Tag Archives: thick and thin

Project Review

I realized I’ve been leaving you in suspense over my purple sweater! It did get finished, and I literally had to take it to Colorado unblocked and block it in a friend’s washing machine, but it got finished. I wore … Continue reading

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Back In The Spin

My spinning has finally picked up again, and I’ve had a few minor victories that put me well on the road to happy spinning again. I finished the silk laceweight for my sister. And, while I was at it, I … Continue reading

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A Long Tail

It’s been over a month in the making and now the last tail is woven in. I present to you, the finished tam! (That’s the “tail” part of the title.) And here’s the “long.” I finally finished spinning the fall … Continue reading

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So Near And Yet So Far

Ta-da! It’s done. All the work and excitement has transformed into twenty-three ounces of light-worsted/worsted yarn. According to my calculations, that means that only nine ounces of weight washed out with the lanolin. As far as I know, that’s a … Continue reading

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Right There! I Can See It!

Look what is showing through my once-enormous pile of turquoise fiber. This is all I was able to make before running out of purple locks to stick into the thin single. Actually, I’m rather glad I ran out. It was … Continue reading

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As Yet Unknown

I have almost given up on finding a name for this yarn. It’s spun from the three colors of fleece, and it’s a very lumpy, funky, bumpy yarn. (My first stab at one ply thick and one ply thin.) I … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends

And now, for a general spinning update, and a chance to show off the projects that have been languishing in my closet due to an influx of other distractions (cough, cough, the Walking Wheel, cough) . . . Here is … Continue reading

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