Blue Faced Leicester

OK, now I get it.  I have heard folks on-line gush about BFL (that’s Blue Faced Leicester if you have not come up against the term before) and I wondered about it.  Until now that is, I scored some that was hand dyed by the ever lovely Mandie of Ewe Give Me The Knits! fame.  [...]

I finally did it!

I got a tetanus shot, whoo!  Yeah, the same one I have been putting off since mid September last year.  I am a huge wuss, it goes without saying.  I knew I’d be fine, but I am unreasonably fearful of needles.  Unfortunately knowing just how unreasonable it is, hasn’t made it go away yet.  Not [...]

New tools, WIPs and yarn. PIC HEAVY

Meet Hank everyone.

…and just in case you weren’t sure just which Henry I named it for…

I am certain you will agree that Hank sounds more yarny than Henry   The bust was one of my Christmas presents, by the way.
I promised to show off my new drop spindles too, so here they are.

Paua shell above, [...]

No pics yet :-(

Well, I am back from my Christmas break.  I hope you all had a great holiday, with at least a little rest in there somewhere.  Mine was quite restive, I caught up on a lot of reading, watching, crafting and more reading.  I did manage to get my new spinning wheel to work.  He has been [...]

Whoooo hoooo!!

I haven’t seen it yet, so no pics and I really don’t have time left today for blogging…..
but I just got word, Dad has bought me a spinning wheel and dropped it on my front porch for me.  Gah!  It is gonna take sooooooo long to get home today

Where to start?

Gah!  I am so behind I have no idea where to start.  ummm… here’s a picture

Yeah, I know, that was lame.  I suppose I should tell you all what on earth happened, ‘cos I didn’t fall off the face of the earth.  Yeah, it has been a long time since I last posted, much longer [...]

Pumpkin Bom

Introducing my first ever handspun yarn, Pumpkin Bom.  She is a little uneven, but she is fabulous, as far as I am concerned. 

I plied it, well, because that seemed like it would be much easier than the spinning so I figured ‘why not?’.  I think I was right.  It did my very overspun singles a world [...]