All Blog Posts Tagged 'hand' (4)

Seeing Purple (for quite a while now)

What started out as a small project for my newly adopted Poodle Sophia turned into a two-year marathon for my youngest daughter?

I vaguely remember how all of this started. In the beginning, I dyed some of my machine spun Shetland yarn to make a…

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Added by Teresa Gardner on July 11, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

Learning to Spin

Okay, I promised to tell you all how I came to be a spinner. I was reminded by a Spinning Daily post on the subject, and I don't have Nermal Duty today, so I'll see if I can fit this in. I was horrified to realize that these events happened more than thirty years ago!

My parents had a neighbor, a retired man named Mr. Hudson, who had a little "hobby farm" around the corner from them. He had grown up on a sheep ranch in Texas, and had acquired a pair of sheep for his little farm. I had…

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Added by Freelance on June 1, 2011 at 10:22am — 9 Comments

New Stroll Hand Painted

Have you seen the new hand painted colorways of Stroll sock yarn (formerly Essential)?

I had the great pleasure of designing them months ago, and I've been awaiting their release eagerly ever since. I had to place an order right away yesterday for the Make Believe color (along with a… Continue

Added by Melissa on July 16, 2009 at 7:55am — 15 Comments

A Weekend of Spinning and Washing the Results.

After spinning a whole lot this past weekend, I tried a new method of washing and setting the yarn. Before, I would have used a just a generic baby shampoo, but I had some Soak on hand so I decided to try that.

It was easier on my hands, but I worried that because of that, it wasn’t removing all of the dirt and grease from the fibers. And while, I did have to run it through 2 times ( I suspect my extremely hard well water), it did a nice job of… Continue

Added by terryekinch on October 27, 2008 at 12:07pm — No Comments