Category: spinning
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Spinning Workshop with Kim McKenna
Imitation: the Sincerest Form of Flattery September 20/21 in Prince George, BC Technological advances over the last few decades have rekindled our interest in the innovative fibres of the mid-twentieth century. Industry can now successfully manipulate a fibre’s surface texture, longitudinal shape, crimp, staple length, tensile strength and cross-sectional shape. But has it truly been…
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Piling Up
As warned my energy levels are dipping lower and taking longer to come back after each cycle, but I’m officially 3/4’s of the way through this challenge and the end is in sight, espcially since there will be no more delays. I’ve got the vials from the pharmacy and I begin the injections on Sunday to…
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Getting Ready
I’ve spent a couple of quiet days, resting and working on getting some inventory ready to ship for the show in September. There is now a box of hand dyed silk gimp yarn ready to go and this bucket of hand spun is on it’s way. I spent much of the afternoon weighing the skeins,…
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Lace Bookmark
It’s been months since I’ve done much bobbin lace. A couple of weeks ago I got a simple Torchon bookmark started and today I finished it off. We’ll meet again the end of August – perhaps I’ll get another bookmark started before then, although I have rather a lot of items on my to-do list. For…
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
Bought some batts from Jude Pilote of Ewesful Creations which arrived yesterday and I got inspired to set right down and start spinning. Today I plied the first bobbin using a black rayon with glitter. The glitter is a little stiffer than I’d hoped, but I still think the yarn turned out rather well. 🙂 Also…
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A Quiet Day
The morning went smoothly although the night was far too short and I’m tired today. After we left the clinic we went to get my driver’s license renewed before it expired on the 9th – I really don’t need to be dealing with re-writing my driver’s license right now! – and then to city hall…
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Working on the Stash
stash reduction proceeds On Tuesday afternoon I dyed the last 7 silk gimp warps and the last few skeins. Today one of those warps was dry enough to dress the loom and using one of the skeins dyed at the same time as the warp, I wove off the shawl. I think there are 13…
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Slow But Steady
A few years ago I bought a traditional style spinning wheel because I had fond memories of my first traditional. Unfortunately the wheel had a funky tensioning mechanism that relied on friction between the flyer assembly and a large metal ‘staple’. Which was fine – until the wood dried out and shrank and there was…
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Success
During Fibres West I managed to spin a couple of bobbins – the purple (River’s Edge Blueberry/Grape Juice) was spun off the fold. The green (Ashland Bay’s Mackenzie merino/silk) was core spun. Both were plied with mylar. The Mackenzie was plied with a mylar gimp; Juice was plied with a smooth supported mylar. Wet finished…