October 2011

I've had some fun & a few setbacks with this, but it's finished & most definitely wearable. More than wearable - it's a pleasure to wear. Now I just need a couple more in different colours. That shouldn't be a problem as it is a quit knit when all goes smoothly. And here it is...

Sweet Afton Vest

The Sweet Afton Vest. Handspun by myself in British Milk Sheep. Spun semi worsted. Indigo dyed. 2 ply. 12 wpi. This was a 'test run' on the new to me Elizabeth saxony wheel I picked up this fall.

Oct. 22, 2011 was the Woodstock Fleece Festival. Once more it was a lot of fun & just full of colour, fleeces and ideas. I have been wanting to get my hands on some Suffolk fleece for spinning for mitts, etc. I came home with some as well as some Jacob, Clun Forest and Icelandic. I found some pygora that came home too.
Next year it is going to be held on Oct. 13, 2012.

Handmade Rugs in Texas

TVKim- Watching: Kim's Picks- The benefits of human-hand manufacturing

Wonderful to see it is still being done.

Some Knitting & Spinning

Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 found me at the KW Knitters Fair in Kitchener at Bingeman Park. Every year on the second Saturday in September the KW Knitters Guild has a very large gathering of vendors and a few classes. The day itself was a beautiful fall day & from what I saw the turnout was excellent.

The blue knitting in front left is super wash merino/tencel, lace weight, being made into a shawlette for a Christmas present. The lavender on the right front is being made into custom socks and they will have a lace cuff.

Back left is a single homespun in E. Friesian & mohair wool waiting to be knit into socks. Back right is some homespun done with domestic 56's from R. H. Lindsay wool merchant. It's a very soft carded sliver, one of several samples of sliver that arrived on my doorstep last week. I am spinning it with a short backward worsted draw. More on that later. I plan on two more spools yet.

Must get to work today - have to leave in a couple of minutes.