Susan at Martha Vineyard Fiber Farm is having a spinner’s giveawy until October 11th in honor of her impending move. Go share you tales of moving joys and woes and win fibery goodness:
www.fiberfarm.com/2009/10/spinners-giveaway
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Spinner’s Giveaway
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged spinning, spinning giveaway on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Lace is On (the loom)!
Posted in lace, loom knitting, tagged homespun, lace, loom knitting, Markman Farm, saskia, shawl, wrap on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over on Ravelry, the Beginner’s Lace knitting group has just started to work on Saskia (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saskia). I have my homespun yarn to use up, so, what the heck! I though I’d give it a try on the loom. There are just single and double decreases and YO’s to deal with. I think it’s a pretty managable [...]
I made yarn!
Posted in spinning, tagged homespun, spinning, wool, yarn on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They grow up
What’s the Flap About, part 1
Posted in gusset, heel flap, loom knitting, socks, tagged heel flap, loom knitting, socks, wonderloom on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For this sock I used the Tulip Sock pattern at dalooms.com as the base pattern. I cast on 48 pegs on a FG mini wonderloom with a cotton wool blend (60/40 Serpendipity Tweed, striped coral root for those who care about such things). After doing 4 pattern repeats I had this:
The actual color is closer to [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged loom knitting, welcome on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey World!
I’m Kate– a perpetually curious person. Right now my curiosity is focused on homeschooling a pair of boybarians and loom knitting– especially on figuring out how to loom knit things that needle knitters have told me couldn’t be done on looms! Other past or pressent interests include science fiction, archaeology and anthropology, stained glass [...]
