqMBQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/mixed%2Bup%2Bpunis.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-81070879202132679682020-12-05T08:50:00.010+00:002021-02-14T17:17:43.196+00:00Freyalyn's Fibre ON SALE!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Goodness, it's nearly Christmas, and where has this weird year gone? In some ways it seems no time at all since March and the world closing in on us, and then I look in a different direction and it's so long ago I can barely remember. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've decided to have a restart of all my colours, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">so everything here is 10% and free UK postage! </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please don't leave a comment on the blog asking for fibre - I'm unable to get back in touch with you when that happens. Email me at freyalynn@yahoo.com with the one/s you'd like and I can come back to you with a price and a paypal invoice. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I shall keep the availability as up to date as possible.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Au-EXhUWszg/X8tIE5NDbqI/AAAAAAAABmc/EW7sdpZJ1AMVaHC5kv3NMYFFtyroIY0awCLcBGAsYHQ/s441/Away%252C%2Bwbfls.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="441" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Au-EXhUWszg/X8tIE5NDbqI/AAAAAAAABmc/EW7sdpZJ1AMVaHC5kv3NMYFFtyroIY0awCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Away%252C%2Bwbfls.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Both Away Wi' the Fairies now gone, sorry.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ZLREv8VgrI/X8tIGRxKabI/AAAAAAAABm0/sY43AotCNYQWxs5K986HH52oMMQGSgczACLcBGAsYHQ/s384/Fisher%2BBlue%2Bx%2B3%2Bwhite%2Bbfl.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ZLREv8VgrI/X8tIGRxKabI/AAAAAAAABm0/sY43AotCNYQWxs5K986HH52oMMQGSgczACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Fisher%2BBlue%2Bx%2B3%2Bwhite%2Bbfl.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">TOP LEFT IS NOW SOLD </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJHxcuYlaE8/X8tIGoBm_4I/AAAAAAAABm4/ijpOHGowwY0EquuQWESMalDtBbj9QyGggCLcBGAsYHQ/s508/Full%2Bcircle%2Bexbf.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="508" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJHxcuYlaE8/X8tIGoBm_4I/AAAAAAAABm4/ijpOHGowwY0EquuQWESMalDtBbj9QyGggCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Full%2Bcircle%2Bexbf.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rw-D7ITa4d0/X8tIGtTjP4I/AAAAAAAABm8/U9y6a-atvRwtmZ_kPsdCnl_XeV_Zcp9bgCLcBGAsYHQ/s304/Full%2Bcircle%2Bwbfls.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rw-D7ITa4d0/X8tIGtTjP4I/AAAAAAAABm8/U9y6a-atvRwtmZ_kPsdCnl_XeV_Zcp9bgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Full%2Bcircle%2Bwbfls.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This Full Circle now sold, sorry </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AcuaB8mvcQ4/X8tIGx5qCxI/AAAAAAAABnA/9OQgb8ESW6os3AXOlAFUABuAHr0w-oSrgCLcBGAsYHQ/s353/Gold%252C%2Bshet.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="353" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AcuaB8mvcQ4/X8tIGx5qCxI/AAAAAAAABnA/9OQgb8ESW6os3AXOlAFUABuAHr0w-oSrgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Gold%252C%2Bshet.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; 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text-align: right;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--uAX4pGD9Qw/X8tIHnMQHOI/AAAAAAAABnQ/XS_N0-RC7VUY_I9w5BxE-SlmQZ1QPVO4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s325/Macaw%252C%2Bshetland.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--uAX4pGD9Qw/X8tIHnMQHOI/AAAAAAAABnQ/XS_N0-RC7VUY_I9w5BxE-SlmQZ1QPVO4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Macaw%252C%2Bshetland.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And this one. The parrots are flying away!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvsAfqIs2Ws/X8tIH_iFZWI/AAAAAAAABnU/iLykNNW6gmo1MIb7NWNUOkRINFFijHD7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s264/Macaw%252C%2Bwbfl.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvsAfqIs2Ws/X8tIH_iFZWI/AAAAAAAABnU/iLykNNW6gmo1MIb7NWNUOkRINFFijHD7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Macaw%252C%2Bwbfl.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QxgvYH4jQC8/X8tIIKZDQqI/AAAAAAAABnY/fsG5y83JzOQBnLBjJzZQQ-ceU3gdm_U2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s283/N%2BLights%252C%2Barbon%2Bsock%2Bblend.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="283" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QxgvYH4jQC8/X8tIIKZDQqI/AAAAAAAABnY/fsG5y83JzOQBnLBjJzZQQ-ceU3gdm_U2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/N%2BLights%252C%2Barbon%2Bsock%2Bblend.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wUnZT8o1Xuo/X8tIIthe2oI/AAAAAAAABnk/NjugdU9_vEAMVI8nvqOd3JBcdUWBTVtFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s356/October%252C%2Bobfl.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="356" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wUnZT8o1Xuo/X8tIIthe2oI/AAAAAAAABnk/NjugdU9_vEAMVI8nvqOd3JBcdUWBTVtFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/October%252C%2Bobfl.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">All this Peacock now sold, I'm afraid.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-8WoGIrnOA/X8tII4bVrpI/AAAAAAAABno/GVlKPJSqutoRbtxQdZIy_u9EnXzz6qTMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s372/Peacock%252C%2Bobfl%2Bx%2B3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-8WoGIrnOA/X8tII4bVrpI/AAAAAAAABno/GVlKPJSqutoRbtxQdZIy_u9EnXzz6qTMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Peacock%252C%2Bobfl%2Bx%2B3.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tGiKN_3qHLg/X8tIJxuicxI/AAAAAAAABn4/VxTkutv8e3AQmwAubmEDlxwZi6728IG8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s390/Pinewood%252C%2Bmanx.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="281" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tGiKN_3qHLg/X8tIJxuicxI/AAAAAAAABn4/VxTkutv8e3AQmwAubmEDlxwZi6728IG8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Pinewood%252C%2Bmanx.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Lower right, Pinewood/ExBF is now sold. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gHcIsA0aR8w/X8tIJk1EbkI/AAAAAAAABn0/aNoov5wj7EoOBjjFxcfPG3YV5n4cUawtACLcBGAsYHQ/s346/Pinewood%252C%2BShetland%252C%2BExbf.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="346" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gHcIsA0aR8w/X8tIJk1EbkI/AAAAAAAABn0/aNoov5wj7EoOBjjFxcfPG3YV5n4cUawtACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Pinewood%252C%2BShetland%252C%2BExbf.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QdqipXG4sjU/X8tILTtOy2I/AAAAAAAABoY/cgHWR3GXPF4ekTAhLHyVjhkW1U8NvqJJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s369/Thistle%252C%2BDorset%2BHorn%252C%2Bsuffolk.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="369" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QdqipXG4sjU/X8tILTtOy2I/AAAAAAAABoY/cgHWR3GXPF4ekTAhLHyVjhkW1U8NvqJJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Thistle%252C%2BDorset%2BHorn%252C%2Bsuffolk.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thistle/Suffolk now sold. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A_SoQcoBDH8/X8tILl2KJmI/AAAAAAAABoc/oFOZQuah6qo3wu6edYj-PEM4HGARvMTLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s340/True%252C%2Bleft%2Bobfl%2B%25C2%25A314%252C%2Bright%2Bpgshet%2B%25C2%25A314%252C%2Btop%2Bsold.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">So just a quick post to show what I ended up doing with this colourwork sweater, after I decided I really wasn't happy with the first two pattern bands. I chopped it up! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first round of each pattern band is a plain row of one colour (these are the only rows in the entire patterning that are just one colour). So, with good light and without my glasses, I carefully ran a 2mm circular needle through about 20 stitches of the red row then unravelled/snipped the stitches below, then another 20 or so picked up and unravelled below. Eventually I got back to where I started from and the entire bottom section had been removed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At which point I reknitted the live red stitches onto my working size needle (3.25) and reknitted the ribbing downwards. In orange. I just about had enough of that gorgeous heathered orange to do a long enough ribbing, then cast off (using a very stretchy cast off) in the brighter plain orange. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5MyP4zB7X8/X5EoNZ5f7eI/AAAAAAAABlQ/YtTVQxDNdDkjhtjeS-s3eTKj7kVuWDoqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20201008_222350.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5MyP4zB7X8/X5EoNZ5f7eI/AAAAAAAABlQ/YtTVQxDNdDkjhtjeS-s3eTKj7kVuWDoqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20201008_222350.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">As you can see, the colours look much more planned and logical now. There are a three more bands above this now (I meant to do this post a week ago) and it all looks much better. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ymCUN18g8_o/X5EoV02XNOI/AAAAAAAABlU/fBhMcfhBfwojVnGQsVrEMuGHn42EtoszgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20201009_111028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ymCUN18g8_o/X5EoV02XNOI/AAAAAAAABlU/fBhMcfhBfwojVnGQsVrEMuGHn42EtoszgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20201009_111028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I didn't get any done over the last weekend as it was Britspin, but it was picked up again last night and off we go. Mind you, I have several other projects that are bumbling along in the background, or about to be picked up, so it may not grow as quickly as I'd like. </div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-1257815016743027992020-10-06T18:52:00.004+01:002020-10-06T21:56:36.226+01:00Knitting from Fair Isle, and how to get colours wrong. And right. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4S3k4z33Sk/X3yunwThhWI/AAAAAAAABkY/KPNX6oDqHo0pWD9rYEHRfN9aeIAubjP9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20201006_181806_921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4S3k4z33Sk/X3yunwThhWI/AAAAAAAABkY/KPNX6oDqHo0pWD9rYEHRfN9aeIAubjP9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20201006_181806_921.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Just a few comments on the latest thing on the needles. The other day a long awaited book arrived: <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Mati-Ventrillon/Knitting-from-Fair-Isle--15-contemporary-designs-inspired-by-tradition/25075385?gclid=CjwKCAjwq_D7BRADEiwAVMDdHq5S_WyNkIwhe8E-2zayWZ0THYrOoiZm6RG4w8Erpn0XDX9-LgahQhoCJ-oQAvD_BwE">Knitting from Fair Isle</a>, by Mati Ventrillon. Lovely thing. And I've been meaning to do something about my stash of pretty random Jamieson & Smith 2ply jumperweight yarns. These have been collected for a while, picked up from sales baskets or left over from previous projects, and I really wanted to do something about lowering the pile. (If you look in the picture below, you can see they are in a lovely wood cabinet. I can remember this from my grandparents' home in Devon when I was growing up, then in was in Mum's house for years until she gave it to me. I filled it with yarn - obviously. <br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BU2DPIkGmkU/X3yvIwaUWnI/AAAAAAAABko/59r8lqUkV1s4qD9y3IHDsKofO0uyrGMZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200927_142612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BU2DPIkGmkU/X3yvIwaUWnI/AAAAAAAABko/59r8lqUkV1s4qD9y3IHDsKofO0uyrGMZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200927_142612.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>I pretty much cast on colours at random, and the bottom two pattern bands (Mati has an interesting version of 'traditional' Fair Isle patterning, clearly based on her machine knitting - deep bands of 24 stitch repeats) were just knitted as they came, with the only proviso that the pale colours were the patterning and the darker the background.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I realised it just wasn't working. I thought about the colours for the next two bands, grouping first orange/reds and then greens, and you can see how much more clearly it shows that the patterning is actually in bands and not just generic pale squiggles.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I will do another band, in purple/blue, and then unpick the row below the first red row and knit the ribbing downwards from there. </div><div><br /></div><div>So this is an example of how random colours just don't work unless you have a carefully curated group of colours to randomly pick from first. This selection of yarn is interesting anyway; there is lots of green (no surprise to anyone who knows me) but surprisingly little grey or blue. No pink, naturally. I have now started pulling the six colours I need for each band out before I actually start the band - three pales and three darks/mediums, making sure that the contrast colour properly contrasts. It'll be interesting to see what's happening by the time I get to the top of the body.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'll probably do the sleeves together with steeks between them, just so I make sure the yarns match and I don't run out of any.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was cast on 30th September, ribbing on 2.5mm, and the body on 3.23mm (I've already broken one circ (the nice carbon-fibre one) and I'm back on the ordinary but reliable Addis).</div>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-11917123062936206062020-09-26T05:58:00.003+01:002020-09-26T05:58:46.352+01:00So much stuff is on now! <p> The world has drawn in on itself with the virus sweeping through us. Or you'd think.</p><p><br /></p><p>But so many things have opened up as we've all gone online and looked outwards, away from our immediate friends, family, and usual visits. We haven't seen much of my mother this summer, as she's split her time between her home and her 'gentleman friend' who is about five miles away in a very nice house with a tiny swimming pool. Which of course we haven't been able to use. Mark's parents have kept themselves to themselves, so we've been over there occasionally, without going in of course. I've been working from home or on furlough since April - and to be honest, have loved not having to actually spend time with people. </p><p><br /></p><p>Shetland Wool Week isn't happening as usual this year. Of course not. (Like all of Scotland, and especially the islands, people are torn between wanting visitors to keep their economies going, and not wanting visitors for fear of overloading limited medical facilities. But it's <a href="https://www.shetlandwoolweek.com/events/" target="_blank">gone online</a> this year, and some excellent events are happening in the next week. I signed up as a supporter earlier this year, and then forgot to use the discount at the various businesses until it had expired. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.lambtown.org/" target="_blank">Lambtown Wool Festival </a>is one I'll never get to in person, what with it being on the other side of the US, but this year it's gone virtual and I've booked myself on three workshops! Possibly not the most sensible idea, as I'll be finishing very late on Sunday evening and getting up early for work on Monday morning. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://yarndale.co.uk/">Yarndale i</a>s live this weekend. Wonderwool Wales was the first big wool festival (here in the UK) to be cancelled this year, so they took it online and made an excellent success out of it. Every wool show since has built on that, putting more events on, allowing vendors a little live slot... I shan't be taking part as I didn't book for Yarndale, but I'll be watching to see what happens. It will be very strange not being there; I'll miss it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not much dyeing happened here over the summer. I was at home on furlough for four months from April, but my oven broke down at the same time and I didn't really want strangers in the house to replace it. (Our hot water also conked out at the same time, but our shower heats its own water so that wasn't so vital). We had three rings on the hob working, and I have a remoska for baking, but I dye in the oven so that wasn't happening. We have a new cooker now, but of course it's a fraction smaller so my dyepans don't fit! </p><p><br /></p><p>I've never done quite as much natural dyeing as I'd like, though I have read wide around it and always have the basics in. This is a rather lovely website I've found recently: <a href="https://naturaldyes.ca/" target="_blank">Maiwa's Natural Dyes</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I've knitted more than a few tiny bunny sweaters over the summer, but no socks. And apart from a plain gansey in June and July, no large projects have been on my needles. I've cracked my rigid heddle (literally and figuratively; just before lockdown Goblin knocked it down and broke off a part, which I managed to replace but then promptly lost, but it works without and I've been churning out lots of strips of fabric from handspun yarn.) None of which I've photographed yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's still dark outside (Mark's just left for work), although it's cold and clear and not raining outside. But it's only going to get darker from this point onwards. The current <a href="https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2020/09/25/week-in-eview-this-will-be-the-winter-of-our-discontent-r" target="_blank">Week in Politics blog</a> post gives us something to think about - short but to the point. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's just before 6am, and still pitch black outside, Venus is glowing brilliantly but nearly washed out behind the overly-bright streetlamps that were put in in 2012. Yoga's another thing I've been doing this summer, so I'll set myself up and do an hour while the sky gradually lightens. It's a very different feel, doing my practice in a dark room as the dawn barely begins, to the brilliant sun I had only a few month ago. Goblin and Sirius often participate. </p>Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-61665829302331501682020-05-31T21:24:00.001+01:002020-06-01T13:22:43.477+01:00Summer of Gansey kalAll the ideas I had for the next blog post. I have photographs and yarn and bits for one of different types of spinning from top, but it's still not sorted through in my mind, so I'll continue to look at the little skeins hanging up on the creel for a while yet.<br />
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So - there's a gansey kal going on this summer, over at the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/groups/guernseys-ganseys-knit-frocks---fishermens-sweaters" target="_blank">Guernseys, Ganseys and Knit-frocks</a> group on Ravelry. I have more than a few things already on the go*, but I joined in.<br />
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I discovered the Manx gansey a few years ago - there's one example in the Isle of Man museum, and when I contacted the museum for more information, they very kindly send me a scan of <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/manx-gansey" target="_blank">a pattern for the gansey.</a> I've subsequently (with permission) uploaded that to Ravelry, as the book is long since out of print.<br />
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The pattern itself is slightly more elaborate than the photograph here, from the museum. This image shows a very plain gansey, mostly knitted in navy gansey-tytpe yarn, which looks to be naturally-dyed with indigo given the variation in colour. The sleeves are grey, which along with the repairs and hard-wear to the gansey itself, make me thing they are replacement sleeves when the original ones were worn and fraying.<br />
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There is ribbing from the upper waist upwards on the body leading straight into the neck, and for the top few inches on the sleeves. The cuffs, welt and collar are all in double rib, finished with a few rounds of stocking stitch.<br />
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I can't find an example of the pattern knitted up. There is some difference between the gansey photograph above and the pattern - there is no welt to the body, just straight into stocking stitch. The ribbing starts much higher on the body and there there are a few horizontal ribs between the stocking stitch and the double rib on the body and sleeves. I have found myself wondering if there was one another gansey in the museum once, which would explain the differences.<br />
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For the gansey kal I thought I'd knit this pattern exactly as written, insofar as it makes sense. The pattern gives a tension but no needle size or yarn. But 7sts to the inch/28sts to 10cm is a good gansey-type gauge, and would give a sweater of about 38". I'm planning to do a slightly looser gauge, which will be easier on my hands, a bit quicker, and give a bigger finished sweater.<br />
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This is my stash of gansey yarn (part of the general reorganisation shortly after I was put on furlough from work):<br />
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This is what the two smaller cones of the Frangipani Herring Girl Pink turned into:<br />
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I don't do pink. I got these four cones of pink Frangipani cheap a while ago, as they've been stored in daylight at some point, and faded. So on Thursday I wound it into four skeins of about 180g each and spent the afternoon layering up navy and teal-green to give me this sea colour. It would probably have been easier to dye the white up, but I did buy the pink to dye anyway, and I thought the pink would add a nice warmth under the blue-green, which indeed it has done.<br />
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It's after nine on Sunday night. I shall put the colourwork shawl in Millarochy Tweed aside for the time being (but not for long, there's a lot to do for it and it has to be finished soon) and play with needle sizes tonight.<br />
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Quick update on Monday morning - swatch to see how the 3mm needles work. This swatch has been washed with soap and cold water, dried and measured, and then chucked in a 30 degree wool wash with a sweater. It's snugged up slightly, and the new gauge will give a final sweater size of about 42". Which will of course go smaller with a hotter machine wash. Nice easy fabric to knit too.<br />
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*Things on the go: Mark's peacoat, which only needs sleeves and lining and buttons attached, but it's hot and he won't need it for months; aforementioned colourwork shawl for a Kate Davies Design challenge; weaving that needs to be finished and off the rigid heddle loom so I can put something else on it that i've been asked to do, but there's 300g of spinning to be done for that other thing too.Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-5257631696926443342020-04-25T11:56:00.002+01:002020-05-20T18:48:44.621+01:00Virtual Wonderwool - bunnies in jumpers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
These are all my lovely little bunnies in their handknitted jumpers. The bunnies themselves are safe for children with embroidered eyes and no hard parts, though they do squeak if squeezed. </div>
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All are £20. Again, message me on FB or email freyalynn@yahoo.com with your email and I will respond with a final price including postage and Paypal invoice. </div>
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Bunny left wearing a rainbow sweater knitted from Shetland jumper-weight yarn NOW SOLD </div>
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Both these bunnies are in handspun sweaters - on the left is my Away Wi' the Fairies SOLD, </div>
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on the right is Northern Lights over dark grey Shetland. </div>
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Both handspun again - on the left is cashmere in natural pale grey and dyed green, </div>
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on the right is a yoke in Summer and the sweater in a Manx blend wool SOLD. </div>
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Both these sweaters are knitted from handspun merino d'Arles wool dyed green and embroidered with Shetland yarn. </div>
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All handspun again, a scrap of yellow wool and grey Shetland on the left, </div>
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and indigo-dyed blue and madder orange on the right SOLD.</div>
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Slightly bigger bunny this time, but still child-friendly. This one's sweater is in my Flamingo colourway sock yarn. </div>
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Northern Lights, Polwarth/merino blend, £16 SOLD </div>
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Full Circle (300g), white bfl silk, £48</div>
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Away Wi' The Fairies gradient, oatmeal bfl, £15 NOW SOLD </div>
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Away Wi' The Fairies, oatmeal bfl silk x 1, £16 each BOTH SOLD </div>
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Away Wi' The Fairies, pale grey Shetland, £14 SOLD </div>
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Away Wi' The Fairies, white bfl silk x 1, £16 each ONE SOLD </div>
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Dryad gradient, oatmeal bfl, £15</div>
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Dryad, grey Shetland £14, white bfl £15</div>
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Falling Leaves gradient,<br />
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Exmoor Blueface £14 SOLD </div>
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Pinewood, top Manx £14<br />
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Apple, oatmeal bfl x 1, £14 each BOTH SOLD </div>
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October gradient,<br />
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Spring Green, white Shetland, £14</div>
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Birchbark, white bfl, £14 SOLD </div>
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Oakleaf, top Merino d'Arles NOW SOLD,<br />
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Oak King, oatmeal bfl and white bfl, £15 each BOTH NOW SOLD </div>
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Thistle, left gradient Dorset Horn £14, right Suffolk £13</div>
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Sea Glass, white Polwarth, £15<br />
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Sea Glass gradient, oatmeal bfl, £15</div>
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Faerie spring gradient, white Polwarth, £15</div>
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Fine alpaca, £9 each </div>
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Fine alpaca £9 each </div>
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Baby alpaca, £10 each </div>
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Grey alpaca (lovely fibre, slightly felted) £8 each</div>
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Fine Shetland fleece, £8</div>
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Kerry Hill fleece, £7 each ONE SOLD </div>
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Jacob shearing fleece, £8 each TOP TWO, BOTTOM RIGHT SOLD </div>
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Littleheart gradient, pale grey Shetland, £14 SOLD </div>
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Kingfisher, left white bfl silk £16 SOLD , right Devonia blend £14</div>
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Full Circle (each 300g), oatmeal bfl silk £48 SOLD , Exmoor Blueface £42</div>
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Hellebore, lower left Devonia blend £14</div>
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Fisher Blue, white bfl, £15 (lower one is gradient)</div>
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Festival, top white bfl silk £16, lower oatmeal bfl £15</div>
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Copper, Southdown, £14 SOLD </div>
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Macaw, pale grey Shetland £14</div>
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Vivien, top oatmeal bfl £14 SOLD , bottom Dorset Horn £13</div>
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Goldmine, Exmoor Blueface, £14</div>
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Solstice, bottom Dorset Horn £14</div>
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Selkie, left oatmeal bfl £15 NOW SOLD</div>
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white bfl silk £16 NOW SOLD </div>
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pale grey Shetland £14 NOW SOLD </div>
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Solstice gradient, oatmeal bfl, white Shetland, £14 each </div>
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True, top oatmeal bfl silk £15 SOLD , left oatmeal bfl £14, right page grey Shetland £14</div>
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Gold, white Shetland, £12 each ONE SOLD </div>
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Dewi, white bfl, £12</div>
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Festival, white Shetland £13</div>
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Vivien gradient, oatmeal bfl, £14 NOW SOLD </div>
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Macaw, white bfl, £14</div>
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Dragonfly, white bfl silk, £16 SOLD </div>
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All yarn is in 100g hanks. I have two sorts of sock yarn: high twist 100% bfl which is 365m to the skein, and bfl/Donegal nep which is 400m to the skein. Both are £15 each.</div>
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Postage will be calculated on final weight. Please message me on FB or email freyalynn@yahoo.com, including your email, and I will email you back with total price and a paypal invoice. </div>
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Prince Hal, bfl, x 3 SOLD </div>
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Warrior Scarlet, bfl SOLD </div>
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Foxglove, Donegal nep SOLD</div>
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Flamingo, Donegal nep SOLD </div>
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Half Moon, two from the same dye vat, one from a different one, all bfl</div>
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MATCHED PAIR SOLD </div>
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Selkie bfl x 3</div>
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Triton on Donegal nep SOLD </div>
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There was the option to move it to later in the year, but that clashed with Perth Yarn Festival. So no Wonderwool.<br />
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I was both vending and teaching there this year. I have already been asked if I'm quite happy to allow my teaching to carry over to 2021, and of course I am. I hope every who's booked into my course on both days (spindle spinning) will be happy to do this too.<br />
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I have several guilds lined up this year for workshops. One is is April - I haven't heard back from them but I'm confident they will be cancelling their workshop. Those later in the year are still in place, but we will see what the situation is like nearer the time. Please get in touch if you would like to book something with me, this year or next.<br />
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Leeds Wool Festival, at Armley Museum in early June, has not yet been cancelled. That's my only other show this year. It might be very quiet.<br />
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I don't have an online shop as such. Given the present situation, and lack of selling opportunities, I'm planning to start photographing all my hand-dyed fibre and yarns and post them up in blog posts. If anyone likes the look of something, they can email me and we can arrange purchase and postage.<br />
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Luckily for me (and yes, I realise how lucky this makes me in this community) my day job will continue. I work for a company that makes and sells online training courses, and they're sending us all home this week. Some people have company laptops - I don't, so I have boxes to take my tower, keyboard and one of my monitors home this afternoon. I've cleared a table in my workroom and will be WFH from tomorrow morning. It's chilly up there (no heating) so huge amounts of shawls and wraps and socks and hats (all hand knitted) will be worn. Not to mention cats draped appropriately.<br />
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When we get a decent bit of bright light, I shall start photographing. Organisation will happen soon - I think I'll probably group by wool type first, then colour. I have lots of postage bags, and we have a local post office that I can rush in and rush out of, keeping my distance!<br />
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Baking will happen, I'm sure. Probably a bit of dyeing, especially if someone wants a particular colourway or fibre. And knitting - lots of knitting. A cat broke my rigid heddle loom the other week and I'm awaiting a spare part.<br />
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This is what it looked like yesterday - all the strips mattress-stitched together but not washed. I know I need to work on the selvedges; I was working so hard to make them not pull in at all I have let them a little slack. Some of this vanished in the machine wash.</div>
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And this is the finished cloth. Much irregularity has been evened out, though not completely as ideally I should have used a thicker weft. But I didn't want the grey to dull the brilliant warp threads too much.</div>
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This is exactly what I wanted to make with the RH loom - plain cloth using handspun yarn. I could get all excited about using two heddles at once and making twill, but not just yet. I have a large bag of more 'random handspun' that I've trawled out of various boxes and bags, and intend to make more strips for blankets, throws or shawls. And I have really interesting ideas about using my own handdyed fibres to get different effects. </div>
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(Keep equipment out of the way of the dogs. I've lost one shuttle to their teeth, and the new heddle is slightly munched on one corner. From their point of view, these are just sticks - and why would I have sticks indoors if not for them?</div>
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This is the spinning for a Sarah-Dippitty skirt, which I have been thinking about it ever since Sarah <a href="https://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/blog/sarah-dippity" target="_blank">Swett has been blogging</a> about it. I shall probably do a quick short one with commercial yarn first, but this stuff is on the go for a long one. It's a fleece I bought at Wonderwool 2017 from Olga Veever's flock of Corriedales. It's a fairly short and very soft fleece in a beautiful warm dark brown. I drumcarded it, leaving in the bleached tips which have left rather nice neps in the finished two ply yarn. Combing it would no doubt have made a darker smoother yarn, but I wanted a very light open yarn with lots of yardage, so a woollen prep spun long draw gave me exactly what I needed. There is a lot of twist here, both in the single and even more in the ply. Once I've spun it all up (apart from a double handful of fleece which I've left to comb and spin for the sewing up) I shall sample. Sampling is fun!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And this is my new toy. I treated myself to a narrow rigid heddle loom (the Ashford one) from The Threshing Barn at Yarndale last year. (I had one years ago, but it was the wide one and was just too big to get out and use easily in my somewhat full and cramped flat, so I sold it on.) This is a narrow one, and it was finally pulled out and played with.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I dug into the various boxes of handspun stash and hauled out a random assortment, and wove five narrow strips. These aren't the full width of the heddle (I left about 10 slots each side) but it was enough to play with. The length is from the small table in front of my chair to the dresser on the other side of the living room. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And I have more yarn. Lots more yarn. This could get addictive. (I'm currently sitting with this round my shoulders as I'm about to cast on a hat* (having taken the boyz out for a walk in the cold and frost this morning, I had a shower (brrr!) and am currently in my dressing gown. It's ceilidh night tonight so no point getting dressed until we go out).</span><br />
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*The hat is Liz Lovick's <a href="https://northernlace.co.uk/2020/01/17/australia-ablaze-beanie/" target="_blank">Australia Ablaze</a>. Really, lots of us should be buying the pattern and making it.</div>
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As seems to have become a tradition over the last few years, I have come down with a cold just after finishing work for the year. For the last year I've been working four days a week only, and because I don't work Fridays I don't have to take Fridays as a holiday when I do wool shows. So I have had far more holiday this year than I've had for years - I'm not due back at work until Monday 6th January. Plenty of time of languish with a cold instead of running, sewing and knitting.</div>
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The main knitting as of late has been my Carousel Caps. I've now done six of them: three with carousel horses and three with unicorns. All commissions, they've gone out into the wide world and I haven't got one for myself. I really think I ought to make myself a unicorn cap! </div>
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Unicorn caps have a star on the top, the carousels have a lines spirally inwards.</div>
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The colours in these hats are from my Away Wi' The Fairies colourway on white BFL/silk, which has worked so well. The black/grey background started off at J&S Supreme, but the latter few have been Kauni Effetgarn. Once it's had a good wash and block the fabric is gorgeously soft and squishy.</div>
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I've developed a tradition of knitting tiny little socks for people in my team at work. This year I'm in a completely different team, so four new socks were needed this year.</div>
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I am intending to cast on something big and complicated over my days off, and sew a pea jacket for Mark, and do lots of creative things. Nothing has happened yet.</div>
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A few days ago we went up to Grasmere for a talk at the Wordsworth Trust. There was snow on them there tops, and it was very windy, driving ribbons of hail across the valleys. So beautiful, but Hector was convinced we were torturing him with the cold and damp. Arthur couldn't wait to jump in the mere again.</div>
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For the first time in quite few years, I've got all of my long-collected Yule decorations out and up. I've cleared the creel off everything that usually hangs off it, and fastened up rows of reindeer, bears, trees and stars, with the odd robin, dog, and various woodland creatures.</div>
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This little chap was new last year. Many of these come from Salts Mill Christmas shop, but I keep my eyes open and find all sorts of things in odd places. Museums are good sources.</div>
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This tree was bought two years ago from a charity shop in Ilkley. It stays up all year, but is particularly appropriate at this time of year. Mum found me the five green glass drops.</div>
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I took the boyz into Buck Wood this lunchtime to gather holly and ivy, which I tuck behind the big mirror and thread through with lights. It's something I really enjoy seeing; greenery in the house is a good thing at this time of year. I thanked each tree or plant as I clipped a branch, and I'll take it all back to the woods early next year. This was Arthur, demonstrating that he actually knows what 'Stay!' means.It was horribly muddy underfoot, and the river was high.</div>
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Sunrise was supposedly 8.23 this morning, but as we're so low down in the Aire valley, with a hill to the east, from late October to February the time sunlight reaches us it's an hour later. And we have Baildon Moor to our west, so we lose direct sunlight quite some time before official sunset at 15.47. One of these days I'd really like to live somewhere that's open to the west.</div>
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Solstice blessings to all; let's hope we all do better than expected before the next one.</div>
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A month after the event, some assorted photos of my visit to Leiden for the Knitting History Forum's event on the Texel Stocking, several trips to the Textile Research Centre, and a wander around Leiden.</div>
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There was a fascinating exhibition on socks at the Centre, tying in to the conference which was mainly about the Texel Silk Stocking project, which I got a good wander around on the Friday afternoon on our day of arrival. On the Monday afternoon (nearlyeverything in Leiden is closed on Monday) I spend several hours sewing labels on new arrivals for the collection, and gawping in wonder at the Leiden Hat and a tiny fragment of carbonised textile from Catal Huyuk.</div>
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I was perhaps a little too tired to make the most of it. In October I'd had something on or been away for nearly every weekend, and it all got away from me somewhat. A November catching up with myself was rather necessary (and probably why this post didn't even get done until December).</div>
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I am currently in the throes of churning out a handful of hats with either carousel horses or unicorns on them - fun, but time-consuming. We were at a wonderful and touching gig in Halifax's Square Chapel last night, O'Hooley & Tidow, and this evening we're off to the very different Peatbog Fairies in Settle Victoria Hall. I'm knitting and spinning quietly this morning, enjoying the morning when I get the sun in our living room.</div>
Freyalynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540596535892204235.post-89482014682148855902019-10-31T18:56:00.001+00:002019-10-31T18:56:55.669+00:00Carousel cap, Edinburgh and archaeology. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So this is the Carousel Cap I was working on the other week. I'm really pleased with how this has come out, especially fabric-wise. The J&S Supreme blooms beautifully with a bath in very hot water and a good rub on itself. The BFL/silk shines against the matte of the Shetland. This one is being traded with a friend; I've already got an offer of a bottle of nice gin in exchange for another one but with unicorns instead. (I think I want one with unicorns too).</div>
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Last weekend we had a furiously fast visit to Edinburgh, staying in our usual flat on Easter Road, and wishing we'd brought the dogs too this time. The flat is dog friendly, albeit on the third floor, which is why we chose it originally. (We've been going to it since EYF in 2016).</div>
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The main reason for going was the Late Prehistoric Group's conference on Crafting Identities on Saturday, but I also really wanted to see the National Museum's Wild and Romantic exhibition. We scorched up the motorway and the A7, getting there for not long after 11, and after dumping stuff in the flat (uncleaned, but we get leeway as we've been going so long) charged up the hill.</div>
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Excellent exhibition. As you'd expect really. A wonderful overview of how Scotland's become regarded as the wild and romantic country par excellence since the 18C.</div>
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There was clothing, in good enough light and in a small enough case that you could get a really close look.</div>
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There was a very old suit of tartan that is supposed to have been booty from Culloden (very small, and different tartan/fabric for the hose and jacket), that wonderful 18C wedding dress that's been worn by every bride in the family since it was made, and I subscribed to the crowdfunder when it was replicated in a day at the museum earlier in the year), and various jackets and costumes right up to the 'classic Victorian Scottiana'.</div>
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And some of the random stuff was interesting too. More than one of the cartoons satirising Scotland from the mid 18C to the early 19C showed Scotsmen like this - tartan or checked jackets but a plain plaid/kilt, yet now we think of the jacket/top being a plain wool and the kilt always tartan. </div>
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I could have spent far longer at the exhibition, but we had to meet someone off a train. And then we were tired, so went back to the flat for lots of tea. And a yummy meal at the Mash Tun just downstairs - local, good value, excellent food, lots of gin and whisky.</div>
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After the conference on Saturday, which was all day and such a pity to be inside on such a gloriously clear and chilly Autumn day, I met Mark at the Deacon Brodie's. It was furiously cold and breezy (Mark had bought me a beautiful Black Watch blanket as a late birthday present, so I wrapped myself in tartan wool and was happy) and this was the view back down the Royal Mile, all the way to the Firth, the last of the orange sunlight just catching the top of St Giles.</div>
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Autumn is firmly upon us. Some trees are nearly bare and I've hardly noticed the leaves changing on some. I could really do with a weekend at home, as before Edinburgh we were charging around to Durham and Grasmere. But this weekend (in fact, ridiculously early tomorrow morning) I'm off with a friend to Leiden for the Historic Knitting Group's conference. Which is going to be vastly interesting, and I should manage to get visits in to the Textile Research Centre (normally closed on Friday, but we have contacts!), plus the Weavers' House on Sunday afternoon, and hopefully the Archaeology Museum in Leiden on Sunday morning. Our flight home is late on Monday, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed we can manage the Rijksmuseum on Monday.</div>
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Phew. And then I'm teaching at York Guild in a fortnight and need to knit up a beaded yarn I spun weeks ago before that. </div>
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