Tour de fleece

days 3 and 4

Yellow merino washed and skeined.

Started dusty rose merino 2oz 

I hope to get more time to spin a little more.

Tour de fleece ... second day

Tour de Fleece

Second Day

Finished spinning 2 Oz of yellow merino, and

chain plying.

I'm not used to spin small quantities so I though

chain plying would be fun.

First day of Tour de Fleece!

Getting Ready.

Here I got some merino to start spinning.

At the starting line and go!

I don't know much I'll spin but I'll try to post some more.
Wish me luck.

Stage 1

Google will stop supporting Vista....

I just received a notice this morning...

Google won't support Vista or OS for apple this really sucks.

I'm not ready to buy a new computers only to be able to get updates from Google, I'll simply stop using Google. This means I won't be posting on this blog or visiting blogs on this platform.

Thank you very much Google as far as I know Vista is still supported by Microsoft no reason to pull the plug so early.

Wind proof mittens

Winter is here...

It's been here for over a month but I didn't post anything after loosing my cat and I didn't feel really good for over 2 weeks.

It was time to pick up the needles and make something useful ... mittens.

Winter here is quite long and usually very cold and windy, mostly regular mittens don't keep your fingers from freezing.

Using some of my hand spun to make those mittens, pretty easy fair isle design no big deal but this wouldn't be enough to keep my hands warm.

There was a locks sampler that were waiting to get into some action.

It took me few tries and errors to find a good way to secure the locks at last it worked great.

Now I'm the proud owner of real wind proof mittens.

These locks will felt with wear and time making a nice warm and fuzzy lining.

 I'm ready to head out whatever this winter is bringing.

RIP Jules

May 2002 - December 11 2015

Aurevoir Jules.

Sweet and gentle cat you will be missed.

RIP

Will always keep you in my heart.

Baa-ble Hat

Usually I don't follow trends but this was too cute to not hop on the wagon.

http://www.shetlandwoolweek.com/free-knitting-pattern/

This is a free download.

My own version.

First of all when reading the pattern 96 increasing to 120 stitches was looking more than what I would normally do, I didn't want to modified the pattern, I didn't change to larger needles neither.

I have use John Arbon KBN56 for the ribbing and some of my own handspun for the background, leftover bouclé for the sheep with some black cotton.

Here is the resulting hat.

Fall in Sheep

It was nice but way too large so instead of unravel and redo I have opted for felting/shrinking it.

making it thicker and warmer, so I place it in a laundry bag and in the washing machine it went.

Now it fits perfectly.