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Everyone has a kryptonite. There’s lots of different kryptonites, but I’m thinking more along the lines of the regular old green kind that just makes your superhero self weak and sweaty. When it comes to spinning and craft related things, my kryptonite is definitely in preparation. In particular using hand cards on their own. What’s [...]

Yes the cashmere is done and washed and dry now. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It turned out to be a good laceweight although I haven’t measured the wpi yet, I’m guessing it to be in the neighborhood of 35-40. It’s more even than I imagined it to be prior to washing [...]

Someone mentioned on the Spindlers list that Continental knitters tend to have purl rows that cluster together in twos on the wrong side of flat knit stockinette fabrics. Since I’m doing some flat knitting (the Icarus shawl) and I’m a continental knitter I had to inspect the wrong side to see if have the row [...]

I’m knitting the Icarus shawl from the Summer 2006 issue of Interweave Knits using the Shetland that I spun up recently. So far the progress is pretty good, I’ve made a few mistakes that have slowed things down, but nothing that has me ripping back (knock on wood) or completely stymied. I am so glad [...]

I’ve been spinning alpaca, some lovely rusty brown and some silvery gray that I ordered from Little Barn, the delivery time from Little Barn was speedy, arriving prior to Christmas, which gives me reason to think that my first experience with them was just a hiccup. For that, I’m really glad because their prices and [...]