Just as the Secret Pal 12 comes to a close I have caved in and joined another Swap. SoSeSaSwa (Socktopus Secret Santa Swap) signups close today and I’ve signed up to make a sock kit for my partner.
Here’s my questionaire
1. What are your favourite colours and fibres? I love really rich colours – especially blues, [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 26, 2008
More Swappiness
September 24, 2008
Look what I’m making…
Well I have caved in to peer pressure and have picked up the drop spindle again. I had tried it a bit a few years ago when I joined the Guild on one of the Spinning skills days but never really got very far with it.
I had a chance a few weeks ago to do [...]
September 12, 2008
Woolly meets the Harlot!!!!!
Saturday was Fantastic (Ok so I’ve been really slow in posting, but I’ve been in Eastbourne all week without a computer I can blog on). I spent the day at the I Knit Day and went to the great talk by the Yarn Harlot and had her sign my books for me. We sang mysterious [...]
September 5, 2008
Another Dying Day
I spent the day dying on a workshop at Anne Of Cleves House in Lewes. It was a great workshop and I hope they will be running it again. We dyed lots of samples:
From top to bottom:
Weld (mordanted with Alum and Cream of Tartar)
Weld (mordanted with Alum and Cream of Tartar) modified with Iron
Weld (mordanted [...]
