How nice to know that Bill's work will be continued by his apprentice!
Thanks for the info and congratulations on the planned new additions!
Julie
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Fibernetters,
What's new in Fiber - I have been corresponding with Myles J, the man who
apprenticed with the wheelwright Bill Wyatt until Bill's death last spring.
Given my original spot on Bill's waiting list (signed up 2 years ago), I may
be getting a Wyatt-Jakubowski Pegasus wheel
June,
The Pegasus is really beautiful - congrats!
...met someone last night who delivered twins that weighed more than 7 lbs
each, so that is my new goal!!
...and sending out good thoughts towards your meeting that goal.
Gwen S.
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Ron, The winter weather in UK and Europe has been in the news here in
the US. How much snow and cold do you have in Sweden? (Just looked at
weather underground, and discovered a wx map for Sweden.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/SN.html ( Is the coast of Norway
really around +40F? )
The
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Mary Bob Pratt -- Elihu Farm wrote:
Ron, The winter weather in UK and Europe has been in the news here in
the US. How much snow and cold do you have in Sweden? (Just looked at
weather underground, and discovered a wx map for Sweden.
Thanks to Holly and Jekka with their thoughts on my plying question.
Holly wrote:
In your particular situation, the only real
advantage to chain-plying is to get knitting
before you're finished spinning and plying :) And
practicing a new skill probably counts, too.
Yeah, well, let's
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
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
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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Still doing my thing at Fire Ant Ranch, although the flock has been gone
almost two years now. LOVING the new place and I actually have the space to
use that felting machine I got, although I have yet to produce a saddle pad
which was why I bought it in the first place! Doing about as much
Sorry, I'm behind with the thread/list. I just popped back home to clear the
computer of mail, collect a few supplies food/other so I found that
'fibernet' has awoken!
Happy New Year Everyone.
I am currently not at home, although I am not far away, a short 20mins bus
trip back to the
What a great question to get the list sparked off again! Thanks, Ron.
And happy New Year to all.
I've been REknitting a cotton sweater that's (ahem!) a Christmas present for
my best friend - who happens to be 6'3, and although not overweight, that's
still a lot of knitting. REknitting
Grace writes:
about the virtues of Navajo plying over regular
three-ply?
Advantages as I see them:
Can ply with just one bobbin or ball of yarn ready.
Closely related, lets you do a 3-ply from a
relatively small amount of fiber.
Don't have to worry about having bits of singles
left on two
Trying to stay warm in eastern NY.
We finally had to put all our sheep on feed. There's still hay aftermath
grazing under about 8 inches of fluffy snow. If the wind blows enough
away, we may be able to graze some more.
Lambs to market tomorrow, and maybe more next week, depending on what
they
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