I’ve been feeling pretty pooped lately, what with all my coming and going, so I took yesterday off to potter about. All the talk about Le Tour de Fleece enticed me to get my wheel out and before I knew it, I had this! It is New Zealand alpaca (white) plied with Irish sheep (brown)….
There have been a LOT of fibre related activities going on recently. Here’s some of what I spun yesterday and finished off plying today. On the left is some brown fluffy stuff I got from Craftspun at the last Knitting and Stitching Show and on the right is some of the light coopworth I brought…
Charmed Knits is written by our very own Alison Hansel, author of the Blue Blog. Tagged as Projects for fans of Harry Potter, this book does not disappoint! I ordered it, sight unseen, partially to support Alison and partially out of curiosity. I expected it to be full of kids knits and not much else….
No knitting to show today, and I will probably give Knitting Group in town a miss today too. How come? Well, yesterday I played in a piano competition and won a five-figure sum 😀 Today I am going to wallow in the glory and, to be honest, relief of having won. If I hadn’t won…