Day 4. Owlet hexapuffs
Liz | August 4, 2014
A slightly more fruitful day. 4 more puffs for the collection.
Day 3 owlet hexapuffs
Liz | August 3, 2014
Sadly I didn’t like the colour of the yarn. Too much like snot I had great hopes for hexapuffs making until
Owlet hexapuffs
Liz | August 2, 2014
Today I spent far too long unhanking and winding to little balls prelude to knitting. It felt like a monumental waste of time. Of course this was also not aided by the ever helpful Maddie
World of wool
Liz | August 1, 2014
FYI world of wool have a bonus on their sales over 50 pounds!
Starting my tiny owls beekeepers quilt
Liz | August 1, 2014
I got some mini hanks.
Tiny owl knits beekeeper’s quilt
Liz | August 1, 2014
Many of you may have heard of the beekeeper’s quilt from tiny owl The instructions in her pattern are great, but, i wasnt so happy with the look of the hexapuff after. So, i stuck my logical brain on it.. Ok, principals of hexapuff Cast on Increase Decrease Stuff Cast off My alterations went as […]
The judgement is in
Liz | July 27, 2014
So, my yarn, all 210g, just over 7oz measures about 366.5m and comes proudly in at…. 14 wraps per inch, so is therefore a fingering weight yarn!! Go me!
Wildcraft fibres – summer sky
Liz | July 27, 2014
So. I’ve spun up 200g into singles so I had 2 bobbins then spun them together to make 2 ply. and when the remainder was spun up now I have 2 I haven’t counted wraps per inch or anything but it does look pretty even huh
Andean disaster number 2
Liz | July 25, 2014
Clearly I suck at this. From To To So far. No joy in sorting it out
Dyeing to experiment
Liz | July 25, 2014
Ok so I took a small hank and soaked it Started adding some drops of colour. Supposedly hot pink and violet Now given the amount of yarn those drops would have been enough in my days of cooking with mother. But no. I added about 6 more squeezes in each quarter There are some better […]
