19 posts tagged “spinning”
Free spinning demo, knitting and crochet clinic to be given by FiberTherapy.org at the Funky Finds Spring Fling!
Well, another newspaper article about our www.fibertherapy.org group ran again in one of the local papers. This time, it was on the front page of the Sunday edition of the Burleson Star! Let's hear it for free publicity!
We've had a good response from the articles. About four respondents have inquired about our group through our website after reading the article. I look forward to meeting the newcomers and adding a daytime group soon, to accomodate more fiber artitsts! Sometimes we have to spread out of our couch and chairs seating and over-flow to the table area. What a great problem to have!
Viva la FiberTherapy!
RM
Yes, I said that I had been crafting lately. Here's the proof. There are comments on each photo if you click them.
RM
By the way...I wove the background fabric on my loom. I thought it came out well for my first cloth of significant size.
These are really fun. This is the website for the free pattern: Saartje Knits I have one more to go for the pair.
I used my own handspun yarn for this...which makes me even more proud! Handknit on size 3 double points. They'll fit a 3-6 month old baby, probably...or a really chubby-footed newborn!
Hello to all my blog readers! I came back yesterday from a three day weekend at my friends Brenda and Howard's ranch. I sure had a good time AWAY from all the stay-at-home-momminess, but there is nothing in the world like your four year old running to you and squeezing tightly around your neck for ten minutes once you get home, either!
You can see some pictures of my weekend in my RM Misc. collection, or click on the thumbnail and go from there.
I cannot thank Brenda and Howard enough! The food and friendship was just spectacular...along with the view!
Texas has a brand new group of Fiber Crafters meeting just on the
southern Tarrant County Line in Burleson, Texas. (Just below Fort Worth
and Arlington)
Surrounding areas are Crowley, Joshua, Keene, Cleburne, Alvarado,
Everman, Arlington, and Fort Worth just to name a few.
We are going to welcome everyone who's into any 'portable' fiber craft,
such as:
Spinning
Weaving
Knitting
Crochet
Embroidery
Cross Stitch
Tatting
Lucet
Knotting
Punch Needle
Needle Felting
Rug Hooking
Inkle Loom
Beading
Etc....
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS 7:00-10:00 p.m.
at Mountain Mudd Espresso Cafe 108 S. Main, Burleson, Tx.
(Schedule and location subject to change as we grow. Check
www.recyclemicol.vox.com for updates.)
Directions:
Take the Renfro Street Exit (on your right) off of I-35 headed
towards Waco (will be two exits past Alsbury Exit)
Turn Right at the light Go straight a few blocks and when you cross
over the Rail Road tracks, you'll see a parking lot with the cool old
buildings of Old Town Burleson on your left.
Turn Left into the parking lot and Mountain Mudd is the third or
fourth building in the strip.
There are a number of good restaurants within a block of the coffee
shop, so come and eat before if you wish. (Babe's Chicken, Bar-B-Q,
Frisco's Mexican Resaurant and an old-timey Malt Shoppe)
That's just on the southern Tarrant County Line. (Just below Fort Worth
and Arlington)
Surrounding areas are Crowley, Joshua, Keene, Cleburne, Alvarado,
Everman, Arlington, and Fort Worth just to name a few.
If you're in the area, come join us!
-RM
This IS as soft and luxurious as it looks on the screen...I promise! Spun for Brenda who gave me some delicious roving in return.
I'm pretty pleased with the way my singles turned out when I plied them...or do you just call it a 'single' when it's all in
one continuous thread, being plied with itself? Hmmm...plural or singular...I don't know!
Anyway, here it is below. Ready for me to turn it into a pair of socks! I must pick up some Wooly Nylon to reinforce the heels and toes.
I also added two photos of my friend Brenda's yarn that I spun for her in my photos. It's the same roving in a sport weight. She so generously shared her roving with me, I told her that I would gladly share the results of my spinning!
What would YOU do? Leave these 650 yards of my handspun lace-weight singles as singles...or ply it against itself? I haven't knitted lace yet, but I want to learn. Then, I am in a sock knitting phase and it would be about sock weight if I ply it!
However, how many yards will I have left if I ply it? Will it be enough for an adult pair of socks???
Of course, if I sold it, I could have enough money for a ball winder...which would be excellent...because I am borrowing my friend Brenda's today and she'll need it back eventually.
Argh...I can't decide! I'll probably just do two at a time toe-up socks and then if I run out of yarn, I'll make them into footies!
My Great-Grandmother used to make a Dewberry Cobbler that was my favorite kind of cobbler in the world while growing up! She would pick the berries from wild Dewberry vines that grew along the road on fences on the way to their lake cabin in Texas.
This hand-dyed yarn's color reminds me of what might have come out of dying with the juices of those berries. In fact, I have had enough of the cobbler juice on my clothes as a kid to know that it is pretty close!!! The color in the photo isn't as purple-wine color as the yarn is in real life...sorry the photos are so dark!
One half of this fiber marriage is reclaimed cashmere yarn from a super-soft sweater! So, it's just luxurious! The second half is HAND CARDED and handspun Llama fiber. The llama is the part that makes this a boucle yarn. When washed after being plied, the cashmere shrinks and the llama forms bumps and loops. It gives a more subtle effect here than in the commercially made boucle, but it's just as interesting!
Well, there's the story of this Dewberry Cobbler yarn. I like to think that my Great-Grandmother would be proud!
This yarn is available in my Etsy shop. More photos there and in my Photos section.
Later!
RM
