From processing fleece to knitting with handspun, and everything in between.
No colour in today’s Sock Study. Think of it as a palette cleanser between a whole year of studying analogous colourways, before I (eventually) get into spinning complementary colourways. Today, I share with you something completely different! Qiviut blend sock yarn. Oh this stuff! I esplain. No, is too much. I sum up. It started … More Sock (Colour) Study – Fingram Qiviut Blend Cabled Sock Yarn
Do you ever find it difficult to get into a particular mode of communication? It can’t just be me. When I’m on Facebook too much, I start thinking in Facebook statuses. When I read too much of a particular author, I start thinking in their words. Right now, I’m getting really into planning and making … More SCS+BCS: Blue-Green Top Socks
Today’s monthly round-up is brought to you by exhaustion, distraction, overwhelm, phone pictures, and the manifest prognostications of burnout. In other words, I’m going to be complaining today. I have a sermon and an article to write this afternoon, but I find my writing gets a lot better if I can work out my grumpiness … More November 2022 Round-Up: Work, Work, Work, and Play
October is the month that started with one last little harvest from our garden: And ended with a blizzard. We didn’t actually go trick-or-treating in that. We went the day after, when it was still -18 with winds 30 kph gusting 50, wind chill in the -30s. Ugh. Gotta work for your candy. There’s been … More October 2022 Round-Up: It Got Cold Fast
Let’s see if I can find my way back to the beginning of the story of this shawl. The year was 2013. The month was August or September, I forget which. Stringbean, then a tiny six-month old, had been in the hospital with a UTI. Being a new mother left me feeling completely shattered, all … More Dooner’s Girasole
September was the month where things really started rolling for me, but what did not really start rolling was… Dooner’s preschool. Also, we spent a good portion of the month with at least one of us battling the same cold. We’re hoping to all go to church together tomorrow for the first time after five … More September 2022 Roundup: All the New Things
Okay, this is really the last sock spin from the amazing Breed & Color Study put together by Rachel Smith and dyed by Katrina Stewart. Not the last post, obviously; I still need to knit the socks! But it feels amazing to have spun this pound of fiber over the last several months, and have … More SCS+BCS: Analogous-Complementary Combo
For the next sock + color study, I give you yet another pair of sock yarns, spun from the Hill Radnor of our Wool n’ Spinning Breed and Color Study. I spun these yarns exactly like the blue pair, because I wanted a pretty precise comparison of how the colors worked differently when mixed in … More SCS+BCS: Analogous Red-Orange Radnor Top
Do you love August? I can’t say I have a strong affection for it, but I think that’s because I’m in general a high strung person, and that sometimes makes it hard for me to enjoy good things. I’m feeling a little stressed today, but as I look back through the pictures of everything we … More August 2022 Round-Up: Gear Switching
Hi guys! It feels like I haven’t been spinning a lot since I got back from vacation in June. My friend Alide has been my saving grace. Almost every Tuesday night, we’ve been spinning out at her cabin, and that’s kept me going. Just on those Tuesday nights, I’ve managed my next sock spin. These … More SCS+BCS: Analogous Blue-Green Top
Osborn Fiber Studio 