Archive for February 2010

Spinning experiments

25 February 2010

When I bought my wheel back in April 2009, although I ordered a range of fibres, I got hooked on spinning dyed merino top because of the amazing range of colours available. With hindsight this… Read more

Competition time!

24 February 2010

I hinted about it last week and now I’m excited to be able to reveal the details… Stitch and Bitch London – my fantastic local knitting group – are running a competition to give away five… Read more

Acid dye experiments

18 February 2010

I’ve been experimenting this week with Procion MX textile dyes. I put a few different yarns in a dye bath and I’m amazed at the colour variation from the same batch! The superwash merino sucked… Read more

On and off the needles in February

9 February 2010

For a knit-blogger, I don’t often blog about what I’m actually knitting. I’ll do my best to address that! I’ve been quite productive so far in 2010, as well as knitting samples for new patterns… Read more

Stash monitoring

4 February 2010

If you’re reading via RSS on a feed reader you’ll need to in order to see some of the charts properly. Warning: This post is one for the geeks. I don’t mean yarn geeks or… Read more