May 17th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Jess at Milkyrobot has interviewed me on her blog here: Interview: Sarah from Parallax Knitting. If you are interested in my knitting, spinning and generally fibrous life, please check it out.
Author: Parallax Knitting
Tags: Fibre, flax, handspun, ideas, knitting, linen, spinning, yarn
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This is a series of questions Jess Rollar of Milkyrobot was kind enough to answer for me about spinning and her process. You can buy Jess’ yarns and fibre from her Etsy store (also called Milkyrobot). I have bought some, and please let me say that they are as wonderful as they look [...]
This yarn is very nice to work with. It has good memory and sheen, and feels wonderfully smooth to wear.
The only problem that I found with working with it is that it is prone to splitting and is easily damaged by the needles if you are not careful. For that reason, I would suggest that [...]
May 17th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I was in the Wool Emporium ordering my spinning wheel and Glenda mentioned that some people are growing flax in Saskatchewan for fibre already, and all they do to ret it is cut it down and let it sit under the snow over the winter.
That sounds like it can be accomplished. I was a [...]
and now I have put a down payment on a spinning wheel and it should be here in about ten days. I am so excited! You see, I may have put a bug in someone’s ear that what I really wanted for my birthday was money for a spinning wheel, and now I can [...]
I started digging the garden today in my quest for my own home grown flax:
I am quite tired now. I have spent practically my entire adult life living in apartments and am wimpy about digging. I figure that if I dig about this much every day left this week, I will be ready [...]
May 17th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Okay, so I was a little disheartened about the whole Christmas present sweater fiasco. I was so demoralized about having to undo the stitching and unraveling the sleeve caps (again) that I kept procrastinating on fixing the problem. Then my mother came to visit, and she suggested just pinning the extra fabric, stitching [...]
May 17th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I have finally convinced my boyfriend to take some better pictures of me in Lyra’s coat:
It is also just warm enough to actually wear it.
Author: Parallax Knitting
Tags: cardigans, Fibre, flax, free patterns, handspun, ideas, knitting, linen, patterns, spinning, sweaters, yarn
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May 15th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I got this yarn in the mail a couple days ago, but I haven’t had time to write about it yet:
It’s from Brooklyn Handspun, and it’s called Instant Gratification in the “Kinda Camo” colourway.
I am so happy with it. I have started swatching it, and it works up so smooth and my cables show [...]
May 15th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I have just finished reading Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years - Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber; it was wonderful and transported me through time to see the work all those women did making things to make their lives a little more beautiful. It appears to be out [...]