Since I went to the trouble of making these last four samples for the 51 Yarns SAL with the same singles from the same fiver, I thought I’d take a moment to compare how they turned out. Grist: Surprising graph, right? Not surprising that I made one, cuz I’m a big nerd, but surprising what’s … More Pause Button: Simple Structures
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. (Yes, I skipped #21! I’ll come back to that one in a while.) Now the structures start to deviate from the norm. You might wonder why we … More 22 of 51 Yarns: Cabled
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. If the 2-ply and 3-ply are the most normal of yarns, 5-ply is one of the most unusual. I can honestly say I’ve never spun one before. … More 20 of 51 Yarns: 5-Ply
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. It’s hard to know what to say in this post. The 3-ply yarn is, if possible, even more standard and vanilla than the 2-ply. Another handspinner might … More 19 of 51 Yarns: 3 Ply
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. OK, It’s catch up time! Here we go. In this study, it’s fun sometimes to group several samples together and spin with the same fiber for direct … More 18 of 51 Yarns: 2-ply
I was a bit at a loss for what to post about for the 12th day of Christmas, when Jared suggested I post about his homemade gift. It’s not a towel – it’s not even made of yarn – but it’s pretty special all the same. Jared and I certainly can read Inuktitut syllabics, but … More TTofC: Twelve Pages of Collects
OK, that’s a stretch, but it sure felt like a lot of finishing. I thought I’d take today to talk a little bit about finishing the Twelve Fourteen Towels of Christmas. Once I finished weaving off the last towel, I had an impressive stack of unfinished weaves stacked in a corner of the counter. I … More TTofC: Eleven Miles of Finishing
Surprise! This bit of Christmas knitting is not a towel at all, but a scarf. After completing the 201 class, I said to myself, I’m on a roll! Why stop? So I started Liz Gipson’s 301 class on working with pick up sticks. The 301 class introduces you to weaving with a pickup stitck, which … More TTofC: Ten Pickup Patterns
Having reflected on what 2019 brought, what am I hoping for during a new year? A new decade? Not goals or aspirations, per se, but starting points: hopes, dreams, and prayers. I made a list of “make 9s” in my journal, and almost immediately trashed it. It made me hyperventilate a little. There’s no way … More Step into 2020
What I neglected to mention yesterday is that the log cabin pattern is part of a family of patterns called “color and weave.” Whenever you use changing colors in the warp and weft together to make a pattern, that’s color and weave. I think it has to be plain weave? I’m not the expert here. … More TTofC: Eight Pairs of Patterns
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