Acquisitions/Collection Curation
Having hand wound the bobbins on my sampler it was time to invest in a bobbin winder. I chose the Glimåkra 62M, which fits Ashford bobbins and the paper bobbins that fit both the shuttles that I have. I got it from Weaving Yarn Limited, which was cheaper than at other suppliers. The spike is tapered which is how it holds the bobbins in place.
Knitting
I finished knitting my Litmus Cowl in my baby camel and tussah silk handspun. These were some of my favourite colours from the Coastal Colours fibre advent a few year’s ago.
The pattern is free and very simple. A provisional cast-on, knitting round and round until it’s time to kitchener stitch it closed.
Spinning
I finished spinning and plying the merino and mulberry silk from World of Wool, called The Luminous Lagoon. I managed to fit 193g onto my jumbo bobbin when plying but couldn’t manage to squeeze on the last 5g.
Weaving
Rigid heddle loom
My three heddle sampler was finished, cut off the loom and I have twisted the fringe using my fringe twister gadget. I did publish a post with all the finished sections showing front and back. Here is a photo of it laid out front side and back. It is too long to take a photo of the whole thing in a strip. Since taking the photo its been washed and drying.
I have been having a look at 4 shaft patterns and going to have a go at converting one to do on my rigid heddle!
Other News
We watched quite a lot of curling this week. Because there were so many matches, we found fast forwarding to the last 3 or 4 stones of each end made it exciting and more manageable time wise.
I have also been rewatching ER. I loved it at the time and still do.
We went to see Crime 101 and then out for dinner on Thursday night, that made a lovely change. We both enjoyed it.
February is absolutely flying by, its hard to understand why January seems to go on for 6 weeks and February seems to last 6 days.
This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 15th year, but this is my 8th year participating. If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry, as you’d be very welcome to join us.
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