@truenorthdi
I just live to be doing things with my hands- anything with fibre; I enjoy gardening and I dabble in music and play clarinet in a concert band, and push out a few tunes on the piano; and cooking. But mostly I’m doing fun things with fibre
I’ve been doing a bit of pre Christmas craft.
Hand blended/hand dyed fibres, and hand spun art yarn, and hand spun yarn around a length of fairy lights.
It’s a great way to use left over fibre and art yarn into something workable, and ends up as a great Christmas decoration/present.
Fresh off the press.
Shifting Seasons “Awakening Spring’ set of tea towels.
Pattern and yarn by @cotton Clouds Weaving Community.
Hand woven tea towels are just the best.
I’m doing a little saffron’ fun spin. I have three batted I hand dyed, and blended to give a magical saffron look.
Corriedale-silk.
Thick-thin spun and ready for spiral-beehive plying.
Lots of squishy loveliness.
Thanks. I’m in New Zealand, and wooden garden beds are not treated and they rot out in about 5 yrs.
I’ve seen a few shops are selling the metal ones like yours. I might look into it more.
I love my wee flying dragon ❤️
How do you find those metal garden beds? Better than wooden ones? Better price?
I’m hoping I can fit this purchase into my budget at some stage soon 😉
Fab colours!❤️
My latest spinning weaving project finished.
Hand spun alpaca for warp; hand spun polwarth-silk.
Hand spun matching art yarn used in clasp weft technique.
Ideas for this rolled over as I went along. Combined knitting and crochet for neck, insert and frill cuffs.
Ashford traveller loom, RH loom
It really is. I’m thinking about a scarf- knitted lacy style or woven
That must beat tying up our wrists and cutting blood supply to the middle finger!! On my to get list!! ❤️
It looks so silky ❤️
I’ve recently been given a lend of a Majacraft Suzie wheel with the aura flyer. I’ve spun some very fine alpaca, and plied some of that with pāua rayon thread. Super fine+++. It’s a lovely spinning wheel, and definitely has me spinning finer.
Next up will be 2 ply alpaca fine & art yarn- woo-hoo
The latest project off my RH loom.
Warp yarn - commercial alpaca
Weft- hand dyed/hand spun art yarn; hand spun Romney (3 different coloured fleece fibre given as part of a fibre group challenge).
Art yarn woven in clasp weft technique.
The cushion back is plain tabby weave.
It’s so nice.
Spin Together week has just finished. I didn’t get a lot of time, but I managed to spin up one skein of fancy cable ply. Hand dyed; blended on the Majacraft hackle; strung with beads; auto wrapped in gold thread.
Fabulous. How many grams approx do you get off the hackle when you do a blend like that?
Finally finished a small spinning & knitting project with some of my alpaca fibre. Gifting to an NZ Alpaca project. Med br- dark br roan barbers pole spin. Super soft
Wow- that’s gorgeous , Suzy ❤️❤️
It’s a bit frustrating you can only use a certain number of characters. 😉 trying to use less words 😂
At last I’ve finished a lovely spin of some beautiful polwarth-silk fibre from Fiberartemis. I did a small spin of beehives, for a bit of accent, and the rest in fingering weight yarn. I am pondering the idea of weaving it into a garment? Or maybe knit something. Maybe with light fawn alpaca stripe?
Hubby and I have very recently moved house, and I’m slowly setting my large two- roomed craft space, and also set up a wee show room in the house.
I’ve finally banged to pull something off the loom-two fingertip towns
#fiberygoodness I’m looking forward to seeing how this network turns out.