What's new with me? Not much, fiberwise, although I enjoy reading about it.
Still mostly lurking on this list, but delighted to see it active again.
Fiver
Still ice-skating and doing a lot of volunteer activity for my skating club,
which hams a number of national contenders and at least two
Spinning, knitting, and weaving. Have an 8 shaft Mighty Wolf now, but still
just using 4 shafts. I've got a 3 year old kiddo and am up for tenure this
year, so I don't have much time for big projects. Mostly knitting lots of
socks, mittens, and other small things, weaving scarves, and spinning
The other question on chain-plying the llama is how it behaves at the
bends. I have found that some fibers are more malleable and chain-ply with
barely perceptable bumps (merino, for example), but that more wiry fibers
can be very stubborn and not want to bend that radically. I'd be a little
It's been really fun to see and read all the activity on the fibernet list
lately.
I'm gearing up to get heavily into spinning mode. I have a couple of nice
fleece to spin but what I really need to get to is a bunch of silk/merino that
needs spinning and dyeing so I can make some spring weight
Katy writes:
I have a couple of nice fleece to spin but what
I really need to get to is a bunch of silk/merino
that needs spinning and dyeing so I can make some
spring weight tops, etc. It's not my most fun
thing to spin but it does make a wonderful yarn
and fabric.
Do share more info
Jane, when I do granny squares, I don't sew them
together (though a whip stitch matching stitch for
stitch is pretty fast), I crochet them. I use
either slip stitch or single crochet while holding
the two squares right sides together. When I get
the first two of the row done, then I do the
But it's made of teeny little granny squares, and I fear
I'll never have the patience to sew them all together.
Wonder if it might not be possible to crochet them together?
With something similar to the three-needle (knit) bind-off?
Gwen S.
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