FINALLY, Pre-orders are up here for Twist & Knit: A Dozen Knitted Patterns for Handspun, Hand-dyed and One-of-a-kind Yarns. Or if you’re interested, I’m selling limited edition hand-sewn hard-bound copies of the book here.
Every knitter knows the frustration of running out of yarn. This nagging fear is compounded when the yarn is one-of-a-kind [...]
I wanted to do another few patterns that would be good for handspun, to compliment Cleite (which I will eventually put in a compilation, but can’t yet due to contractual restrictions), and this was the first of the bunch. The repeat is 4 sts wide and 16 rows long, but has a natural break [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I love spinning. I just haven’t hardly had the time to sit down when I wasn’t already exhausted. I can’t spin when I’m exhausted, so I have been spinning only rarely.
But I’m working on this:
For my birthday last year, Margene gave me 2 big bumps of Spinderella’s Thrums. I figured I’d better [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...This is the handspun angora/silk version of this scarf. I’ll be making another version of it in a commercial yarn (I’m leaning toward Dream in Color Baby) and release the pattern on about April 15th. The pattern for the handspun version is going out with the final offering for the Wooly Wonka Exotic [...]
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