by DesignerLynne | Apr 20, 2012 | Knitting, Mega Knitting, Projects, Techniques, Throw
Part One ~ Using Knitting Needles with Hooks I’ve been wanting to make this video for a long time, but amazingly, getting the fibre, the project and the weather to line up at the same time as finding a gap in the mountain of other tasks has taken a long time. The...
by DesignerLynne | Mar 16, 2012 | Cleaning & Processing, Fibre Tumbler, Picking, Scouring, Techniques, Tumbling
It’s a huge leap to make from buying yarn off the shelf to processing the fibre and making your own, but like most things in life, the rewards far outweigh the effort and anyway, what would you be doing with all that time? Spinning is usually the first step to...
by David | Mar 12, 2012 | Fibre Picker, Picking, Techniques, Tools of the Trade, Uncategorized, Video
And along comes the next instalment of the fibre processing video series – Picking the Fibre In my last post, I showed the first dry processing stage, using the fibre tumbler to shake the loose sand and grit out of the fleece. There’s still plenty more grunge to be...
by David | Feb 29, 2012 | Fibre Tumbler, Techniques, Tools of the Trade, Tumbling
I can smell Spring time in the air! Tiny patches of grass have been exposed along the paths in the snow, which is still about eighteen inches deep and although the temperature has swooped down to -12C over night, some tough little plants are poking through the soil...
by DesignerLynne | Feb 24, 2012 | Books, Techniques
You won’t find tons of cheap stuff being promoted on this website, we much prefer to keep the site clean and focused. However, a couple of things caught my attention recently and I was sufficiently excited by the one that I found today, to give it a mention...
by DesignerLynne | Feb 21, 2012 | Knitting, Projects, Socks & Slippers, Techniques
Yet another pair of socks? Until a couple of years ago, I had no idea there could be so many different ways to knit a pair of socks; in fact, it wasn’t until 2008 that I even considered hand knitted socks, but that’s another story. It seems that every day I discover...
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